Out and about

We know this is nothing to do with our design work, but its the sort of thing that has us in awe, so indulge us! Ben Smith recently made the national news with his 401 Challenge, to run 401 marathons [...]

A refreshing change to find, at a motorway service station, a carefully and beautifully designed building, great food, friendly service and a peaceful farm-shop environment. Our last pit-stop on the way home from Snowdonia, and one well worth making. If [...]

Walking the paths of Snowdonia the tenuousness of previous human activity at the foot of the Snowdon massif was evident. The farm and mine buildings were built entirely 'of the land'; the use of slate for these and almost all [...]

A (wet) morning perusing the strangely unsettling setting of Portmeiron. Gothic, French country, Italianate, mediaeval and art deco elements brought together under a consistent and unifying hand. I'm sure the engineer was left scratching his head on occasion, too. [...]

For all those open-air swimming fans: What a glorious opening  for the newly refurbished sea-water pool at Penzance. See great pictures in the local press, here. Not one of ours, but spotted in a press release and makes you want [...]

We're all going on a summer holiday... (join in, you know the words). So the office will be closed from Monday 15th August to Friday 26th August incl. Please leave messages or emails and we will deal with them as [...]

Fantastically organised 32.5 mile road race around Dartmoor today; huge thanks to Teignbridge Trotters who laid on the really uplifting and well supported Dartmoor Discovery race. A toughy, warm and hazy today, but beautiful out there and found some great [...]

Lovely little cabin overlooking Burton Bradstock beach, exquisitely crafted; wish it was one of ours. [...]

It goes without saying that we're parkrun fans here anyway, but you've got to admire Ken's determination, his family, and the community spirit that is parkrun, embodied and celebrated so well here. [...]