Visualising sustainable architecture
How photography can make the environmental systems within a working manufacturing plant visible, without reducing sustainability to a visual claim.
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Architecture and the presentation of built work.
The Journal is a collection of considered writing on completed architecture, the visualisation of architecture, the built environment, and how projects are understood, communicated and remembered.
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Real architectural photography and AI imagery
Why credible documentation, physical experience and human judgement continue to matter when completed architecture is represented.
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New architecture within historic settings
How material, proportion, thresholds and the churchyard allow a contemporary addition to belong without relying on imitation.
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Architecture, scale and the city
How towers, infrastructure, landscape and neighbouring buildings make architectural scale legible within the city.
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Architecture at the pace of the street
How streets, landscape and movement shape the way architecture is encountered and understood within the city.
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Retail architecture at the threshold
A shopfront has to belong to a larger building, communicate identity at several distances and form a convincing transition between public circulation and a carefully controlled interior.
That threshold may face a city pavement, an enclosed shopping centre or an exposed retail park. Each condition changes the architectural problem and the way it needs to be photographed.
The resulting sequence moves from wider context and direct elevations to material detail and the interior beyond the door.