Elevations vs. perspective drawings
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Nov 17, 20144 min read
Remodelling to add space and beauty.
This project began when our clients visited the Tecton Art gallery, and saw some of our projects on display. It later transpired that...
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Nov 7, 20144 min read
3 reasons for and against open plan homes.
If you follow our blog, you may have noticed that we have recently published a post including photos of an open-plan ground floor for a...
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Oct 31, 20142 min read
How to read architectural plans.
We are currently coming up with different ideas as to how we can present our drawings to lay people, in an easy-to-read manner, which...
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Oct 24, 20141 min read
Modern spaces.
Our client, Glen is a bit of a celebrity in Milton Keynes, having made himself very wealthy by buying, selling and renting property. So...
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Oct 10, 20142 min read
Little known history of Bletchley Park
Bletchley Park fans are abuzz with the launching of the new film The Imitation Game, all about Alan Turing and the code-breaking world...
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vc2043
Sep 29, 20141 min read
Small Spaces
I was recently shown an article in which an American professor has moved into a dumpster (or bin as we know it in the UK) for one year as...
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Sep 12, 20142 min read
Architectural style
A lot of the recent enquiries which we have been receiving here at Building Tectonics have been from clients who may not know exactly...
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vc2043
Jul 22, 20142 min read
Windows
Look around any old town in the UK, and you will see the amazing inventiveness and effort which was put into the design and installation...
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Mar 4, 20143 min read
The problem of inside and outside.
Good design is an amalgam of a building plan which works together with an exterior that looks good. Now, that, of course, is putting it...
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vc2043
Feb 3, 20143 min read
Parapet walls
We have had a couple of projects recently, where clients have requested parapet walls instead of conventional eaves. Parapets are less...
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vc2043
Nov 15, 20132 min read
Bauhaus Architecture
There have been a lot of influential movements throughout history, but this blog is about one art movement in particular – The Bauhaus...
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vc2043
Nov 4, 20133 min read
Designing a home, and the flaws made.
Different people have different views on what the perfect home is, and what is considered ‘flaws’ in that home. In fact, when it comes to...
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vc2043
Oct 28, 20134 min read
Roof trusses
Most modern house roofs use trussed rafters in the construction of the roof. They consist of quite slender pieces of wood, which are...
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vc2043
Oct 14, 20132 min read
What is Secured By Design?
Secured By Design (or SBD) is an initiative which was started in 1989 by the United Kingdom Police, and it is owned by the Association of...
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vc2043
Sep 30, 20132 min read
A well in the kitchen…
The project, in essence, was to extend this 17th century building into the rear garden. Interestingly, there was an old well in that part...
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Sep 27, 20131 min read
Rise cottage; phase 1.
There were many extensions done to this property over time before we were commissioned to work on the project. As a result of these many...
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Sep 13, 20131 min read
The iron garage.
The client on this particular project wanted to have somewhere safe to park their cars and van, somewhere they could lock it up (which...
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vc2043
Sep 6, 20132 min read
Rise cottage; phase two.
It can be quite nice to go back and revisit a project, and reproduce a retrospective. There is one project in particular which comes to...
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vc2043
Aug 21, 20131 min read
Bluebirds Nursing Home Project
PJ Care Ltd in Bletchley, Milton Keynes commissioned Building Tectonics Ltd to design and project manage a 22 bed high dependency...
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