30 articles in Architectural Design with practical commercial and delivery insight.
Regulations constrain design, and treating them as a checklist at the end produces worse buildings than designing with them from the start.
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Most of a building's cost is decided before anyone prices it. The design choices that move the number most.
Read MoreBathrooms concentrate services, waterproofing and finishes in a small area. The errors that become permanent.
Read MoreRenovation design can respect the existing structure or fight it. The cost and outcome of each approach.
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Style is not only appearance. The choice affects cost, maintenance and how the building performs in this climate.
Read MoreGardens are designed for photographs and lived in for three months a year. Planning outdoor space around the climate.
Read MoreDrawings describe what to build. Intent explains why, and it is what prevents reasonable site decisions from damaging the design.
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Design proceeds through stages for a reason. What each produces, and the cost of skipping ahead.
Read MoreHouseholds change over twenty years and houses rarely do. The provisions that make later change possible, and what they cost now.
Read MoreLighting is usually a shopping decision made after the wiring is fixed. Reversing that order changes the result.
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Approving drawings you cannot fully read means approving decisions you have not seen. What to check, and how.
Read MoreWhether the structure is visible affects cost, ceiling heights, services and the character of the interior.
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