Planning tips #1-7: Roundup
I peaked a bit too early on this one when I mis-scheduled the posts. Anyway, here they all are in one post: Below are all the recent Planning Tips we’ve posted over the last week (or so) 1. Don’t Participate Read More …
Expert witness
Planning Tip #3 – Maximise your Exempted Development rights
I guess this is a combination of the two planning tips posts on ‘Don’t Participate’ and ‘Utilise an existing building’ and that is to be clever about maximising your Planning Exempted Development rights: Exempted development is development for which planning Read More …
New Years Resolution : More commercial work. @paulmknally mentioned
Over the last year there were a couple of non-residential, commercial projects that I thought “Yes, I could have done that one”. In much the same way that an actor sees the roles that he could have done better [than Read More …
MarkStephensArchitects.com 2014 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 110,000 times in 2014. If it were an exhibit at Read More …
3 new houses for 2015 : Are you looking for an architect in West Ireland? #Upturn?
Maybe (maybe) finally the economy is on the turn and it’s great news that the Government is looking into amending the Building Regulations (again) to allow self-builders to construct their own homes – which is incidentally a large percentage of Read More …
Currently working on high-end UK residential projects in #Vectorworks #BIM
As well as undertaking my own projects I also provide outsourcing work to UK architects & clients using Vectorworks; the project below is for a UK project I am currently working on: But I can’t see very much? I hear Read More …
De minimis lex non curat – The law does not concern itself with trifles (thanks to @paulmknally)
A little bit of Latin for a monday morning: De minimis lex non curat – The law does not concern itself with trifles But what does this mean in the context of architecture, planning and construction? I’m called upon everyday Read More …
TeachPassiv.com is launched. New #Passivhaus website
Welcome to a new website dedicated to Passivhaus design, construction and methodology combined with architectural excellence from Mark Stephens Architects. CLICK HERE FOR WWW.TEACHPASSIV.COM Why TeachPassiv.com ? Teach: Verb (English) 1. To impart knowledge of or skill in; give instruction Read More …
Architect as… witness…
This is one of the ‘Architect as…’ posts I’ve been doing on an irregular basis. To see the rest either search for ‘Architect as’ in the right side bar or CLICK HERE… I’d written previously about Mark Stephens Architects as Read More …
I've just earnt my RIAI Architectural Practice Accredited in Conservation 'badge'…
A little bit like Scouting badges, I’ve just received the latest one from the RIAI as an architectural practice accredited in conservation (badge below): You can read more about these new RIAI marks HERE There’s a few more badges still Read More …
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