View fullsize More questions than answers at the moment. #sketchdesignsunday
View fullsize Great Michael Rise, Newhaven. Basil Spence, 1957, Category B Listed. The copper roofed pavilion beside the road was originally a grocery shop but now converted to a dwelling. Each flat has a south or west facing, angled, cantilevered balcony accessed
View fullsize Great Michael Rise, Newhaven. Basil Spence, 1957, Category B listed. Angled, cantilevered, in situ concrete balconies appear on most of the buildings in the scheme but it’s something else which struck me as groundbreaking for buildings of this
View fullsize Great Michael Rise, Newhaven. Basil Spence, 1957. Category B Listed. Full of inventiveness, ambition and playful design to create a mix of house types and solve developing the sloping, north facing site. A real joy compared to the majority of current
View fullsize Great Michael Rise, Newhaven. Basil Spence, 1957. Category B Listed. Full of inventiveness, ambition and playful design to create a mix of house types and solve developing the sloping, north facing site. A real joy compared to the majority of current
View fullsize Unable to attend the awards ceremony tonight in London, our Comely Bank project for @cabins_in_the_city is up for an @architectsjournal Award this evening. Excited and humbled doesn’t cover it……. #architecture #scottisharchitectur
View fullsize Spent an hour wandering around Sir Basil Spence’s Great Michael Rise in Newhaven. Completed in 1957 and now Category B listed, was absolutely blown away by the care, playfulness and originality of the housing scheme. Lots of photographs to foll
View fullsize The most useful app on my phone, “Sun Seeker”, allows me to see in real time the sun path on any day of the year from sunrise to sunset. The red line in the top right is the summer solstice, the blue in the bottom left is the winter solst
View fullsize Underground swimming pool anyone? #blueprint #architecture #edinburgh
View fullsize Delighted that our Comely Bank project for @cabins_in_the_city received a commendation in the Regeneration/Conservation category of the @eaa.edinburgh Awards last night. Thank you @eaa.edinburgh for recognising the hard work of our client and the col
View fullsize And we’re off….#curling #scotland
View fullsize Yakisugi. With a unique colour and texture, this is a traditional and ancient Japanese technique of burning the surface of timber to preserve it. Similarly in Britain, farmers have burnt the ends of fence posts to prevent them rotting. These planks
View fullsize I bloody love building sites. Repair, restore, reuse. The last shot is a doorway being built up using Georgian bricks taken down from a new door opening being formed elsewhere in the house avoiding using new concrete blocks with their high carbon man
View fullsize Copper and SkyFrame. A small extension below a breakfast terrace at the rear of a Category A listed Georgian townhouse in Edinburgh’s New Town. Beautiful detailing and lovely workmanship. #architecture #edinburgh
View fullsize @eaa.edinburgh announced the shortlists for their architectural awards today. Delighted to find out that our Comely Bank project has been shortlisted in the Regeneration/Conservation category. Up against brilliant projects, good luck to all the succe
View fullsize Not sure if I’ve ever been able to see one of our active sites from another one of our active sites before! A first in 30 years of practice! #architecture #edinburghnewtown
View fullsize Spic and span. Neat site. Neat work. Great progress on our New Town site. @truebuildltd Thank you.
View fullsize Inspired by Escher or the Cloud House by @petermorrisarchitects ? The full remodelling of the ground and basement floors of a converted Georgian townhouse is coming along well. All will be revealed! #architecture #scotland