Annular Archive – Places – Britain – South East England
2018The battle for the People’s Pier and dRMM’s part in Hasting’s regeneration aspirations
In Unstructured extra 9 CLT futures themed edition – 2018
2018CLT and 21st century Arts & Crafts, Adam Richards Ditchling Arts & Crafts Museum, DugganMorris Alfriston Swimming Pool, FeildenFowles and Roz Barr Architects
In Unstructured extra 9 CLT futures themed edition – 2018
2018Broadening the timber palette with their Lewes Road student housing, Brighton project
In Unstructured extra 9 CLT futures themed edition – 2018
2017FCB Studios completion of the Art & Design Building illustrates the changes in sustainable architecture two decades after their Olivier Theatre rewrote oak framing’s rules
In Architecture Today– Feb 2017
2014EcoTech revisited: WWF’s One Planet Centre
Erstwhile high tech studio Hopkins Architects diagrid eco-office headquarters for the World Wildlife Foundation
For Detail Green2. 2014 November
2013The wave of gridshells across Britain by WilkinsonEyre, Glen Howells, Edward Cullinan Architects, and others, illustrates how the singular structural form has been embraced by UK architects and engineers
Feature for Detail Green May 2013
2012Sweet Chestnut creates a contemporary design aesthetic
Baker-BrownMckay’s use of Sweet Chestnut cladding makes its sustainable point
2012Sweet Chestnut as a building material by David Saunders
In Unstructured 5 – 2012 – Rewilding the Structural, Reweaving the Sculptural – Shells/Scales/Baskets/Weaves Sussex Gridshells ten years themed edition
2012Cluster – Anne Marie ‘O Sullivan’s art-shell basketry experiments with sweet chestnut timber
Fabrica, Brighton 2012 exhibition marking the Sussex Gridshell’s the tenth anniversary. This exhibition was conceived and first developed by Fourth Door Research
In Unstructured 5 – 2012 – Rewilding the Structural, Reweaving the Sculptural – Shells/Scales/Baskets/Weaves Sussex Gridshells ten years themed edition
2011How Massive Wood Came to Britain
The story of how a few mission driven sustainability architects, engineers and left field timber folk propelled CLT into the UK’s construction sector
In Detail Green 2011.1 Spring
2009Farewell to the local saw-mill
The disappearance of part of the traditional timber fabric – by John Russell
In Fourth Door Review 8 – 2009 – (this article is not available in Annular Archive)
2007Gridshelter Futures III – Growing Flimwell’s Woodland Enterprise Centre’s modular ribbed shell
FeildenClegg’s adapted ribbed-shell highlighted the local weald wood, chestnut, spurring local its uptake as construction material across the South East of England
In Unstructured 2 – 2007 (a version of this piece appeared in Building For A Futuremagazine, Autumn 2001, Volume 11, no 2.)
2007Gridshelter Futures II: the Weald & Downland Museum gridshell
The first Gridshell to be completed since Frei Otto’s first Mannheim 1974 Multihalle building, in the aftermath of the opening in 2001, the Downland gridshell became a cult building and its architects, Edward Cullinan Architects, best-known project
In Unstructured 2 – 2007 – (a version of this piece was published in Building for A Future Vol 11, no 1, Summer 2001)
2007Glenn Howell’s Savill Garden turns gridshells into something slick
A version of this piece was first published in Building For A Future Vol 16, Winter 2006/7
2007Into phase 2 – Flimwell moves on
Douglas fir Cruck-Frame Offices replace Sweet Chestnut at the Woodland Enterprise Centre
A version of this piece first appeared in Green Building, Volume 17 no 3, Winter 2007
2007Shorne Wood’s Sweet Chestnut cruck frame
Kent Nature visitor centre uses the prolific regional species, Sweet Chestnut, for cladding and its glulam cruck frame
A version of this piece originally appeared in Green Building, Volume 17 no 3, Winter 2007
2006Eden turns to timber – Hewn from the forest of Eden
The Core, Cornwall’s Eden Project new Education Resource Centre is a timber showcase
Annular – A version of this piece appeared in Building for a Future vol 15, no 3 winter 2005/6
2006Baker-BrownMcKay’s Sustainable Design’s camouflage their projects in an ecologically-hued modernism
2005Carpentry comes back
On life support only three decades ago, timber and oak framing carpentry has blossomed again in the intervening decades thanks to pioneers like Carpenter Oak & Woodland, Green Oak Carpentry and others.
A version of this article was originally published in Resurgencein May/June 2005 issue, no 230
2004Nic Pople writes about Edward Cullinan Architect’s Weald & Downland Open Air Museum Gridshell
In Fourth Door Review 5 2001 (this article is not available in Annular Archive)
1998Into the Tree Dreamhouse: The Architecture Ensemble’s Forest House
Steve Johnson writes about re-envisioning the tree house for the future forest
In Fourth Door Review 2/3– 1998 (this article is not available in Annular Archive)