E-News | Summer 2019 No Images? Click here Push-Pull HouseRECENTLY COMPLETED: A cross-laminated timber and brick family home connected to the leafy, mature garden. The design ruptures the volume of a traditional pitched house, pulling it in three parts and cracking open the roof to pour light into the heart of the home. Make room for natureRECENTLY COMPLETED: The Hilltop site at RHS Garden Hyde Hall has become a hub for enjoying and learning about how we can nurture our natural world, and a space to inspire the gardener in all of us. Maggie's Newcastle GrowsIn September we will be taking part in two events to raise money for Maggie's Cancer Care Centres: the Great North Run and the Maggie's Culture Crawl. All donations welcome! In 2013 we completed a Maggie's in Newcastle. Since opening, Maggie's Newcastle has had over 100,000 visitors, making it one of the busiest Centres in the UK. Subsequently, this is the quickest since opening that a Maggie's Centre has needed an extension. This July we received planning permission to grow Maggie's Newcastle by a third to provide additional support spaces, meeting rooms, a new courtyard and an extended roof garden. Recent Publications
Rethinking OwnershipThe UK government’s “war on housing shortage” simplifies a complex problem in order to incentivise home ownership at all costs. However, this policy project ignores evidence that cultural norms, perceived status, interest rates and the land market may be more significant than supply alone. This has implications for the long-term value of housing design - value which architects know exists but which we struggle to sell in a market distorted by the current institutional system. To interrogate these factors, we invited a “Look, no architects!” panel to test the boundaries between homeownership and design outcomes as part of the 2019 London Festival of Architecture. Give a healthy smileTo celebrate Employee Ownership Day this year, we supported the Employee Ownership Association in their 40th anniversary appeal to Give a Healthy Smile to 4,000 children in the UK by helping to raise money through donations for seedlings from our Islington in Bloom award-winning canalside garden. If you are interested to know more about employee ownership, read this RIBA Journal Intelligence piece written by our RIBAJ Rising Star, Sahiba Chadha on how working as a cooperative brings creative as well as business benefits. RA Summer ExhibitionThis week is your last chance to see the 2019 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (closing 12th August) in which we have three artworks: 1. Maggie's Newcastle Grows, 2. The Therapeutic Landscape: A sectional model of Alder Hey Children's Hospital Community Cluster and Dewi Jones Residential Care Building, and 3. Straight from the Wood (pictured above). Out of the office...Coming up:
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