3 favourite specifications

The venerable RIBA Journal asked us to share our 3 favourite specifications.

External insulation

External insulation to an old Victorian cottage. Planning to do more of this: an easy and efficient way to insulate existing buildings. Here we have a further counter batten and more insulation to go on top.

Picture window

Extension with a big picture window starts to take shape.

Construction

I tend to like buildings in construction as much as when finished. Here green pressure treated battens and light from the roof.

Skylight

We currently have 4 projects in various stages of construction. This one in the Grange area of Edinburgh topping out next week with a huge skylight.

Sandblasted timber

We are sandblasting larch cladding to raise the grain on a small house extension in Edinburgh, then washing the cladding black. It’s very exciting.

Detail

German architecture magazine Detail, publishes our Dormer project over 4 pages. That is definitely a career goal achieved!

Grand Designs

Galashields

We’ve been very busy recently working on some exciting projects. This one a house in Galashields in the Scottish Borders on a very steep site.

Sunday Times Home Magazine

We had some good press recently. The Sunday Times found us to be in the top 10 “architect provocateurs” in the UK. Especially good as 8 of the 10 were London based and we were the only practice from Scotland.

EAA small projects award shortlist

We’ve been shortlisted for an EAA small projects award for this garden office & house alteration in Portobello in Edinburgh. We are currently working as Architects in Fife.

Dezeen

Our dormer in Regent Street is published on Dezeen.

AJ small projects award shortlist

We’ve been shortlisted for the prestigious AJ small projects award [and on valentines day, can’t you feel the love?].

New offices

Konishi Gaffney are moving to our own new and bigger offices [17th Century former thatched cottage].

132 Constitution Street, Edinburgh, EH6 6AJ.
All other contact details remaining the same.

Maquette

Makiko’s maquette for folding furniture at 1:15.

EAA small projects award submissions

Rosefield and Regent St Dormer projects submitted for the EAA small projects award.

Regent Street dormer

Our Regent Street dormer in the Architect’s Journal Building Library. Link (but may require a login).

Village Hall, Heriot

We are very pleased to have been invited along with 5 other (bigger and longer established) pratices to submit design ideas in a design competition for the reburbishment and extension of the Village Hall in Heriot, Scottish Borders.

Euan Gray

Welcome to our new employee, Euan Gray, a brilliant young architect aiming to get his part III with us. Euan’s career has been varied & hands on including this yoga studio (pictured above) which he designed and self built as owner of the wildhutte design company.

Euan’s experience and personal research into hutting ties in with our interests and I hope Euan will push on our research in that field.

Euan’s pechakucha about hutting in February 2012.

Konishi Gaffney are Award Winning Edinburgh Architects also working in The Scottish Borders, Fife & East Lothian.