Champions! Denizen Works have won the Architecture Football League. Director (of football) Andrew Ingham said: the team showed great character to finish the season with a six-game winning streak to clinch the championship on the last game of the season. We trusted in the process – which involved losing some matches (and our goalkeeper’s toenail) – and reaped the rewards.
The smelliest bibs in the league will remain unwashed whilst the winning streak continues as we defend our crown next season.
Good news from Scotland where we have learnt that two of our projects have been shortlisted for the Argyll and Bute Design Awards. Hundred Acre Wood and Taigh Na Traigh are both vying for the spoils in the aesthetic design category – fingers crossed!
We spent a very enjoyable evening with Jan Kattein Architects at their studio where we shared projects, wine and crisps – thank you for having us!
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We heard this week that we been shortlisted for an RIAS award for 100 Acre Wood. It is an incredible honour to be recognised for our hard work and dedication to excellence. We are grateful for the recognition and look forward to continuing to provide exceptional service to our clients.
Murray had a good trip over to the United States this month with some interesting work in the offing across the pond. Looking forward to seeing how our response to the climate emerges.
We’re very pleased to welcome Wiktoria to our team as a Part I assistant. Wiktoria joins us having completed her Part I degree at the University of Greenwich where her final project, ‘Light Cliffs of Kerry’, explored bamboo construction in a coastal landscape populated by bioluminescent plankton.
Wishing everyone a very merry Christmas from us all, here at Denizen Works. Here’s to a belting 2023.
The Floating Church was commended at this year’s Building Beauty Awards, organised by the Royal Fine Art Commission Trust. The awards evening was held at the Bloomberg building and Lord Foster was on hand to present the certificates. He didn’t say so, but I think he liked our project best.
We were delighted to be invited to present our work at the Kato Lab of Tokyo University. Kato Lab, led by professor Koichi Kato, is an architectural unit for masters students at the Tokyo University specialising in researching about architecture history, contemporary theories and local vernacular in the Western world. The talk was very well received by everyone and we would love to do more of these in Japan.
Denizen Works have been crowned Building Design Architect of the Year for 2022 having picked up the award for Individual House Architect of the Year, Small Projects Architect of the Year and the Gold Award at this year’s award ceremony. Quite an honour.
After a great trip to visit the House at Ardteatle with Olly Wainwright and a few other journalists, the House at Loch Awe has begun to appear in the press including Olly’s feature in Guardian. Jolly good it is too.
Mannal House graces the cover of the Architects Journal for the next month or so. All down to our friend Gilbert.
We have started the early stages of another project in the west of Scotland, once again we feel very lucky to be working in such a lovely location, but we are sure we will do it justice.