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On material, permanence and method.
Occasional writing from the studio — why we build the way we build, and what it costs to build for two centuries.
On permanence, and its cost
Why we design for the second owner, and the tenth — and what that decision takes out of a budget before it puts anything back.
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The grain of the week
Board-formed concrete records the exact timber it was cast against. We stopped treating that as a defect and started treating it as a signature.
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Sölv House: what the mirror cost us
A two-millimeter reveal, held across thirty-four meters of facade, by the same hands that drew it. A post-mortem on the hardest tolerance we have set.
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A handful of commissions a year.