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Bath City Farm
We are very pleased to be working with Bath City Farm on a number of projects. Bath City Farm is a wonderful resource for the local community, providing training, education and entertainment, particularly to disadvantaged people – as well as food of course!
North Road terraced houses
Our Client has recently handed over the keys to the last of three houses built on the site of a 1950s bungalow in Bath. We are, in general, very supportive of the idea that priority should be given to retrofit first, but replacing a single house with three seems to be a good justification of the decision, in this case,
Study Trip 2023
2023 saw Designscape venturing Northwards again to recharge the design batteries – this time to Manchester. As ever, we spent a couple of days looking at some interesting buildings and the City generally. It was quite a revelation to see what is being achieved in a City with such ambition
Weston House – extension to an Arts and Crafts style house
Work has recently started on site to extend this house on the edge of Bath. The original house was only completed in 2012 and has only ever been occupied by one family. The challenge was to extend on a plot which was already relatively tightly occupied, to provide the additional living space required without compromising the useability of the garden.
Project Update: Willow Lodge
We have recently completed this modest rear extension to the back of a small cottage in the middle of a conservation area.
Recently Completed – Westlands farmhouse
This kitchen extension to a Grade II Listed Farmhouse in Wiltshire takes a traditional farmhouse, with thick walls and small openings and transforms the way it can be used, much more in line with modern living expectations.
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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
Our Approach
From residential homes and commercial housing schemes, to art galleries, offices, agricultural and high-tech manufacturing buildings, we have extensive experience of designing architectural solutions for all environments.
Carbon and our work
The biggest impacts of Climate Change are being felt most by the poorest people in the world – those who have the smallest carbon footprint, the least resilience to deal with the consequences, and who have done the least in the past to create the problem.
Big Sheds
View on ISSUU Used to cover a number of diverse building uses from manufacturing and storage/distribution to data centres or sports, our thinking on Big
Designscape Portfolio 2017
View on ISSUU A selection of completed projects. Portfolio 2017.
Neros Foundation Report
View on ISSUU We are proud to support the Neros Foundation through our links to one of the trustees, Cara Sykes. The Neros Foundation is