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What makes a great urban space? Vitality, activity, scenery, history, car prohibited areas, architecture… It's somewhere you want to be because you don't feel too insignificant in your surrounds. You want to linger there, exploring cozy nooks and taking in the sights, smells and sounds.
When it comes to window joinery you might think the only big decision to be made is around somehow matching the colour to both your cladding AND your interior walls. WRONG.
Other frame types such as uPVC and timber typically outperform aluminium thermally, while there are also many options in glazing - clear or tinted, low-e, and gas infill - which all alter the thermal performance of the windows.
Lets have a look at some of the options available and the pros and cons of each.
For Christmas I made my 2 year old daughter a dolls house. Not just any old dolls house, mind you. My designer brain had to create something in an architectural style! I chose the classic bungalow so prevalent throughout New Zealand!
There has been a bit in the news on medium density housing in the last few years, probably along with some confusion as to what it is. Here, we clarify what it is and suggest some of the benefits of embracing it in the cities of Aotearoa.
This list is limited to buildings that I've experience inside and out, not just based on the exterior, and since most of my travel has been concentrated in Europe that's where most of the buildings are located!
When one thinks of passive house they probably think - like I did - that it's to keep the house warm through winter. And while that's correct, it's only part of the picture because overheating in summer gets overlooked.
There have been many blog posts written about so-called 'hygge' interior style over the past few years. It has come to be synonymous with anything apparently Scandinavian in terms of décor. But what is hygge, really?
We are diving into our big three: “beautiful, sustainable, comfortable”! In Part 1, Jonathan covers some of our design inspiration at Reform Architecture…
