Do you live in a house with a top class architectural pedigree?
If so, listen up, because the conservation body that looks after Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic Fallingwater has come up with a crafty way to get the windows replaced: sell the old ones off to architectural relic hunters.
Their website explains that the old windows are [...]

It’s official: Glasgow is great. The Dear Green Place has only gone and made it into the Lonely Planet’s Top Ten list of best cities for visitors.
Not only that but it was the sole UK city to be included. Even better, it beat Edinburgh! Bring it on.
Of course, this news comes as no surprise to [...]

Now here’s a novel notion: a church built out of beer cans.  Yep, that’s right.  A church. From beer cans.
Although it may sound like something straight from the mind of Homer Simpson, this is actually a true story of ecclesiastical architecture.
Having lost their main church building to developers, the parish of Colston Milton in Glasgow [...]

Here’s possibly the coolest thing I’ve seen all day. Some deck builder (that’s skateboards not verandas) over in Canada has specced out his board-building school with a very special staircase
As eager students hurry towards the basement to learn the ancient craft of skateboard construction, their scuffed up Supras and dirty Vans will have to navigate [...]

Here’s a great way to get yourself a free house. Pose as an artist, say you want to create a gallery/meeting space that’s environmentally sound and get your local community to donate all their scrap wood and raw materials that would otherwise end up lying in a skip somewhere.
Now that’s not entirely what German designers [...]

Okay, I absolutely promise that this is my last blog on Kevin McCloud for the rest of the year month week.
But as reported here, Kev’s company Hab (Happiness architecture beauty – and yes the lowercase acronym is intentional) got a bit of bad press over their decision to part ways with architects Wright and Wright.
In [...]

One I made earlier? Not quite … still
Lily Allen, the prolific blogger and occasional popstar who always sometimes gives the impression she simply must tell the world about every thought as it enters her head, has created a small yet important ripple in the world of architecture.
Why? She simply let slip, in typical brazen-as-you-like style, [...]

This blogging malarkey appears to have triggered an unexpected impulse within my synaptic gap, namely the constant need to reference the deity of property putdowns that is Kevin McCloud.
“I’m not obsessed!” I wailed at my boss on presentation of this latest subject.
“You have a picture of him on your computer,” he replied, in an annoyingly [...]

“Rudimentary illimitable sewerage? malformation, backstop carolyn.
Clog document millionaire? last, last lucy”
No I haven’t been channelling TS Eliot again. (Last time I tried that, I kept seeing women coming and going, talking about Michaelangelo – all rather weird.)
Instead, this deathless verse is but a fragment from one of the occasional spam emails we get here at [...]

Someone tell the three little piggies to forget their straw, wood and brick houses because I’ve seen the future – and it’s all made of foam.
Already mushrooming up in Japan (where else?) these styrofoam houses are being touted as the solution to the world’s housing crisis. You know those polystyrene cups of tea you get [...]