Happenings
Portsmouth, UK: We have dug trial holes on the site of the changing and health consulting rooms building we are working on in Bransbury Park, Portsmouth. The building is for a three way client of Portsmouth Football Club, Portsmouth Primary Care Trust and Portsmouth City Council. Three big clients, one small building!
We obtained planning in April and [...]
Bridgend, Wales, UK: There will be another Know Your Place workshop this September 7th and 8th in the south Wales town of Bridgend.
Deer Park Alpha have been working in partnership with the Design Commission for Wales (DCFW) on this project since 2009. Know Your Place is a pilot project of workshops across Wales all about sense [...]
Portsmouth, UK: Another exhibition, but this time not of our work: We have been working with Portsmouth College this year on a project that links urban design and surrealism. There is currently and exhibition at the Pop-Up Shops in Commercial Road of the students work.
The work on display is the product of twelve workshops. The project [...]
We are pleased to be currently exhibited a current project at ArtSway. We have been collaborating with composer Hywel Davies and engineer Nick Gradidge on a small dwelling in the New Forest. The project is part of the Solent Centre for Architecture & Design’s (SCAD) Artchitecture project. More info here.
‘Artchitecture’ is a project SCAD are [...]
New Forest, UK: We were asked a week or so ago to go and talk about our approach to design at a conference in the New Forest. The usual last minute ‘oh dear what shall we speak about’ discussion took place. Then, after 10 minutes, a watercolour and a quick flick through the book closest [...]
Edits
Devon, UK: The two new houses we have designed in Beer, Devon are nearing completion. Beer is a lovely village on the south Devon Coast. The houses sit up on the hill looking down at the beach and cliffs. We designed two quite traditional houses made of devon chirt flint. The plan is an exercise [...]
Portsmouth, UK: The adventure playground we designed to RIBA Stage C last year is nearly complete. It is looking like it will be open by the end of the month. The project was designed following some interesting research and public involvement. You can read more about this here: http://dpa-illustrated-news.org/Playground/
The design was taken on by the [...]
Online: Our small book ‘Where We Live: A Guidebook to Urban Design’ is now available to view online. Thanks to the Solent Centre for Architecture and Design. They have found some online viewer thing. Check it out here.
See the film (!) about the book in the top right of this web page.
Deer Park Alpha are [...]
Portsmouth, UK: We have just completed the fit out of three new shops in central Portsmouth. The formerly empty shops have been refurbished to our design by the Bionic Engineers, a social enterprise we helped establish last year through the Future Jobs Fund.
The shops have a rolling programme of exhibitions and traders. Indeed, we are exhibiting some [...]
Opinion
Portsmouth, UK: We have been working with the Solent Centre for Design and Architecure (from now on called SCAD on this website as I cannot keep typing the full name, I do have work to do…) on their SPUD project. That is Space Place Urban Design!
SCAD say: ”SPUD is the name of a new network of [...]
Over the past month or so we have attended a whole host of events where the creative economy has been hailed as the saviour of the nation. However, quite apart from the fact that the creative sector is seen by just about every region in the developed world as its saviour, we are worried that there [...]
PORTSMOUTH, UK: We filmed this lovely sunrise on the way into work on Monday morning. It is 5 mins long but very beautiful, even on a crappy Nokia phone. Must go HD.
PORTSMOUTH, UK: Our ‘The Route’ project featured in Portsmouth’s local paper The News on 18 October 2008. A most excellent article written by David Hurley gives a good and positive overview of the project. You can download a high resolution (6MB) version here
Our new book ‘Where we live: A Guidebook to Urban Design’ will be out very soon. If you live in the South East of England reserve your free copy be sending an email to book@deerparkalpha.org