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Habitats

Four years and three budgets. It opened on a Saturday with a tournament booked in.

What we charged, what we paid, and the gap between the two, set out as last year.

The last of the laminated frames went up this week, which means the roof line is now the one that was drawn.

Eleven meetings, two of them difficult, and a plan that is better for having been argued over in a cold hall on winter evenings, with the heating off and the drawings taped to the wall.

Recognition for the sports hall, the wharekura and a small house, which between them cover most of the studio's work.

A short piece on why we keep returning to the same structural material, where it still lets us down, what we have learned to do about it, and where we would choose something else next time.

Finished eighteen months ago, lived in ever since, and only now sitting still long enough to be photographed properly, with the garden grown in and the rooms as they are actually used rather than as they were drawn.

One position, starting when the right person is found rather than on a fixed date, with work on all three current buildings.