8 December 2011
Wallpaper* magazine
Wallpaper* magazine publish picture of Makiko & Kieran with 4 other practices in the Architecture Gallery at the V&A with short article about projects.
7 December 2011
Kitchen / dining / living alterations
Work nears completion on this small project for kitchen / dining / living alterations.
2 December 2011
Sketch design
Sketch design work on a small house alterations project.
28 November 2011
Pepakura
Working on some iterations of form for a small children’s nursery using the fantastic Pepakura designer which allows you to make very quick paper models from 3D computer models.
23 November 2011
Saltire Housing Award commendation
Konishi Gaffney Architects won a prestigious Saltire Housing Award commendation for the Bath Street Window project.
The Saltire Awards are 75 years old and the most prestigious awards in Scotland. We are delighted to have won having been shortlisted for the Japanese House in 2010. Congratulations to the builder Watson & Lyall who were there to pick up the award and the structural engineer Tall Engineers.
15 November 2011
Minka
Kieran is introducing Minka a short documentary by Davina Pardo of Birldings Films at the Edinburgh Architecture Association on Wednesday 30th November 2011.
11 November 2011
Willowbrae update
Progress on our project in Willowbrae, Edinburgh. Here new steel beams are encased in plasterboard to give short fire resistance.
7 November 2011
Greenhill Place
Photographer Alan Craigie took some great pictures of our Greenhill Place kitchen doors, nicknamed Alice in Wonderland doors as the scale of the opening is so large.
28 October 2011
Letter of the week
Kieran wrote to the AJ about the Doolan RIAS best building in Scotland Prize and was published as letter of the week. We are looking forward to an honorary AJ china mug in the post!
26 October 2011
Ceramic tile
We spent two week in France over the summer with our friend Frances Doherty, she “encourgaed” me into making a ceramic tile (all her guests do) and has now posted it on her pottery blog. Mine is a maquette of the entry sequence to our Fermanagh house.
Frances makes incredible ceramic sculptures (see her blue bells for example) which are a hand made version of biomimicry | parametricism. The sculptural repetition has an architectural power that I am trying to find a way of using on a building scale.
24 October 2011
Sutherland visit
Just back from an extraordinary week visiting Sutherland (the far North West of Scotland) we had never been before and were overawed by the landscape. Really want to work in this area – so if you have a project let us know!
16 September 2011
Canted House
Working up presentation drawings of our Canted House. Project listing to follow.
13 September 2011
Timber clad extension
Planning application for small, affordable timber clad extension and alterations to this existing house in Portobello goes in.
2 September 2011
Green hill doors
This project is a very simple design solution – a set of 3m high doors for a kitchen, out the garden. One thinner door opens in, the other larger door opens out.
The Client loves it and claims it has radically changed their house and how they live, which is why I love domestic architecture; small changes can make a disproportionate difference.
31 August 2011
TV interview
Interview on local TV station, URTV, about the Kilcreggan Competion win.
30 August 2011
Saltire Housing Design Awards
The 2011 Saltire Housing Design Awards shortlist was announced today. Our £25K Bath Street Window is up against strong competition so we’re not holding our breath…Nice to be recognised though after our Japanese House made the 2010 shortlist.
22 August 2011
Kilcreggan – a future for rural communities
Konishi Gaffney architects presented on Saturday evening to the community and 6 judges in Kilcreggan village hall, we had expected 15-20 people so were pleased and surprised to see a packed hall. We were very pleased to have won from a large number of entrants (the shortlist was 6 from 56) and look forward to working with a very intelligent (and forthright) community lead by the Rosneath Peninsula West Community Development Trust.
This image of proposed beach and pool in the bay, located on the Highland boundary fault line.
Thanks to the Glasgow Institute of Architects for a very well run competition. Full results here.
11 August 2011
Kilcreggan – a future for rural communities
Shortlisted for GIA run design competition: Kilcreggan – a future for rural communities. Presentation and judging on the 20th August 2011.
1 August 2011
Dwell Magazine
Published in US based Dwell Magazine and parodied in Unhappy Hipsters whose tagline “It’s lonely in the modern world” we love. Pictures by Ben Anders.
29 June 2011
Trinity project update
Sedum roof matting installed on Friday on our Trinity project. The green cable in a temporary watering supply mechanism (hence also the water in the valley gutter).
25 June 2011
Riverside Museum
Visited Zaha Hadid’s Riverside Museum in Glasgow. Great building.
22 June 2011
House in Fermanagh
At the summer soltice it’s hard to remember what noon on January 2nd looked like. Here it is, when we visited the new site for a house in Fermanagh. The house we designed, under wraps for now, is currently in for planning which is an interminably long process in Northern Ireland.
10 June 2011
Trinity House update
ScotLarch cladding at the listed Trinity House.
7 June 2011
Art of Leith
Art of Leith Exhibition opens.
3 June 2011
Saltire Housing award
Shortlisted for a second Saltire Housing award in a row for our tiny Bath Street Window project. The last set of Judges from the EAA didn’t visit in the end which was very disappointing.
27 May 2011
Art of Leith
Art of Leith Exhibition poster uses our Fermanagh House image. Please come along to the exhibition and to the Open Studios day.
17 May 2011
BetonHala Exhibition Centre Competition
BetonHala Exhibition Centre Competition winners announced.
10 May 2011
Model display
Cleared Fraser’s desk today by [finally] getting these models up on the wall.
9 May 2011
Beautiful Kitchens
Our Bath Street Window makes the cover of Beautiful Kitchens Magazine.
7 April 2011
Scottish Larch cladding
Scottish Larch cladding from Russwood sample panel approved by client today.
31 March 2011
Competition proposal
Competition proposal, first model images.
17 March 2011
Trinity extension
Site progress on our Trinity extension – cladding panels going on and ground levelled.
14 March 2011
Matsushima tsunami update
Matsushima, where we lived for three years appears largely to have missed the main tsunami demolition. Aerial photo montage post-tsunami 14th March 2011. CLICK HERE for very large image (may take a few minutes). 5KM to the East Higashi-matsushima looks like this.
1 March 2011
Model
Sketch model for new house in Ireland.
21 February 2011
Trinity extension
Site progress on our Trinity extension.
17 February 2011
EAA small projects award 2011
Shortlisted for an EAA small projects award 2011 for the Bath Street Window project.
7 February 2011
Bo Bedre
Our Japanese House published by Danish / Norweigen design magazine Bo Bedre.
4 February 2011
Kengo Kuma interview
In Tokyo for three weeks (as Thomas Heatherwick would say “on a research trip”). Met and interviewed architect Kengo Kuma today for a magazine article about his brilliant competition winning project for the V&A in Dundee.
3 February 2011
The Architects Journal
Our Bath Street Window published on the cover of The Architects Journal as part of the shortlist for the small projects award 2011.
24 January 2011
EAA small projects award
EAA small projects award submission deadline today.
21 January 2011
Fermanagh house model
First sketch model of our Fermanagh house, thinking about cob, straw bale or clay daub textures.
12 January 2011
Japanese house
Japanese house published as a budget self build home, see press for full article.
9 January 2011
Walk-a-chat group
Joined the walk-a-chat group climbing the unpronounceable Stuc an Lochain. We had really amazing weather (clear blue skies and no wind) as we climbed through thick snow chatting about art’n’stuff.
