The Shingle House, Dungeness, England

Designed for Living Architecture, this 8 person holiday home is sited on the shingle of the UK's only desert: Dungeness. The design takes the natural drama of the site and responds with black tarred shingles on the outside and simple concrete and timber interior. Reviews: BD Online 22 may 2009 Urban realm 9 July 2010 Urlaubsarchitektur World Interior design network 13 July 2010 Archdaily 21 July 2010 The Guardian Autumn 2010 Hotlist The Observer 26 september 2010 Financial Times Travel 15 October 201 Daily Telegraph 24 Sept 2010 Grand designs Live show, seminar 10 Oct 2010 Awards: Innovation & Design Awards 2010 in leisure categor

Olympic 2012 Substation, Stratford, London

In 2007 NORD were appointed to work with the Olympic Delivery Authority to develop a strong contextual approach to a key utility building within the Olympic Park. The building is not designed as an event venue in its own right, but as part of a number of buildings that form the fabric of the Olympic site itself; having permanency, weight and dignity. The utility structures are being developed to consider a common palette of reference materials where these relate to their use and location Awards and reviews: Article In Brick Bulletin. May 2010 Electricity Substation wins RIBA Award. May 2010 Electricity Substation May 2010 wins Scottish Design Award for best Regeneration Project. Electricity Substation shortlisted for RIBA Stirling Prize. NORD's Substation for the 2012 Olympics makes the 19 strong Long List for the Stirling Prize.July 2010 The Olympic SubStation shortlisted in the Best Public and Innovative Use categories for the Brick Awards.July 2010. Awards night on Wednesday 3 November in London. Article in Dzine, Ibstock, Autumn 2010, pp12-13 Station to station: the new power generation. Includes Nord's olympic power substation. Article in The Independent 5th August 2010

Workplace design for the Australian residential aged care workforce

Objectives: This research explored residential aged care (RAC) workplace design features that influence how RAC staff feel valued, productive, safe, like they belong and connected. A secondary aim was to validate emerging themes about RAC design features with stakeholders. Methods: A multistage qualitative study was conducted in one RAC facility with 100 residents in outer metropolitan Melbourne: (i) photo-elicitation – photographs were used to prompt discussions with RAC staff; (ii) individual interviews with RAC directors; and (iii) validity testing with the advisory committee occurred. Results: Key workplace design features that influenced how RAC staff feel valued, productive, safe, like they belong and connected included the following: (i) home-like environment; (ii) access to outdoor spaces; (iii) quality indoor environment; and (iv) access to safe, open and comfortable workplaces. Conclusions: Key workplace design features that matter to RAC staff in a ‘shared workspace’ exist. Increasing demands upon RAC requires evidence-based workplace design policy and evaluation approaches that support RAC staff to work in RAC shared workspaces. © 2018 AJA Inc. **Please note that there are multiple authors for this article therefore only the name of the first 5 including Federation University Australia affiliate “Kurt Seemann” is provided in this record*

Review of building: London 2012 powers ahead as first Olympic Park building is complete. New substation switched on to supply electricity to Olympic Park and Stratford City development

New substation switched on to supply electricity to Olympic Park and Stratford City development The first building on the Olympic Park has been completed the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) confirmed today as EDF Energy completed work on a new Primary Electrical Substation that will supply electricity to the Olympic Park and the Stratford City development

Architects' inspirations: Nord's Alan Pert rediscovers Scotland's Crichton Castle

Alan Pert reveals how a visit to Crichton Castle as a boy has been an influence on his most recent building - an electricity substation for the London Olympic

The Stone House, Scottish housing expo, Plot No. 2 (Highland housing fair)

The Highland region of Scotland is staging a major Housing Fair in August 2009 to showcase the best of house building design and technology. It aims to change the current trend of urban developments in the Highland region. An RIAS design competition was held in the Spring of 2007 to coincide with Highland 2007 - a celebration of Highland culture - as a main feature of the Six Cities Design Festival. Based on Finish housing expos the competition was open to architects, builders, suppliers and designers. NORD Architecture's winning scheme is one of 27 residential developments for the housing expo at Balvonie Braes, near to Inverness. The project will mark the entrance to the Highland Housing Fair.The design draws on vernacular forms, materials and a specific landscape setting with it's daily and seasonal changes in colour, texture, light and spectacle. The choice of stone refers to the stone buildings typically found within highland settlements. The building mass is designed as an object - like volume in stone, crafted to allude to the ribbon of rough-stone-roofs strung along the landscape of the highlands. Reviews: BD Online 13 Aug 2010

My kind of town - Clydebank and Hanley

My kind of town is shaped by the experiences of childhood, growing up in the heart of industrial Britain, and now fearing that Starbucks will start to sell fish suppers. The Pert family came from Ferryden, a quaint village with a long history of seafaring on the south side of the River South Esk, opposite Montrose. My great-great-grandfather was a fisherman and recent trips have uncovered numerous remnants of an industry of smoke-houses, ice-houses, harbour walls and coastal defences like Scurdy Ness Lighthouse, an infrastructure serving a community that has now all but gone. Following the decline of fishing in Ferryden large parts of the community relocated. My grandfather headed west to Clydebank, north-west of Glasgow, a town created to house the shipyard workers who built the Lusitania (1906), Queen Mary (1934), Queen Elizabeth (1938) and the QE2 (1967). Also here was the Singer sewing machine factory which opened in 1885 and by 1960 employed 16,000 workers. In 1941, the Clydebank Blitz destroyed 4,000 and damaged all but seven of the town's 8,000 houses

Scottish housing - a new vernacular

A presentation about Scottish housin