Envision : Design : Create : We are passionate about design & architecture, & create spaces for our clients to love. Formby (North) & Huntingdon (South)
United Kingdom
Joined September 2012
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Devlin Architects retweeted
This report is tosh. We have design, masterplanning & placemaking skills *in abundance*. What we need more of are:
1) clients who want to create decent places
2) planners who understand good design
3) contractors who care about quality
What we don’t need? A new “design school”.
Gove backs creation of design school to ‘revive traditional architecture’ bit.ly/3VHvBqc
Devlin Architects retweeted
In Italy the government will pay you 110% of the cost to insulate walls, upgrade windows, or install a heat pump or solar panels. This is how to fund #retrofirst
itv.com/news/2021-10-21/ital…
Devlin Architects retweeted
We're calling for a more ambitious Future Buildings Standard.
Read our cross-industry letter to @mhclg Permanent Secretary, Jeremy Pocklington, here: bit.ly/3thGdPd
Devlin Architects retweeted
📢Anger over plans to demolish historic Grantham hospital building⛔️Gifted to the town by Lord Brownlow in 1874, the unlisted hospital has been left to rot➡️bit.ly/2O5pIWF
Devlin Architects retweeted
The Government just confirmed diesel trains will run on the East West link between Oxford and Cambridge.
As @DanielZeichner says, every rail expert will tell you that it costs more to electrify railway lines later.
More money wasted by this irresponsible Government.
Devlin Architects retweeted
A senior NHS consultant texts:
“Why not vaccinate all teachers in time for return to school on 18 jan? A box of Astra Zeneca vaccine to every school. It would only take days but what a great start to the year to know that all teachers were safe.”
Devlin Architects retweeted
A week late but my I have two issues with the RIBA competency tests:
1. What the hell do you test? Given the extraordinary range of work architects undertake at different scales and in different contexts, what would be considered 'core' knowledge. At a large scale, architects
Devlin Architects retweeted
A touching faith in design codes. 'schemes which comply with local design guides and codes have a positive advantage and greater certainty about their prospects of swift approval'. Bad client + bad architect = bad design, however good the code. gov.uk/government/consultati…
Devlin Architects retweeted
📢 PRESS RELEASE: Dad's Army station saved from bulldozers ⚡️ Breaking news: A High Court order issued TODAY quashed the decision by Breckland District Council to allow the demolition of the 1845 station building at Brandon. Full details here bit.ly/3fd7D0J
Devlin Architects retweeted
Finland 🇫🇮 has one of the best education systems in the world. Just look at the incredible futuristic design of one of their schools.
#tech #Finland #education #design #architecture #construction #innovation
Devlin Architects retweeted
Amid reports that UK Govt is preparing legislation which will ‘take an axe’ to #planning, we have responded to proposals which would make sweeping curtailments of protections for heritage assets with archaeological interest.
archaeologists.net/news/cifa…
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Devlin Architects retweeted
As Liverpool prepares for another major protest about race and inequality - I recall our own great effort, as students, fifty years ago protesting precisely the same issues:
channel4.com/news/by/jon-sno…
Devlin Architects retweeted
The value of the care that unpaid #carers provide is £132 billion per year – the equivalent of a second NHS.
This week is #CarersWeek and Carers Trust needs your help to #MakeCaringVisible.
Devlin Architects retweeted
Let’s explore why #BorisHasFailedBritain - #COVID19 for one - #BrexitBritain for another! Sorry but whoever voted for this #corrupt #inept #Disgraceful #shameful individual should own this mess too! Do you really think he cares about YOU! Think again - MONEY TALKS! #ToryLiars
Devlin Architects retweeted
This!!!! 👇🏻 - if you think @BorisJohnson & his #corrupt #useless government are doing well - think again! If you don’t care then you are as bad if not worse! #BorisTheLiar #BorisTheButcher has blood on his hands!!!! #Disgraceful #HoldThemToAccount
Devlin Architects retweeted
Apparently they were ring fenced and protected - How can this be @MattHancock ? Or has the organ grinder not told you and your other useless government yet? Care to lie about this one too?? #shambles #toryaccountabilty #ToryLiars #COVIDー19
BREAKING: ONS says up to 15th May 11,650 people died with #covid19 in care homes in England & Wales alone.
And the proportion of deaths occurring in care homes continues to rise.
In the last week for which we have data, 43.6% of all deaths with Covid-19 were in care homes.
Devlin Architects retweeted
He's not wrong!! James Wines says his BEST stores made the brand "world famous almost overnight". Watch him speak about the stores and the failure of designing with computers on @Dezeen – dezeen.com/2020/05/05/james-…
Devlin Architects retweeted
Fiona Scott of @GortScott said ‘The idea of more flexibility and moving more easily between use classes, as well as mixing use classes and incorporating multiple uses within the same property will be crucial. #HighStreet @ArchitectsJrnal
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Devlin Architects retweeted
📢 Plans to tear down parts of this GII-listed gothic orphanage in Preston have been recommended for approval... Despite their poor condition, the buildings retain a great deal of their significance. We are fighting for more of the complex to be spared. bit.ly/2VHViLh
