DIGBY HARRIS WINS GEORGIAN GROUP AWARD

Francis Johnson & Partners have received the Giles Worsley Award for "Best New Building in a Georgian Context". The new building was Home Farm in Hartforth, North Yorkshire, which replaced an existing farm house but retained the surrounding farm buildings. The award was presented to the principal architect, TAG member Digby Harris, by HRH the Duke of Gloucester at Christie’s, London, on 4th November 2009. Also present was the client, Sir Josslyn Gore-Booth, Bart., who was greatly involved with the design of the house. The Gothick style was chosen for the new house in order to avoid competing stylistically with original Classical principal house of the Hartforth Estate which is now a hotel. The entrance front, however, is designed in a severe Palladian idiom. At the centre of the house is an elliptical cantilevered stone staircase under a Gothick dome

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New Palladians: Modernity and Sustain-ability for 21st Century Architecture by TAG Chairman Alireza Sagharchi and Lucien Steil. It shows how, at the outset of the 21st century, classical and vernacular traditions are flourishing as a modern phenomena, practiced by a wide spectrum of architectural firms, scholars, students, universities and institutions. The book features the latest architectural and urban projects from fifty of the most important classical architects in the world today.

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THE FUTURE OF ARCHITECTURE

Traditional Architecture is a body of knowledge and design technique, created by the experience of our predecessors. In order to face the problems of our times in shaping our cities, providing a good quality of life for all and conserving resources for the future we now need the Traditional approach more than ever. Traditional architecture represents the only really viable long term future for architecture

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Part L and the Code for Sustainable Homes

"It will become impossible to do traditional style and satisfy the regulations. TAG must work out a strategy for this in a practical rather than theoretical way."
Francis Terry RIBA
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Plea to Hypno-therapist to treat Modernistphobia

Dear Corinna, I would like to book a session to deal with my inability to deal with the modernist built environment. I have lived with this issue since I was seven years old

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New RIBA head calls for new award for buildings that last

Newly-arrived RIBA head Harry Rich is pushing for a new award to be given to buildings that remain successful several years after completion
He said: 'Inevitably a lot of the good awards we have around at the moment tend to focus on aesthetics

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Why do we build cavity walls?

Britain is probably the only country in the world that does not as a rule build solid masonry walls. The original idea was to avoid a transfer of water to the inside of a building by having the "cavity" between two skins, but now we fill it up with insulation surely defeating the object. The construction results in the abomination of stretcher bond everywhere ...

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STANHOPE GATE COMPLETES NEW
RESIDENCE IN BIDDA

This project recently completed by Alireza Sagharchi of Stanhope Gate Architecture and Urbanism involved design of a new build residence in the classical language. All the main architectural components are hand carved in natural Egyptian limestone. The façades are otherwise rendered. The roof is made in copper with bronze reeded panels with antifixae, and anthemion decorative elements along the cornice bands. The entry tower is composed of a series of pillars and engaged pilasters surmounted with copper roof panels.

NEW GATES AT WENTWORTH WOODHOUSE, WENTWORTH BY JAN MACIAG

22 February, 2010
Consent is being sought for the erection of new stone and iron gates at the Octagonal Lodge entrance into the Park at Wentworth Woodhouse. The great house at Wentworth, with its 365 bedrooms, was the result of many years of building activity including the contribution of Flitcroft and Carr of York.
The chosen architectural style and configuration is one that hints at old and mysterious origins whilst addressing the pragmatic requirements of asymmetry and contemporary usage. The design of the gate piers is in the “artisan Mannerist” baroque of the late 17th or early 18th centuries. It suggests a now lost function for this entrance even though its architectural form remains.
The proposed design for the new gates and piers is in the spirit of an anonymous architect/master builder working for either the 2nd Earl of Strafford or the 1st Marquess of Rockingham to designs and ideas he was vaguely familiar with from Jones or Wren and wishing to emulate. It could, equally, be the work of Henry Flitcroft in a Baroque interlude of joyfully shifting scales such as he displayed at Woburn Abbey or St Giles. Its main idea is that of a square central element (the metal gates) flanked and supported by lower arched elements and oversized scrolls.
The rusticated piers are attenuated ionic pedestals that rely on the other elements both for visual support and cohesion. The concept of a wide central opening for vehicles and two smaller side openings has origins in the Roman triumphal arch as well as the Holbein Gate, London (1532). As mentioned above, the scrolled flanking elements have roots back to S M Novella, Il Gesu and Inigo Jones’ design for the west front of St Paul’s cathedral. The same device was employed by Christopher Wren at Temple Bar, London

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CIVIC TRUST AWARD FOR NEW HOUSE BY NIGEL ANDERSON

A new house in Wiltshire designed by Nigel Anderson has been awarded a Commendation by Salisbury Civic Trust New Building Award Scheme 2010.  The replacement house set within mature gounds, is a compact building with a cruciform plan and relates to the framework of the existing gardens. The Society's report noted "..(it) achieves its impact without any slavish copying of earlier styles".

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WESTMINSTER APPROVES ROBERT ADAM MODERN CLASSICAL HOTEL

22 February, 2010
Robert Adam’s classical design for modern Base2Stay hotel concept has been approved by Westminster Council.  This is Robert's first hotel design in the UK and it was described by Westminster Council's Planning Committee as "..not a replica of what was there before but it's a nice restrained neo-classical design". The five storey hotel terminates an important Soho vista. It will be built from natural stone and the dramatic double-height entrance includes a gilded statue.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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