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GUEST BLOG BY ANDREW MALBON – FIVE ARCHITECTS

We are delighted to welcome our first guest blog, someone who has become an enormous, supporter, critical friend and I might even suggest a patron of Studio B.a.d. Andrew is a hugely talented architect and photographer documenting Southsea in all its glory! Challenging times for us all & opportunities for extended photography trips have been very limited, so naturally this has led me to look a little closer to home. I'm lucky enough to work in a studio within a…

OGLE ROAD – SOUTHAMPTON FEASIBILITY STUDY

M I X E D U S E D E V E L O P M E N T Studio – B.a.d where appointed by GO SOUTHAMPTON in Dec 2019 to undertake a strategic over view of No 2 Ogle road, the brief being to look at a whole host of mixed uses, from co working, café, tourist Information , cultural and arts venue, retail and a space for the GO Southampton team. The design strategy has been to review and respond to …

URBAN LECTURE NO 3 – ‘GROWING CREATIVE COMMUNITIES’

So on Tuesday 07 April we along with GO Southampton delivered our third in the series of Urban Lecture. Now that life has changed somewhat we did not want the barrier of been confined to our homes to limit our ability to continue the debate around Urban City living and the future of public realm in Southampton. On Tuesday evening with the expert help of Gemma at GO Southampton we switched to Zoom and and 35 people join us. We had three key lecturers this…

URBAN LECTURE NO 2 – CITY AS URBAN ROOM

On Tuesday 03 March we delivered our 2nd Urban Lecture in collaboration with GO Southampton - 'City as Urban Room' at the Barclays Eagle LAB with the expert input of Rupert Cook Director of Architecture PLB and Piers Taylor of Invisible Studio. Rupert delivered a deeply rich insight into his family ties to Southampton and an insight into the design process for the recent Sports building for Solent University, which draws on the rich Urban grain of previous City layouts. Piers gave a wonderfully inspiring…

INVISIBLE STUDIO – PRACTICE FILM – By Laura Mark + Jim Stephenson

On Thursday 12 March we where invited to the screening of Invisible studios new film ' Practice' created and delivered by Laura Mark and Jim Stephenson which is a wonderful insight into Piers Taylor's thinking, practice and methodology as new way to practice. The link is below, so when you have a moment take a look. https://vimeo.com/394381124

RetroFirst: Is the heritage sector adapting to reuse?

Architects have welcomed calls by Historic England to slash VAT on retrofit, but warn that barriers to reusing buildings still remain. Richard Waite reports in the Architects Journal. We gave our thoughts on how reuse, and re imagining existing buildings needs to be assisted with joined up thinking by government agencies. COMMENTS Darren Bray, director, Studio B.A.D Architects Those of us who feel passionate about reuse and reimagining existing buildings for our clients in light of the climate change emergency face challenges each week on a whole…