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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…

OCTOBER BOOKS SHORT LISTED FOR RICS SOCIAL IMPACT AWARDS

We are delighted that October books has been shortlisted for the RICS social impact awards. The RICS Social Impact awards,recognising the built environment's positive and transformational contribution to society. We would like to thank the wonderful team, who played a part in the success of reimagining October books in their new home, our wonderful client, Darcy construction, Mesh Energy, RJ Watkinson and all of the local community, raised funds through cord funding and loan stock. The RICS awards showcase world class examples of how the…

ST MARGARETS CHURCH PROGRESS – MEANWHILE DESIGN APPROACH

At St Margaret's Church we have been developing a strategy that deals with the here and now, as far as the communities requirements are concerned, as well as having one creative eye on what we might speculate on for the future of the church. So as well as our long term development strategy, we where asked to undertake a small piece of joinery, which we have treated as small piece of furniture. Something that becomes the 1:1 test bed model, for what might come next.…