You can keep the Costa Brava
Just about every time I’ve been to Margate there’s been a dazzling blue sky and I asked if the golden sand was artificial – it isn’t. However my interest in this place didn’t stem from [...]
Home is where you park it…
As we’re all struggling to keep our spirits up in the cold and wet at this time of the year it’s time to think of sunnier times and escape and where we might be ‘living’ [...]
If “we believe that children are our future…”
Back in 2001 I had my first book published; Environmental Health and Housing. My publisher told me he expected that I would go onto write more. I said that I doubted it: everything I knew [...]
GUEST BLOG: Apocalypse Soon
I am delighted to post this guest blog from artist Joseph Goddard about his recent exhibition The Structure of Collapse at Arts Depot I was lucky enough to be able to attend. IMG_2105 I approach [...]
Gaudí’s musical Spanish house
An amazing chance find on a recent visit to Northern Spain. Who knew that Antonio Gaudi’s first house was built in Comillas, a lovely seaside town, a place once favoured by the Spanish royal family? [...]
From Prefab to Container Living
Prefabs were supposed to be a short-term fix to the housing crisis after the second world war, a life of around 10 years until housing could be more permanently sorted. They needed to be constructed [...]