How To Make An Impact with Wood Flooring
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When it comes to planning your dream home, you may have already considered the significant impact that flooring.. Continue Reading >
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How needs and desires shape every piece of architecture
10th Jan, 2024
Every building project, no matter how large or small, starts with a need. Sometimes the need is driven by practicality.. Continue Reading >
Eight strategies to reduce energy use in buildings
14th Apr, 2023
“Leading scientists now say that unless we change course drastically, within the lifetime of people alive today, we are heading.. Continue Reading >
How will COVID-19 change what we need from our homes?
21st Apr, 2020
I’ve always said that Communion is privileged to work on the most important spaces in our world – our homes.. Continue Reading >
How do I get planning permission for a barn conversion?
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How to get planning permission for a barn conversion is one of the questions we’re most frequently asked. This article.. Continue Reading >
The layout of space
11th Sep, 2019
Once the fundamentals of the design of the site are established, the choreography of everyday life is the next thing.. Continue Reading >
The fundamentals of design
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The most successful changes to your space take into account the things you cannot change. There are only a few.. Continue Reading >
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Podcast 4: The Creation of an Accessible Community Hub
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Welcome to the Take a Pew Tearoom at St Michael & All Angels, a 12th century church.. Continue Reading >
Fulfilling Building Regulations requirements on a building project
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When people are thinking about choosing us as their architect, they understandably have lots of questions. Many of.. Continue Reading >
Podcast 3: Extending a Twentieth Century Home to Embrace a Twenty First Century Lifestyle
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Our clients, Sophie, Chris and their two children relocated to a beautiful village.. Continue Reading >
Podcast 2: Transforming a 1970s House for the Third Age
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Our clients relocated from their countryside home into a market town, where they found a 1970s house,.. Continue Reading >
How we help clients navigate design decisions
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One of the things people find surprising about a building project is how many decisions there are to be.. Continue Reading >
How we help clients prepare for the journey of their project
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“We found you really easy to work with, very ‘user-friendly’, and the process felt like a.. Continue Reading >
Podcast 1: A Historic House in Herefordshire
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Alex invites you to pull up a chair and enter a conversation with Susanna and James who bought a.. Continue Reading >
What is it like to commission an architect-designed home?
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In architecture there is typically a focus on the finished buildings and the architects themselves. However, we.. Continue Reading >
Why work with Communion Architects?
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For us, seeing a project move from being a few lightly sketched needs and desires to being a completed building is.. Continue Reading >
What does good client-architect communication look like in a church re-ordering project?
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This piece was originally written for a resource kit developed by Hereford Diocese and due for.. Continue Reading >
The three elements that sit at the heart of a successful church re-ordering project
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I have been fortunate enough to be the lead architect on numerous church.. Continue Reading >
A new floor for St Mary’s in Maidenhead
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We are privileged to be working on the re-ordering of St Mary’s Church in Maidenhead. This time-lapse video.. Continue Reading >
What can and can’t you do with listed buildings?
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Listed buildings are one of our greatest cultural assets. They are extraordinarily evocative places and to have.. Continue Reading >
Will my home extension be worth it?
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Many of our home extension clients ask the same question: Does a home extension make financial sense? It’s a good.. Continue Reading >
Which is more sustainable: refurbishing or rebuilding?
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Whether it is more environmentally sustainable to refurbish or rebuild is a question that affects all buildings that need.. Continue Reading >
How can I identify and stick to my budget?
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Understanding the finances of your project and having financial visibility is one of the most important things.. Continue Reading >
Seven tips for making a space feel bigger
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When you’re thinking about a home extension, it is very easy to think you should add as much.. Continue Reading >
Taking responsibility for health and safety
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New regulations were introduced in 2015 to improve health and safety in the building industry. They recognise that people who.. Continue Reading >
The power and practicalities of participative architecture
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Working with communities, as we do when working with church buildings, has unique challenges that are completely different to.. Continue Reading >
How can churches be better cared for and used for the common good?
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Here are some figures that are difficult to balance. Only 5% of people regularly.. Continue Reading >
Building relationships
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Communion’s mission statement is “Working closely with people to deliver exceptional projects that transform spaces and change lives.” Each of our architects draws on.. Continue Reading >
