Robert is the Stage 5 leader in the Mackintosh School of Architecture and was invited to come office to chat to us about his most recent publication, The Urban Section, which investigates street profiles and city sections from around the world in an attempt to identify best practice for street and city design. His presentation used examples from the book and led to an office wide discussion covering a wide range of topics from the challenges and methodologies for designing urban streetscapes to individual’s personal favourite streets.

For those interested in the book it can be purchased here on the RIBA bookshop website

After winning the bid to redevelop Helensburgh’s historic Hermitage Park for Argyle & Bute Council along with landscape architects, Gillespies, we held another of our regular office-wide design charrettes. Once again a there was a wide range of ideas put forward, from an imposing brick arched structure in the middle of the Park, an extended wall linking the pavilion to the Park entrance, to a timber clad glass box with an intimate walled garden around one of the burns which run through the Park.  The client was delighted with the range and quality of ideas that came forward in the charette and the resultant discussion has led to a reconsideration of the brief and the building’s location.