Architecture and interior design thread

Matt sanded is a nice finish, much less “commercial kitchen” than brushed.

Today I had the privilege of starting some restoration work on this grade II listed building that was designed by Naeve Brown. I'm well chuffed.

Nice one, must be interesting. I've become so specialised in victorian and local to one area, gets me all at sea when I work somewhere modern.

Its very interesting and a bit daunting. Because it's so minimalist there is nowhere to hide less than perfect workmanship. Also a number of the owners are architects and therefore have high standards.

As long as they can afford their high standards.

Thinking about it, maybe the umlauftank 2 of technische Universität is crazier?

Funnily enough I was thinking of that exact building. It's great.

What were you doing there?
Curious as I'm considering putting an offer on this and, while not listed, it's same era (1968) and fairly distinctive.

I'm renovating and repairing some windows.

The place I'm working is fairly unique as it's a small block that was privately funded by the architect and one of the residents (who still lives there). The original owners I believe had to undergo an interview in order to be able to buy one of the houses.

One of the properties is currently for sellz if you fancy it and can find double what you may offer on the other place.

Found this while looking for something else. Fun for a click through on a grey afternoon. https://www.flickr.com/photos/jrjamesarchive/

What’s the recommended process for finding an architect if you’re looking to do work on your house? Thinking side return, loft and internal re-config. I don’t want to waste people’s time.

Google?

resi.co.uk and use my referral code

Nah m9

Have you used them ?

Happy to share how I went about it if interested... also have a range of quotes, but it’s prob not cricket sharing those publicly.

I’ve heard mixed things about them. I’m glad I didn’t use them, guys I used were amazing.

Happy to share how I went about it if interested... also have a range of quotes, but it’s prob not cricket sharing those publicly.

Yes please. Offer accepted on House v2 and it has stuff that needs doing. Any and all experiences, advice and quotes would be helpful

Yes pleas bruh, would be v helpful. Similar areas so 👌

could you Dm me too? I'm weighing up the costs of doing something similar so any info would be great

Er. Ditto pls. :o)

yes and writing this from the extension that was built

I'd say they are only for completely clueless people like me, if you know someone/better dont go with them. They could be defined as most 'vanilla'. Which is what I wanted.

DM'd all of ya one big load of waffle... hope it helps a bit... let me know if you want any more info.

Niche one - I’ve got a copy of ‘Notes for those beginning the discipline of architecture’, which despite the name is more of a design curio than anything of use. Nobody on the internet has anything nice to say about it, but it’s a fun bit of print design. No idea about the dvd, have no means of playing it. Anyone can have it for the price of posting it to them as I feel bad throwing it away.

me please

i found these yesterday and thought they were quite interesting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E52Rng56B3Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf-rlLsH1lI