Readers of this blog may remember several posts on a groundbreaking Victorian house refurbishment in east London (see links at the bottom of the post). Here’s the first part of a post-project review by the builder Dave Manby, looking at the key technical challenges he faced during the job
So we get to the end of [...]
For those of you eagerly anticipating news on the refurb of my house – which could well add up to the fingers on one or two of my hands, or in fact be zero – I have some news. The barrier preventing me from progressing has well and truly been shattered. That sounds quite melodramatic. [...]
So this is useful. I’ve been chatting with Simon McWhirter from the Great British Refurb Campaign for the past couple of weeks. His outfit has just published a very useful comparison page on the green refurb policies of the big three parties. Only just looking at it now myself so let’s not make any snap [...]
Spring is here. Time to get over our post-Copenhagen hangovers and kick back into action. Ecobuild starts today and, more significantly we have the introduction of the Pay as You Save policy by the Government. I’ve only seen early new reports on this, such as in the Telegraph, so we’ll have to see the detail. [...]
After what fellow blogger Mel Starrs described yesterday as “a funny old week” involving a range of heated discussions it was refreshing to hear from a man of action. Step forward then Cameron Sinclair, co-founder of Architecture for Humanity, who gave a lecture last night at the RSA. Sinclair’s work, which was described by RSA [...]
More Jonathan Meades from his BBC 4 show Off Kilter on Scottish architecture. His words are fitting for the whole of the UK:
There is of course a bien-pensant constituency whose stupid knee-jerk reaction to modernism of the 60s and 70s is it can’t be any good so why not blow it up… and why not [...]
