Towards A Self-Build Guild?

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We’re very excited to have been longlisted(!) for the National Custom & Self Build Association Self Build Starter Home competition. Our proposal took a deviant approach to the brief, proposing a ‘Self-Build-Guild’. The Guild is an organisation to support and enable self-build for people with little or no upfront...

HarperPerry selected for Coastival 2017

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Harper Perry have been selected to feature at the Coastival Festival 2017.  The annual winter festival held in Scarborough bring the town to life during the dark nights of February with a programme of  art, performance and music.  HarperPerry will be featuing a mobile installation to portal visitor into...

Hatton Showcase – Designs for a touring pavilion

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Showcase: Designs for a Touring Pavilion We have appointed to work with the Hatton Gallery as part of their work to  deliver a new demountable pavilion for Newcastle and Gateshead to showcase the Hatton Gallery. The new structure aims to maintain the profile of the Hatton whilst it is...

The future of housing?

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As part of the ongoing work of the Ouseburn Futures group, James and Claire will be helping host an evening workshop looking at housing in the Ouseburn – past present and future. The event will cover housing of the past with Mike Greatbatch (Ouseburn Heritage expert), current housing developments...

Stage 1 – Newcastle University

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Last week, James completed teaching a row housing project with Stage 1 students at the School of Architecture at Newcastle University. Working with the photographer Tara Stewart, they developed a brief for a family house and studio in responce to the requirements of Tara, her work as a photographer...

Thoughts on LILAC

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Last month we joined a team of volunteer residents and twenty or so interested people from across the UK to talk about funding and financial models in housing. Perhaps not everyone’s idea of fun weekend, but we had a blast.  This was at LILAC (Low Impact Living and Affordable...

The Envelope Show – Newcastle

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Harper Perry have been involved in the envelope show, a project run by Northern Architecture to support a regional initiative called drawing? which examines and celebrates drawing across the disciplines of art, design, science, technology and engineering. You can read more about the project at Drawing NE which is...