{"id":26692,"date":"2011-02-03T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/a-grand-design-for-failure\/"},"modified":"2016-09-21T03:15:24","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T20:15:24","slug":"a-grand-design-for-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/a-grand-design-for-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"A Grand Design for failure"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWhy 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 \u00a380,000 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…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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