Archinect - Features

Why do we forget to look back when trying to move forward?

2017-06-28T04:45:00-04:00

I have recently become a trustee of the Turn End Trust, an organisation which conserves, protects and maintains one of three Grade II listed houses designed and built in the 1960’s by the architect Peter Aldington, in the Buckinghamshire village of Haddenham.

When a building is not the answer

2017-05-17T06:31:00-04:00

In between the rush from here to there, have you noticed that we’re living in the ‘inbetween’?

While technology enables unprecedented levels of connectivity and inclusion, fragmentation abounds as our sense of community, belonging and traditional business models are turned on their heads.

Buildings Need to be Curated; Collaboration With Other Fields Is Vital to an Era of Experience

2017-02-24T01:00:00-05:00

Look around. What is it that makes you most happy? Is it the mountain bike, or is it where that mountain bike takes you? Out amongst nature, wind in your face, exploring newfound tracks. Without this, the experience, it would simply just be a steel frame with wheels, sitting in a rack.

It’s the same with buildings or places. Without activation and life, they are just mere bricks and mortar or concrete structures, static in nature.