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Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios completes “invisible repair” of world’s first cast iron building

October 5, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has completed its 20-year transformation of a historic mill in Shropshire into a museum and workspace that celebrates its pioneering cast iron-framed structure. The Grade I-listed Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings was originally constructed in 1797 by architect Charles Bage and is known as the “grandfather of skyscrapers” due to its structure, which

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Maetherea Studio uses rusty metal to create Iron Reef in Norfolk

June 17, 2024 Katie Last 0

Landscape architecture practice Maetherea Studio has used rusty iron rebars to create an “amphibious” installation that emerges from reedbeds of the River Yare in Norfolk. Named Iron Reef, the installation is made from slim vertical bars of red-toned weathered metal that increase in height in a curved formation. Maetherea Studio’s design draws on the local

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Kate Darby and David Connor preserve rotting structure in conversion of 18th-century cottage

October 13, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

David Connor Design and Kate Darby Architects have transformed a tumbledown cottage in England’s West Midlands into a home and studio, enveloping the ruined old structure in a shell of black corrugated metal. David Connor and Kate Darby set about preserving the 300-year-old timbers, erecting a new steel frame over the listed ruins and cladding it in blackened corrugated

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Kate Darby and David Connor preserve rotting structure in conversion of 18th-century cottage

October 13, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

David Connor Design and Kate Darby Architects have transformed a tumbledown cottage in England’s West Midlands into a home and studio, enveloping the ruined old structure in a shell of black corrugated metal. David Connor and Kate Darby set about preserving the 300-year-old timbers, erecting a new steel frame over the listed ruins and cladding it in blackened corrugated

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