All it needed was a bit of fertiliser! #Sedum #Grass #Roof

Following on from THIS POST on the care I’m putting into my sedum grass roof; this is a quick update on the power of fertiliser! Here’s the roof in June when the fertiliser went down – as you can see Read More …

Our #Sedum #Grass #Roof update

I wrote about the concern we had with our grass roof looking very red HERE; it was in fact flowering! The photographs below were taken this morning (hence darkness prior to sunrise) and the roof is now slowly turning back Read More …

Update on our other grass roof…

Following yesterdays post on the sedum roof on the shed, below are a couple of photographs showing how the intensive grass roof over the underground section of our own house is faring. All I can say is that I wish Read More …

Intensive or Extensive #Grass #Sedum #Roofs We have them both: @greenroofsdirec mentioned

The faithful reader (follower) will have noticed the photos I’ve been uploading on our new shed which has an Extensive grass roof. The house we designed and constructed in 2004/6 also has a grass roof but instead is the Intensive 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 …

The Facts of Life (for architects) #1

A long overdue post continuing the series on ‘The Things they don’t teach at architect’s school’: In case you’ve missed them, here are the previous posts: Most projects don’t go ahead Architecture is War! The architect is translator/interpreter The architect Read More …

My day in court as architect and expert witness…

Some of you may have seen my recent tweets today concerning being a witness in a District Court case. I don’t want to go into too much detail, suffice to say that is was related to property between an estranged Read More …