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4th July 2024

The RIBA Elections: A Missed Opportunity for Sustainable Change

As an architect, I find myself deeply frustrated by the recent RIBA elections. Out of approximately 44,000 registered architects, only 4,462...

1st February 2023

The need for better housing

Almost lost over the Christmas period was an article published by the BBC, reporting that Secretary of State for Levelling Up,...

10th October 2022

The Kentish New House October 2022

The Kentish New House Due for completion late 2023. From site clearance, to first floor:  And for comparison, the visual:...

9th June 2022

Excellence Awards 2022

We were so pleased and excited to open this envelope!  Just to have been shortlisted is amazing. What Schuco say: The...

26th April 2022

PV Power

Toward the end of February, we were fortunate enough to travel abroad again, to France to visit family – it was...

16th February 2022

The Kentish New House February 2022

February 2022: Piling The second timelapse, this one showing the formation of the piled foundations.   

6th February 2022

We are hiring

We are looking for a Part 2 / 3 Architect / Technologist to join our friendly, enthusiastic, awesome team. Interested? We...

29th December 2021

The Kentish New House December 2021

We’re excited to share the first of a series of time lapse videos which will record the building of The Kentish...

2nd April 2021

Appealing

The appeal is allowed and planning permission is granted… Such utterly thrilling words that provide justification for experience, hard work, and...

15th March 2021

World Book Day

As part of World Book Day 2021, I was fortunate to be asked by Home Interiors writer, Rachael Hale, to take...

26th February 2021

Architect Wanted

We are looking for an experienced Architect to join our small, design focused practice in Edenbridge, Kent.  Ideally with a...

7th January 2021

cock-a-hoop

adjective extremely and obviously pleased, especially about an achievement.   It’s always a bit of a thrill to see a project...

22nd December 2020

Merry Christmas!

30th November 2020

Planning Permission Approved for New Home in the Green Belt and AONB

A Kentish Home. We are thrilled to have received Planning Permission for a new five-bedroom contemporary home.  The site is located...

23rd October 2020

Getting back to nature.

Beginning at Turner and Hoskins Architects a little over a year ago one of the first projects I had the...

1st June 2020

C25K

…better known as couch to 5km.  This is not one of our usual blogs, but is here to encourage anyone thinking...

15th May 2020

Recycling is good

We all know that recycling is good for the environment.  How about these beauties?  Up for grabs, are some Mid-Century Modern...

24th April 2020

What lies beneath…?

Chances are, if your ground floor has timber floor boards, there is a space underneath.  Usually, this isn’t too large, and...

22nd January 2020

In the country

Working in a Conservation Area can bring challenges – especially when creating new homes.  The development of a redundant area of...

16th December 2019

Merry Christmas!

15th November 2019

Ashdown Annex

We are so pleased to receive Planning Permission today for Clients for a new two-bedroom annex in the Ashdown Forest. This...

31st October 2019

If you go down to the woods today…

We’re thrilled Planning Permission has been granted for two eco-tourist cabins we have designed within the South Downs National Park. We...

30th September 2019

Helsinki

Helsinki – A learning adventure and architectural safari (written by Vicki Turner) When the email dropped into my inbox telling me...

5th April 2019

Illuminating…

Often on a project, we will be asked to incorporate something that a Client already has or might be thinking...

4th March 2019

Concrete – dividing opinion for decades – Part 2

In the first part of this exploration into the history of the most widely used construction material in the world,...

5th February 2018

Setting the Standard

RIBA stands for Royal Institute of British Architects and here at Turner and Hoskins, we’re delighted to have renewed our...

18th January 2019

We’re hiring! Architectural Technician

Turner & Hoskins Architects is a small architectural practice based in Kent close to the Surrey and Sussex borders. We...

4th December 2018

Happy Christmas

With the angelic host proclaim…   Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year, from all at Turner & Hoskins Architects

30th November 2018

Design Matters

A recent RIBA report entitled ‘Design Matters’1 has revealed that only 1 in 4 people would choose to live in a...

9th October 2018

Listen, do you want to know a secret…?

Functionality and rural aesthetics As a forward-thinking architectural practice, it’s not at all paradoxical that our work is as much...

18th September 2018

Skyscrapers, jazz, and deep dish pizzas.

We visited Chicago in late August.  After the sultry pavement heat of New York and the fresh greenery of rural...

31st August 2018

Fallingwater

Vicki and Tim love looking at buildings, and this can mean that their son has been along for...

22nd June 2018

The joy of client meetings

  I’m sitting on a train, on my way back to the office from a meeting with former clients about...

16th May 2018

Concrete – the marmite of the built environment – Part 1

Love it or hate it, concrete is here to stay and despite a commonly-held notion that it epitomises modernity, its history...

10th April 2018

Recognising the need: ergonomics and anthropometrics in architectural design

‘Recognising the need is the primary condition for design,’ Charles Eames   Here at Turner & Hoskins, that’s a philosophy which...

28th March 2018

Proactive about passive solar design

Traditionally, most of the world’s energy supply has been generated from fossil fuels like coal, oil and natural gas....

27th February 2018

The History of Bricks, Part 2

‘The problem of architecture as I see it is the problem of all art – the elimination of the human element...

18th January 2018

The History of Bricks, Part 1

Give me a brick and it becomes worth its weight in gold.   We’ve never actually promised any of our clients...

29th December 2017

Projects on the listed list

Over the years, we’ve been engaged to modify many listed buildings. We consider it a privilege, not to mention a...

28th November 2017

The mixed blessing of listed buildings

What a great privilege and joy it is to own a listed property, an architectural treasure, with its own fascinating story...

13th October 2017

Changing Places, transforming lives

While every project we undertake is designed to make a difference to people’s lives by providing beautiful and functional living spaces,...

29th September 2017

Here’s one we made earlier…

…and guaranteed free of sticky-back plastic and empty washing-up liquid bottles in its construction.   We love to show you our...

22nd August 2017

Flying high

We like to keep up with technological innovations, and using a drone to record the substantial alterations we made to...

24th July 2017

Loosening the Green Belt

Loosening the Green Belt Current planning controls and emerging policies Earlier this year, Sajid Javid, the Communities and Local Government Secretary,...

30th June 2017

The Green Belt

Why is the Green Belt there? First, the flippant, if slightly inaccurate, answer which we couldn’t quite resist. The green belt...

31st May 2017

Two in Two

Any planning permission can feel like a bit of a triumph.  It’s a great stage to reach.  It conveys permission for a...

27th April 2017

Sussex Digital Awards – Winner!

Bronze Award in the ‘responsive website’ category At the Sussex Digital Awards dinner in Lewes, we were delighted to collect the...

25th March 2017

Butterfly Roof

One of the joys of being architects is to work closely with our clients to create beautiful places to live. On...

27th February 2017

Sussex Digital Awards 2017 Finalist!

What a lovely email to drop into the Inbox – notification that our website has been submitted into the Sussex Digital Awards,...

18th January 2017

Shed and buried.

Shed and buried?  A reference to the previous shed on the site, and the new sunken wine cellar in the garden...

21st December 2016

Happy Christmas

If you find your home is too small at Christmas to accommodate all of those guests, give us a call in...

24th November 2016

When in Rome…

The Eternal City…. Rome is called the Eternal City because ancient Romans believed that no matter what happened to the world or how many...

28th October 2016

Little Metal Tardis

Why a Tardis?  Because from the outside, it looks quite a lot smaller than it really is.  But that was thanks...

12th September 2016

Smallest. Extension. Ever.

Small, but perfectly formed. Here’s something a little different.  Adding only 3sq.m of additional space, the first floor extension to this...

15th August 2016

Little Yellow Kitchen

With a 1950’s aesthetic, this kitchen diner was only possible once the original bathroom has been relocated to the first floor....

16th July 2016

Winners! Sustainable Building Awards 2016

Well, it’s not quite an Olympic Medal (#RioOlympics), but that was a bit of a surprise! Whilst sustainable design isn’t something...

1st June 2016

New House, Felbridge

Planning Permission Granted for a new 4 bedroom detached house in Felbridge, West Sussex.  The proposed four-bedroom detached house seeks to...

3rd May 2016

Private House, Winchester

Affectionately known as ‘The Space Between’, the project sought to utilise the redundant coal store and outside loo to the side...

8th April 2016

City University London

Completed in 2011, the project involved extensive alterations to the layout of the existing floor plan to form a new...

8th March 2016

Private House 2, Crystal Palace

Almost opposite Private House 1 in Crystal Palace, work comprised the extension of the existing house at the side and rear...

3rd February 2016

Private House 1, Crystal Palace

Work included the extension of the existing kitchen to the side and rear of the existing house utilising existing space...

3rd January 2016

Private House, Wandsworth

Gaining planning consent on Appeal, the project extended the existing house to infill space between the house and its neighbour. ...