Grand Designs host Kevin McCloud gets new co-presenter as architect Natasha Huq joins

Grand Designs host Kevin McCloud gets a new co-presenter as architect Natasha Huq joins the Channel 4 show By Ellie Phillips For Mailonline Published: 04:07 EDT, 23 July 2021 | Updated: 04:08 EDT, 23 July 2021 He’s fronted the show solo for two decades. And, Grand Designs: The Streets host Kevin McCloud, 62, is to get … Read more

Inside Sydney architect Ross MacKinnon’s Orana in Killingworth, VIC

Behind the doors of this ‘woolshed’ lies a spectacular luxury home – complete with multiple sunlit living spaces, a firepit retreat with breathtaking views and its own vineyard A quintessential Australian farm building served as the inspiration for one of the country’s coolest homes Sydney architect Ross MacKinnon created the four-bedroom in Killingworth to look … Read more

Cycling to the church where Tom Sharpe, his Nazi dad, and NHS architect Lord Beveridge were buried 

An ancient church, high on the barren Northumbrian moors, is the surprise last resting place of one of our national heroes as well as the unofficial and ultimately temporary burial place of a best-selling author. Before the latest lockdown, I cycled out there to find out why. I uncovered a bizarre tale involving a 1930s … Read more

Cycling to the church where Tom Sharpe, his Nazi dad, and NHS architect Lord Beveridge were buried 

An ancient church, high on the barren Northumbrian moors, is the surprise last resting place of one of our national heroes as well as the unofficial and ultimately temporary burial place of a best-selling author. Before the latest lockdown, I cycled out there to find out why. I uncovered a bizarre tale involving a 1930s … Read more

Win for Prince Charles’ favourite architect as stable plans at ‘Poundshop Versailles’ are rejected

Prince Charles’ favourite architect has dealt a blow to a development dubbed a ‘Poundshop Versailles’ after plans to erect stables and a riding school at a £7million mansion were rejected. Quinlan Terry CBE – who helped design Prince Charles’ traditionalist village, Poundbury in Dorset – is among scores of people opposing the swanky Higham Park … Read more

Architect designs GENIUS in-built drying rack for clothes below the kitchen sink 

Architect designs GENIUS in-built drying rack for clothes below the kitchen sink A German architects has revealed the secret clothes line in his laundry room The Melbourne father was sick of clunky, free-standing, collapsible drying racks  The rack can support 65 kilograms of weight and slides neatly away every time By Belinda Cleary For Daily … Read more

Architect designs GENIUS in-built drying rack for clothes below the kitchen sink 

Architect designs GENIUS in-built drying rack for clothes below the kitchen sink  A German architects has revealed the secret clothes line in his laundry room The Melbourne father was sick of clunky, free-standing, collapsible drying racks  The rack can support 65 kilograms of weight and slides neatly away every time By Belinda Cleary For Daily … Read more

Prince Charles’s favourite architect is embroiled in row over £7million ‘Poundshop Versailles’

Prince Charles’s favourite architect is embroiled in a row over claims that the view that inspired one of Constable’s most famous paintings will be ruined by a house critics have branded a ‘Poundshop Versailles’. Quinlan Terry, known as Britain’s ‘high priest of classical architecture’, has complained about the £7million mansion being built by Craig Bisson, 41, … Read more

Prince Charles’s favourite architect is embroiled in row over £7million ‘Poundshop Versailles’

Prince Charles’s favourite architect is embroiled in a row over claims that the view that inspired one of Constable’s most famous paintings will be ruined by a house critics have branded a ‘Poundshop Versailles’. Quinlan Terry, known as Britain’s ‘high priest of classical architecture’, has complained about the £7million mansion being built by Craig Bisson, 41, … Read more

Can an architect and builder visit my house in lockdown?

We moved home last summer into a house that we consider a project and needs totally refurbishing and extending. It’s not quite a Grand Design but we intend to completely transform the house. Our plan was to get a small selection of architects round in the New Year to give us their thoughts on what … Read more