Posts Tagged: london
Three Presentations: 3 September – 10 September
10/9 The state we are in today: L&Q (London & Quadrant)’s Jerome Geoghegan let us in on a few stats on the state of housing in the south east. It’s ambitious stuff. I was left thinking that the UK economy has two aces: London and North Sea Oil. Is that a reason to go indepenedent or to stay unified?
9/9 Looking Back: Lesley Riddoch handing out the Saltire Housing Design Awards at the Lighthouse in Glasgow. A couple of years ago these were often for second homes! For me, the cream of this years less divisive crop was:
http://www.cmcmarchitects.com/the-ramp-house/
http://fwparchitect.wordpress.com/about/
http://nordarchitecture.com/projects/westbourne-drive/
3/9 Looking Forward: HTA’s ‘Grow-Your-Own-Home’ is shorlisted in the Sunday Times Home of the Future Competition. You can vote for it (or one of the others) here:
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/public/british_homes_awards/
If we win it, they’ll build it.
11/9 Having breakfast in Hoxton, a chance to reflect on the above. My reflection is: it’s all very well listening to people talking about stuff, but I better go and do some work.
Working & Drawing 27 August 2013
Sketching in Spitalfields with the HTA London. A good turn out, a lovely evening and someone saw Gilbert & George. This always seems to happen round here. London is turning into Monaco: a safe haven for world money. The banks that process the cash eat up a little bit of historic character every few years, so we headed further east to review each other’s drawings.
The redevelopment of Kings Cross is much more successful. Less is lost. I’ve been watching this building going up for a year or so now. It’s by Chipperfield and has beautiful, textured, columns from Hargreaves Foundry.
John Gray, our Head of Production Information, came up from London to update our working drawings processes but before he got started we took him to the Whisky Society. A 19 year old Laphroaig was his preference.
Last week before holiday 14 July – 18 July
Start with a 10k
Sketching with HTA London at Smithfield.
Last train to Bracknell.
Other people’s events No 1 13 June 2013
In London for Site Match Scotland, linking Scottish cities with southern based developers. Good discussions with Dundee and Perth and some follow up needed for Edinburgh & Glasgow.
Kings Cross – 5 June 2013
Chipperfield’s Kings Cross building which looks a lot less smart now they’ve started sticking on the half round cast iron columns. Trying to plan ahead a bit for links with London.
MS didn’t come across that well!
Sketching at Kings Cross with HTA 29 May 2013
Sketching with the London office before a couple of beers and then a trip up to Derby. 
The big public space outside St Martin’s art school is quite harsh, though softened by the sound of the intermittent waterfalls. When the area is redeveloped, and it’s all quite high density and tightly packed, this space will seem supremely luxurious.
My fellow sketchers drawings are here:
http://www.hta.co.uk/news/posts/new-item-3
Looking for the Brunswick Centre 15 May 2013
I went out on a pleasant London evening to draw Patrick Hodgkinson’s inspiring Brunswick Centre, but ended up in the Marquis Cornwallis where there wasn’t much of a view of the building. I’ll go back some time when it’s less busy and I can get a seat in the window.
I’m told it’s made of brick, and that that was the end of Hodgkinson, but from looking at it I can’t believe it’s true…
HTA Tuesday Talks 14 May 2013
Ben talked about his role as Chair of the Housing Forum and, amongst other things, why house price valuations are misleading and the potential of self build…
Was that the summer 23/04/13?
“Ahhh Riche Monde” as Lucca used to say. He was right you know, it’s very pleasant down there. Tea by the Thames, on a lovely sunny London evening, outside the White Cross pub.
Stuffed shirts and their antidote 24/04/13
I was left a bit uninspired by the banality of the middle management working life and then Tim Crocker did HTA’s Tuesday talk and added a little inspiration.
www.timcrocker.co.uk
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