http://dpa-illustrated-news.org Architects, Designers, Artists, Educators. Sat, 21 Aug 2010 14:35:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Portsmouth, UK: We have received consent for two new kiosks on Southsea Common. The kiosks use space within a 1950s electricity sub-station and will serve coffee, cakes and sandwiches under an A1 Use. We will source standalone kiosks made off-site and slide them into the building. A series of hardwood louvres around the kiosks create an ... http://dpa-illustrated-news.org/seafront-kiosks/ 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 ... http://dpa-illustrated-news.org/local-holes/ 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. ... http://dpa-illustrated-news.org/devon-houses-nearly-finished/ 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 ... http://dpa-illustrated-news.org/spud-do-a-new-gateway-to-portsmouth/ 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 ... http://dpa-illustrated-news.org/adventure-playground-nearly-open/ 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 ... http://dpa-illustrated-news.org/know-your-place-2010/ 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 ... http://dpa-illustrated-news.org/where-we-live-no-showing/ 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 ... http://dpa-illustrated-news.org/728/ 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. ... http://dpa-illustrated-news.org/pop-up-shops-open/ 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’ ... http://dpa-illustrated-news.org/artchitecture-exhibition-at-artsway/