in Comment, Environment
As a committed environmentalist and passionate advocate for wood, it is the genuine green credentials of the material that inspire me. But it also clearly inspires the marketing gurus of other industries as well. An increasing...
in Events, Species focus
Last year we met the "Grand Designs" presenter Kevin McCloud at the Guardian Hay Festival; when he saw the outdoor seating installation in treated American tulipwood that we had created in collaboration with the...
in Comment
On Friday I watched the first in a new BBC series on "ancient crafts" presented by Monty Don. This week the focus was the art of "bodging" which to you and me translates as "green wood working". It...
in Comment, Environment
I regard myself as a true "woody" so I get so frustrated when non-wood materials or products claim to be so much greener. It is a fact that wood is renewable, it stores carbon and has a very low embodied energy in most...
in Events, Species focus, Architecture and Design
I had dinner last week in Milan with a good friend and editor of a great architectural title "Plan" magazine. Nicola had seen my presentation at the MADEexpo show where I had shown a wide range of architectural projects...