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Big sky and Big horizon ‘hovering between the two’

Our competition entry for a project in Norfolk

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from CRAB

We are very happy to announce planning approval for our @inspiredAUB Innovation Studio !

Finally received our RIBA National Award 2016 Plaque for our Drawing Studio Collecting the award with our lovely client Tom Marshall

Busy on our street

Pretty autumn night in the Drawing Studio

photo credit: Western Design Architects

our Taiwan Tower scheme from 2011 Presenting to the jury in Taichung___ top 4!!

SIR PETER COOK BARTLETT LECTURE SERIES OPEN TO ALL!

October 13 - Creative cynicism and the cheerful response October 20 - In defence of the big personality November 10 - Small cities are more fun (so long as you don’t have to live in them) November 24 - Competitions - the big lie December 1 - Provinciality - the comfort zone December 8 - British biscuit architecture - British inventive architecture: the 80 year cycle

Time : 1pm

Location: Bartlett, 22 Gordon Street, London, WC1H 0QB

In a way, the series itself is weird : collecting evidence that suggest that Architecture is far from being a comfortable progression of predictable situations. Rather, it lurches from the circumstantial to the Heroic; from the coincidental to the Absurd; from the boring to the Piquant : after all, it is the product of those most fallible creatures : Humans.

The series deliberately ranges over very different zones of observation : Current AND selectively historic (mostly post-industrial phenomena). It will sometimes deal with the dilemmas facing Young Architects, sometimes deal with Magical Moments that I have witnessed, sometimes consider the paradox of creativity emerging out of Chance.

Suspect thoughts -coming from the lips and eyes of a so-called ‘Academic’ who has always considered himself to be a designer who slipped into teaching – and then found himself (not without delight) as a building architect . Now enjoying the luxury of being able to slither in-and-out of contexts – hoping that this approach can jolt the listener/viewer into a DISCOMFORT ZONE amongst so much architectural culture that is too tight.

Photo credit : Richard Stonehouse