It has a cinema, an eight-door Aga, a leather ceiling, a gold-rimmed oculus, an outdoor fireplace – and walls rendered in crushed TV screens. Our writer visits a sparkling giant on the bonny banks of Loch Awe
Denizen Works: in praise of off-kilter creativity
Murray Kerr, founder of architecture practice Denizen Works, shares his purposefully ‘naïve’ approach to design and discusses the challenges of leading his studio off the beaten path 27/01/2021 8:54 am
Towards the end of 2020, an unusual glowing barge took up residence in London’s Hackney Wick. The boat, named Genesis, was actually a floating church – filled with plywood bench pews, a flatpack altar, and an accordion-like roof that can expand and contract like a pair of bellows. The project is the latest in a series of architectural experiments by London studio Denizen Works, which was set up by founder and architect Murray Kerr in 2011.