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Build It ‘Extensions Ideas for Adding Value’ article

Build It magazine invited Darren to share his expert advice on how to add value to your property by introducing an extension. The full article looks at how with the right design, a well-designed extension can significantly enhance a property, adding value and improving functionality. Holly Cottage is featured as one of the showcase projects within the editorial, highlighting how including future proofing into a design can add long term benefits in terms of value.   Here we share the 'Expert Q&A' with Darren, to…
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Planning success

We are pleased to have secured planning for a new Girl Guides Hall for the Portswood area of Southampton, Hampshire. Our sensitive design will create a new hub for the local Guides Association, to enable them to promote outdoor based actives for young people in the city, on the site of a previously demolished hall. We now look forward to working with the client to secure funding and deliver this wonderful building in the heart of the City, you can read full details about the…
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RIBA MacEwen Award longlisted

We are so proud to have our St Lukes project included in this years longlist for the RIBA MacEwen Award, the annual awards that recognise architecture for the common good. The project has redevelopment the tired church hall to create The Host Café, a community cafe and multi-functional space which has become a vibrant local focal point, hosting events throughout the day and evening. In total 30 projects have been longlisted in the MacEwen Awards, you can see the full list here, the shortlist will…
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Celebrating Six Years

In celebration of our six years in business, and as a reflection of how the business has evolved, we have written and published a new practice profile which we launched last week at an evening with clients, collaborators and friends. We set up Studio BAD to deliver architecture without ego, to use our design skills as a vehicle of positive change. The idea of re-use has always been central to our ethos, in an era where climate change defines our lives it is important to…
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Our Design Commitment

Studio BAD are celebrating our sixth year in business, over this time the business has evolved and what we, as a design collective, stand for has adapted. We are enormously proud of what we have achieved over this time, the projects we have worked on and the clients we collaborate with. As part of this reflection we took a moment to analysis and redefine what Studio BAD stands for, uncovering six essential aspects of our design practice. These six strands are so important to us…
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Contemporary extensions within a conservation area

Homebuilding & Renovating Magazine asked Darren to share his expert opinion to answer a key question they had been asked by many of their readers; can you have a contemporary extension to my house within a conservation area? You can find the article appeared in the December edition of the magazine, or read it here. Generally speaking, yes you can. Having a home located in a conservation area does not mean you have to be stuck in the past with the architecture of any additions…
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