June-July 2012 South West Building & Construction 31 CORNWALL Up on the roof
AN Art Deco-style extension has been approved for a former Ministry of Works building in Truro. Lloyd Richards of Lloyds Architecture was given the brief to design a live/work unit on the roof of Telegraph House. Lloyd has already conducted
various projects with the owner in the building that now provides a restaurant, indoor children’s play facility and a fitness suite. Faced with the severe
elevations of the 1950s telephone exchange repeater station, Lloyd’s design solution for the extension was to use Art Deco influences. The streamlined design is accented with render lines and curves and a bold eaves projection. The extension will be constructed using a structurally insulated panel system which provides an efficient site time and ease of construction on a building site which is 10 metres above the narrow streets. The highly- insulated building fabric will be
IN times of severe credit restrictions, it must be the businesses themselves who dictate when they get paid rather than blame the banks for not letting the business have more credit, while debtors sit on money that is due. This fact applies to any business. *Avoid taking cheques from people who are regularly late payers - instead provide bank details, number and sort code. When an online payment is received, it will be as cleared funds and will not ‘bounce’ unless a fraud is being committed.
A computerised image of the project.
serviced by heat recovery ventilation and air source heat pump systems. The planning officer’s report recommending approval said: ‘The redevelopment of this kind of building is an excellent example of the reuse of previously redundant buildings within a city centre.’ Lloyd, a Chartered Architectural Technologist based in Cornwall, provides client and freelance architectural services. Contact mobile 07875 481919. Email via the address:
mail@lloydsarchitecture.co.uk. Visit the website at:
www.lloydsarchitecture.co.uk.
Business advice
*Some plumbers, builders, electricians and even accountants will schedule stage payments in advance and wait before progressing with the next stage. *Do not become a victim of the credit crunch by letting your debtors become complacent. These recommendations will
benefit your business, as being more up to date paying your own accounts can generate additional discounts and paying online can also reduce bank charges. Clive Kidman, BookBusters Email:
bookbusters@btinternet.com CIC SOUTH WEST
New guide showcases landscape architecture
AS we awaited the unveiling of the Olympic Park, Europe’s most significant landscape project for a generation, the Landscape Institute published its first ever guide for clients. This flagship landscape publication highlights the diverse work being undertaken by landscape architects and showcases the extensive skills and knowledge landscape architects bring to projects large and small.
Landscape Architecture - A Guide For Clients features 38 exemplar projects across the housing, regeneration, tourism, culture, infrastructure, flood management, heritage, energy and health sectors.
From Studio Engleback’s
work for Kevin McCloud’s Triangle development to LDA Design’s large-scale management plans for the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), the guide demonstrates the full scope of work being undertaken by landscape architects today. Triangle, in Swindon, puts the landscape at the heart of housing development. The Kevin McCloud project aims to create excellent ordinary housing that maximises sustainability.
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Landscape architects Studio Engleback were involved from the outset in shaping the vision and form of the Triangle with Glenn Howells Architects. Mr McCloud has written: ‘If a neighbourhood is to have its own centre of gravity, it needs an understanding of “community” that is greater than the sum of the individual households. It needs public space and shared space: places that allow for the possibility of sharing, working together, socialising.’ The significant car-free space retained at the heart of the Triangle development had to ‘work hard for its keep’ and at the same time address
climate change. Using drawings illustrating the layers of functionality, the landscape architects showed how this environmental infrastructure delivered a series of essential services for the Triangle and was a vital extension of the architecture; not mere decoration.
At a much broader scale in the Cotswolds, England’s largest AONB, the Conservation Board appointed LDA Design landscape architects to contribute to the management plan to ensure the future of this dynamic rural landscape.
Mark Connelly, Cotswolds Conservation Board Land Management Officer, said: ‘With an ability to see the bigger picture, as well as to orchestrate responses to complex environmental, social and economic drivers, landscape professionals are perhaps uniquely placed to help shape our future countryside.’
Whether master planning, design, assessment, consultation, strategic planning or project management, the guide for clients highlights landscape architects’ ability to bring vision, technical excellence and creative problem-solving skills to a project; and to deliver added value whilst driving economic and social prosperity. Landscape Architecture - A Guide For Clients is available to download from the Landscape Institute website at
www.Landscapeinstitute.org. The Landscape Institute is
the royal chartered body for landscape architects.
The Construction Industry Council South West is the representative forum for the professional bodies, research organisations and specialist business associations in the construction industry. CIC South West provides a single voice for professionals in all sectors of the built environment through its collective membership.
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