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Landscape and situation. for the bridge deck, we used slate mined from a quarryjust two miles away. 40,000 hand=split and hand—cut slate slabs laid and arranged like after eight mints. one word that encapsulates it is not an architectural word, but it is �*fun�*, and you can see it on the face of users — the fun and the enjoyment they are getting from the project, and that is extremely gratifying. and now, ourfinal building, a mosque in cambridge. when i first walked in, i think, when you first enter up the stairs through the car park and you see these sweeping pillars — yeah, it's b...

But didn't dominate this cambridge street. so, set behind the greenery, the building slowly reveals itself as you walk towards it. the inspiration, a wooded grove. the garden of paradise. so, everything around us is wood, then? yes. a low carbon building, i guess? yes, one of the central tenets of the design was doing tonic design something that was both environmentally and socially sustainable so the involvement of the community was important too that this building should sit comfortably in its community. so this was a competition in 2009 and members of the community — non—muslim members ...

100%. i think everyone can attest that dance is meant to be, it is a social... dance, you know, it is a social art form and i think it is meant to be in the space life, bumping into people, connecting with people, having conversations like this. our next building, like the mosque, is all about fitting into the local environment — which is not the residential neighbourhood but somewhere which is really, really beautiful and the key issue is, don't spoil the view. the residential neighbourhood but somewhere which is really, really beautiful and the key

Is equally elemental, a study in stone with all the attendant stresses, strains and personal trauma. was there a moment when you thought you'd wished you'd never started this? he laughs. of course, yeah. somebody's decided to press a button, it could all be - demolished. we are looking at an apartment building of eight flats and office space underneath the three offices and it is made of limestone, load—bearing limestone. limestone, correct. limestone. that's what this building is all about. rediscovering a way of building that doesn't involve

The brief for this building was to create a world—class building in which to house the internationally significant boat collection. it is needed to be a building which can accommodate large—scale boats that was exciting for the public to want to visit but also, importantly, because it sat within one of our great national parks, it had to enhance the landscape that was within. sustainability has been really central to the concept of the building. we have systems such as the lake—source heat pump which heats the whole building underpinning the energy strategy. we have sourced material so t...