Property News · February 3, 2011

A Grand Design for failure


Why this beached boat is actually an architectural triumphA rusting old barge has been found washed up on an Essex beach. It’s all that remains of a house renovation project that featured on the television show Grand Designs in 2007. Here’s how presenter Kevin McCloud might have reported the news:I first met Chris Miller and his wife, Sze Liu Lai, four years ago. They had a dream. They were going to leave their small flat in central London to convert a rusting Thames barge into a houseboat to provide an environmentally friendly, three-bedroomed home for them and their two young children. At the time I had my doubts whether they could pull this off. Their £80,000 budget seemed perilously tight and with no architect on site to supervise the construction, the project had more of the feel of a Scrapheap Challenge than a Grand Design. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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