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Our top tips to thrive working from home

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Who knew that working from home could be quite pleasant? Here are our top tips to make it so.

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Sketchbook Chronicles N.004

– Kamikatsu: the zero-waste town in Japan. – Making household concrete objects with Mexican studio ‘En Concreto’. – The Viscaya Transporter Bridge. – New and old building technologies.

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The RIBA House of the Year winner 2019: House Lessans

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A bow to simplicity and values rooted in maternal landscapes, House Lessans is the winner of the RIBA House of the Year 2019 award.

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Sketchbook Chronicles N.003

– Architecture with a social spin: an initiative for a school in Guatemala from Architecture Sans Frontieres. – The ancient craft of hand-blown cylinder glass. – Natural materials for the future: environmentally friendly engineered wood and hempcrete introducing hemp to traditional co …

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Sketchbook Chronicles N.002

– Handmade origami paper-lamps made by the RISE creative team. – Carbon-zero London architecture at Ted Cullinan’s house in Camden Mews. – Translucent walls made of polycarbonate materials.

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Sketchbook Chronicles N.001

– A walk around Walmer Yard to boost our passion for architectural details. – The Living Architecture initiative: Peter Zumthor’s villa introduced us to this idea by Alain de Botton from the School of Life. – RISE Rusted Lamp: a wink to our Brexit Bunker.

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Passivhaus residential architecture: learning from Goldsmith Street

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The Goldsmith Street council housing scheme in Norwich is a gem of contemporary architecture, a precedent for the direction architecture should take as it wades through the challenges presented by today’s world. More than just a pleasant place to live, the scheme stands up to housing …

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Looking back at 2019

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Happy New Year to all our clients and followers. We finished some really exciting projects in 2019, two of which were shared widely online due to coverage from some of the architecture and design world’s top websites. Douglas House, an extension of a terraced house in Kensal Rise in L …

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Architects Declare: the climate emergency and why it is more important than ever to think about sustainable architecture

Architects and the climate emergency

Why the climate emergency is a crisis, and not just a concern:

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Terrace houses in London: a brief history of the most iconic British home

Venice canal houses RISE Design Studio

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