COMMENT: THE FOX IN THE FACADE

摘要

What makes the Small Project crits so special? Maybe it's the high standard of work on show. David Kohn's Stirling-inspired house extension would have won last year, the year before, and the year before that, such was its quality, but this year ... no. You could say the same about Phil Coffey's Modern Side Extension, which managed to squeeze something new and elegant out of the London Victorian terrace upgrade market. Guy Holloway's Pobble House too: a Cor-ten, larch and cement fibre hideaway in Dungeness; and Olga Felip, who flew in from Barcelona to present Arquitecturia's artist's studio, had the competition not been so fierce. And what about the Stargazing pavilion by Newcastle University students? They designed it with locals in Kielder Park, and even used BIM to create it. Who says graduates are not ready to work?