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Kate Macintosh: ‘The idea that everyone should have decent housing is just a given’ Alpa Depani talks to the retired but still-campaigning 83-year-old about her career and projects As part of the W Awards programme, Kate Macintosh will be speaking today (11.03) at 5pm at the Jane Drew Prize for Architecture event – How does it feel to have won this year’s Jane Drew Prize? I can still hardly believe it. It was a bolt from the blue. When I studied at Edinburgh, Jane Drew was one of the very few women architects I had heard of. She was definitely an inspiration to me. ....
Environmentally, retrofit makes sense and for designers there is so much opportunity Weston Adventure Playground. Macintosh says: ‘Internally there is a mezzanine level with a bench running all the way along the main space, where the children who were less rumbustious or more reflective could retreat and do their homework in a more secluded area.’ Source: Joe Low Done judiciously and sensitively, retrofit is one of the biggest contributions the construction sector can make to help reduce embodied carbon, writes Emily Booth The picture of a child hurtling through the air, hair flying, on a zip wire at Finch Macintosh’s Weston Adventure Playground encapsulates the pure joy that a wonderful experience of a place can bring – plus the freedom that we probably all wish we had more of right now. Kate Macintosh, winner of this year’s Jane Drew Prize, has always put community at the heart of her work and embraced issues of environmental and social susta ....
Show Fullscreen Cressingham Gardens was built between 1969 and 1979 to the designs of Ted Hollamby A 20-home scheme which will require part of Tulse Hill’s historic Cressingham Gardens estate to be demolished has been recommended for approval by Lambeth council. The four-storey Conran and Partners-designed block on Roper’s Walk for the council’s in-house housing firm Homes for Lambeth will replace two lower-rise blocks consisting of 14 homes, the first part of the estate to be redeveloped. It has provoked a searing backlash from Cressingham Gardens residents, who have been engaged in a near 10-year campaign to save the 306-home estate since the council first earmarked it for redevelopment in 2012. ....
The surprising slice of Italy in southeast London Dawson Heights has become a place of architectural pilgrimage The architect, Kate Macintosh, designed Dawson Heights aged only 26 Where I live in southeast London, a pair of asymmetrical housing blocks dominate the horizon. They peek over hilltops and around corners. They’re like a portrait whose eyes follow you around a room. The past year has provided the lemons (no travel) to create lemonade (exploring close to home), thus I set out to discover more about Dawson Heights (1964-72), a pair of ziggurats built on a spoil heap. Less well-known than other modernist masterpieces, they’ve become a place of architectural pilgrimage, described as resembling battleships, Italian hilltop towns, castles, and Inca pyramids. ....