News
Weston House completion
We are really happy with the high quality of finish on this recently completed project – a double extension to a house originally built in 2012….The landscape work is due to be done soon to complete the picture, but the house has been transformed by having the garage turned into a gym and utility
King Alfred Way, Winsley
There are 27 million houses in the UK which need to be comprehensively decarbonized in order to meet the UK’s legal commitment to be a zero-carbon economy by 2050. That is 27 years from now – or 1 million homes per year from now until 2050.
Birdsmorgate – Design Review Panel comments
We are working on a “Paragraph 80” house on a wonderful site in Dorset.
We have adopted a very rigorous “landscape led” approach, working with Greenhalgh Landscape Architecture and Alder Ecology we have so far taken the initial design concept to the South West Design Review Panel.
Macaulay Buildings start on site
Work has recently begun on site for this extension to a Grade II listed late Georgian house on the edge of the City of Bath.
Promising early designs were frustratingly rejected by the Conservation Officer, despite the Council’s preapplication advice that
Vanguard update
Work has now started on site on the new Vanguard Self Storage building in Bath. The site was formerly the home of the Regency Laundry – which had occupied the site since the 1880s.
The building is approx. 5000 sqm of self storage facility. The front of the
Pixash Lane Waste recycling facility
We are now nearing completion on the new facilities near Keynsham for Bath and North East Somerset Council. The facilities include a major new investment in a “state of the art” Materials Recovery Facility for the area and waste transfer station. The project also includes a household waste
Posts
Study Trip 2019
Designscape on tour. A roundup of our low carbon Study Trip to the Midlands where we were inspired by Industrial, Gothic Revival and modern architecture.
Big Sheds
Big Sheds can be a commercially viable business asset if well considered and designed. Here we share out insights on key drivers of Big Shed design and you can download our recent Big Sheds publication
Architects Declare
Putting our pledge into practice Since signing up to the Architects Declare climate manifesto in June Designscape have been investigating ways in which we can
Listed Buildings
A guide to successful alteration Based in the World Heritage City of Bath, we regularly get enquiries from clients wishing to make alterations to a
Planning Consent & Bat Surveys
Notorious for adding months of delay to a planning application, mitigating the presence of bats can help keep your building project on track.
Publications
Briefing document
View on ISSUU Follow this link to download our client’s workplace briefing document. This primer is intended to assist clients at the earliest stage of
Workplace Architecture
Some of our principal workplace projects and our architectural approach within commercial workplace sector.
Residential Architecture
View on ISSUU With a wealth of experience designing residential homes and commercial housing schemes, Designscape are experts in buildings designed for living. From interesting