Cura Design have a new website with loads of new projects, blogs and information. Considering a possible new shop at the moment....

www.curadesign.com

Cura Design will be giving advice at the Extensions Clinic this weekend in Exeter. Bring your drawings and ideas.

Looking forward towards giving a short talk along with some images and some thoughts at the Biophilia Summit 2025 for the Leadership by Nature segment on 25th September at 2:40.

Topsham, Devon. Cura Design took this from design to completion - 3 Bed house/conservation area built with custom bricks/traditional detailing/ground source heat pump/ solar panels/rainwater harvesting/bee bricks/EPC rating of A. Its carbon negative, it's actually removing 1.6tonnes per year.

Construction week panel discussion on net zero. I think it’s the way buildings are designed that has to change….biodiversity and nature need to be considered first… not last.

I will be at Construction Week at the Excel Centre Thursday 8 May 2025
11:15 – 12:00 participating on a panel discussion for Net Zero - Hope to see you there! :

Designing for a Net Zero Future: Architectural Technology at the Forefront

This was from my recent trip to Japan to see family. Its the temple for the lost children and attached gardens in kamakura. There is a beautiul song by Adrian Freedman about the Jizo Bodhisatvia: adrianfreedman.bandcamp.com/track/jiz-so...

Extension to a listed property in Buckinghamshire with beautiful flint wall that echoes the original home and corten roof. Oak frame extends elements of the original house. All glass bay windows with plants and utilizing bee bricks and bird boxes. PV and air source heat pump -powered by nature.

Director of Cura Design Robert Bedner will be speaking on the Happy Healthy Home Show with Odile Smith on 14 March 2025 at 4pm about biophilic design and current projects at Cura! Join via this link: lnkd.in/ehHJxVyN

Sverre Fehn 1983 by Morten Krogvolds. I remember he didnt like colour architectural photography..it distracted..He liked Balck and White photos on overcast days so not too dramatic..as I get older..maybe something deeper in the shadows and darkness? ....a great photo in any case.

Infill project in London. Green roofs and green walls improve urban air quality air, reduce the need for heating and cooling, reduce stormwater runoff up to 90% and provide habitats for birds, bees, butterflies, and other insects. They also benefit the inhabitants mind body and spirit!

Rope fixings replaced (along with the roof) every 50 years in Japanese farmhouse and persimmons in snow.

Light at sunset coming through the walls of a farmhouse at the open air architecture museum outside of Tokyo.

View of Mt. Fuji from Hachioji...another beautiul clear blue sky day...

When you visit Japan and you think about all the times UK Planners said the trees cant be close to the building you designed....seeing nature and architecture in harmony...

Im off Friday night to Hachioji Japan to see family (and a bit of work for me). Any recommendations for visits to architecture and temples in and around Tokyo greatly appreciated. x

Still "the crisis" of modernity....