Friday site visit slideshow round-up
Here’s a slideshow of a few projects currently on site taken this week:
galway
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Attributed to Winston Churchill and then (in)famously said at a 2008 Wall Street Journal Forum by Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel: “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” Heres’ the YouTube clip if you’d Read More …
Projects on site catch-up
Following up on A whistle stop tour of projects under construction here’s an up to date catch-up slideshow on ‘where we’re at now’:
The Process
I’ve been thinking about this one for a while and it was reading through ‘the process’ of Bernbaum-Magadini Architects that I thought it would be a help to potential clients to see each stage and what is required and to Read More …
A flurry of planning applications granted in same week, this is what they look like…
A wonder what the plural of planning applications is? Well I’m calling them a flurry and we’ve had 3 granted in same week this week. Below is a summary of each project together with the accompanying YouTube animation: 1. Contemporary Read More …
Match or contrast, or maybe something in-between?
There’s always the dilemma with extending an existing property over whether the extension should match the existing or contrast with it. How does the architect decide? Which is best? The answer invariably comes from the client; it is their personal Read More …
Where I work, how to find an architect & I can't be everywhere so who else would I trust?
The work of an architect tends (unless you’re a starchitect) to be fairly locally based. But saying that it’s still surprising the spread that the working is taking on; with most of the projects centred around the county I live 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 …
Conservation Reports for Planning Applications & mention for @HouseHistorian
Currently I’m in the process of writing two Conservation Reports for projects in Galway and Mayo and I’m surprising myself at how much I’m enjoying them. The Planning Application process for a Protected (Listed in UK) Structure in Ireland is Read More …
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