Guidance on How The Design Review Panel Evaluates Quality in Architecture & Urban Design
By good design we mean design that is fit for purpose, sustainable, efficient, coherent, flexible, responsive to context, good looking and a
The Design Review Panel’s Eye for Detail: “Your design’s a wow.”
Architects can be as rare as doctors in some council areas and speak for only 12% of the £7.14trillion national housing stock., as post-war
"Diary of an independent Urban Design consultant …” or “What am I doing here?”
I set up Urban Design Box Ltd 18 months ago; giving up being a Director at a respected multidisciplinary to gamble my career and self-esteem
Why we should all be building to the Passivhaus standard?
I don't think low energy use and running costs are features we should reserve for those who ask, it should be something we offer to all
Project 'Clock Face'
Being a war memorial, the Grade 1 Listed church clock has a communal value within the Parish and signifies a collective experience and memor
The real life problems of achieving good, large scale, housing design.
"In recent times I have been considering the problems in real life of achieving good large scale housing design, particularly from the
Design with nature for a natural high
... there is increasingly persuasive evidence that shows that good quality greenspace and nature in general can have a positive effect on ho
BIM for Landscape: Case Study Lancaster University Management School by LT Studio Landscape Architec
At the close of 2015, LT Studio Landscape Architects won a competition to design the landscape for a new 19,000m² campus project at Lancaste
Historic Stone Conservation - Apsley House
Cardiff based practice, Davies Sutton Architects, embraced the philosophical and technical challenges presented of managing such decay mecha
The value of design and how to create a ‘pipeline of talent’
It is often difficult to describe the value of design – not only with a focus on the economic advantages but also with regard to the increas
