{"id":116972,"date":"2020-06-07T16:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T09:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/no-house-of-straw-sarah-wigglesworths-eco-home-20-years-on\/"},"modified":"2020-06-07T16:08:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T09:08:41","slug":"no-house-of-straw-sarah-wigglesworths-eco-home-20-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/no-house-of-straw-sarah-wigglesworths-eco-home-20-years-on\/","title":{"rendered":"No house of straw: Sarah Wigglesworth's eco-home, 20 years on"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nTwo decades ago, the architect built a groundbreaking green space for living and working. How has \u2018the straw bale house\u2019 endured?\u201cI\u2019m a real believer in trying things,\u201d says the architect Sarah Wigglesworth. \u201cThat\u2019s how you learn. Taking risks is really important. I\u2019m interested in the things that give a kind of joy and maybe disrupt things. I am interested in pushing boundaries. Anything that does that is good.\u201dWigglesworth \u2013 who was appointed MBE in 2004 and became the first woman to receive the Royal Designer for Industry award for architecture in 2012 \u2013 is describing herself, but she could easily be talking about how she designed her home in north London. 9\/10 Stock Orchard Street is the multi-award-winning live\/work space of Wigglesworth and her partner, Jeremy Till. Built 20 years ago, the \u201cstraw bale house\u201d, as it was invariably called, instigated a debate about the aesthetics of eco-architecture. \u201cAt that time,\u201d Wigglesworth recalls, \u201cthe green movement was about dropping out to north Wales or somewhere and building something quite vernacular with your hands. We wanted to make an urbane version of that, in an urban setting.\u201d Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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