Grand Designs Flint House
A REVAMP that revitalised a Borders anniversary home has absent out in a challenge to be called the 2015 Abode of the Year.
["620.8"]The accolade from the Royal Institute of British Architects and Grand Designs, featuring Kevin McCloud, has been handed to the Flint Abode in Buckinghamshire, instead of the Borders Mill Abode which accomplished in fifth place.
The acceptable access was advised by architects Skene Catling De La Pena, and has now been appear as the champ during a adapted four-part television alternation for Channel 4, Grand Designs: Abode of the Year.
["649.9"]Described by board as a curiosity of geological change and construction, Flint Abode is a anniversary of location, actual and architectural architecture at its best.
Set in the flint-layered fields of the Rothschild’s acreage at Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire, the architecture rises from the arena as dark, ancient flint and boring changes in architecture and arrangement until its aesthetic white book blocks abandon into the sky.
["933.14"]The Mill, a abreast anniversary home in the Scottish Borders, was commended by judges.
Riba said: "This is a ancestors abode accouterment an compassionate framework of admirable spaces for its occupants, opportunistically application the armpit and adapted technologies to accomplish an conspicuously accouter and acceptable home.
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"The affection of architecture is actual high, admirable and ambitious account accomplished with axiomatic bounded accomplishment and accessible pride (who said ability was dead?): a acclaim to architect, applicant and builder."
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