NEW URBAN HOUSING IDEAS FOR SHEFFIELD
OCTOBER 2016
Darbishire Place, our housing project for the Peadbody Trust, will feature in the public exhibition ‘New Urban Housing Ideas for Sheffield’ which runs from 22nd to 30th October at Sheffield Train Station. The event, staged by the Sheffield Civic Trust, aims to showcase the best, most innovative examples of new urban housing from across the UK and Europe. Also exhibited are projects by O’Donnell + Tuomey; Project Orange; Henley Halebrown Rorrison; Pitman Tozer; Ash Sakula; and Claire and David Kemp.
NIALL MCLAUGHLIN WRITES LA ARTICLE FOR ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW
SEPTEMBER 2013
Niall McLaughlin has written an article for the Architectural Review, entitled ‘Street Life: Michael Maltzan’s Social Housing in Los Angeles’. The piece examines the history of the infamous area of LA known as Skid Row and three housing projects by the practice Michael Maltzan Architecture for this fractured part of the city. The piece draws out common themes between the projects, which are all low-cost accommodation for the previously homeless, exploring the successful spatial relationships between the private space of the individual rooms, the areas of common sheltered space and the public realm of the street.
“The formal virtuosity of each composition is Maltzan’s own special skill and they suggest that high architecture can give pleasure and dignity to all of us….I hope that the different spatial experiments, linking and articulating pavement, common sheltered space and private rooms, will become subjects for further reflection and analysis. It speaks of our common need to situate ourselves and participate in public life.” NM