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Just two miles away. 40,000 hand—cut slate slabs laid and arranged like after eight mints. for one word that encapsulates it is not an architectural wordd, but it is fun, and you can see it on the face of users, the enjoyment they are getting fro the project, and that is extremely gratifying. and now, ourfinal building, our 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 breathtaking, to be honest. the puzzle here was to try to create something which created a sense of awe, spiritua...

The development is one of the largest storm water recycling schemes within the world. all the water on the roof is stored and collected and then carried through into the attenuation point within the communal landscape court. to achieve the high demands for daylight meant that the buildings become quite far apart and the building form quite simple. one of the challenges was really fun is to create a kind of intimacy and sense of place. addington overall is a fabulous - concept and i am always bowled over by the fact the university has undertaken this project. - the units are well—spaced, - we...

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.

Oh, it is a door. it is a doorway. come and follow me. wow. takes us past our bathroom. is this a bath? it is a nice big bath. the building is meant to evoke memories of old stone—built memories that once stood here, but it does stand out a bit when compared with its brick—built neighbours. one member of the local preservation society described it as an alien blob. and the council wanted it demolished. the long legal battle to keep the wrecking ball away has been won — but it has left its scars. was there a moment when you thought you should have never started this? of course, yeah. sorr...

Of course, yeah. somebody's decided to press a button, iti 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 energy—hungry furnaces and kilns needed for steel, concrete and bricks. what's keeping this up, giant blocks of rock. the only energy required is cutting and moving them into place. it is a means of construction that has rather fa...