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10 March 2022
Modern Houses Spring Back 3: Crystal Palace, Suffolk Lecture
James gives a talk to the C20th Society on Crystal Palace (website)
The architect James Soane talks about a refurbishment project in 2014 for the sensational Crystal Palace House originally by Hopkins.
1 February 2022
Todays Traveller, India
Project Orange designs new ITC LEED platinum Hotel (website)
In line with ITC’s Hotel’s credo of ‘Responsible Luxury’, Welcomhotel Guntur is also committed to the highest levels of environmental stewardship. The hotel is powered by renewable energy sourced from ITC’s own wind energy farm near Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh.
8 January 2022
Orange but with green credentials
Practice Profile 2022 (PDF)
Project Orange speak about the climate crisis and their future direction
1 January 2022
Heaven and Hell Interview with Gina Long
Interview with James and Christopher (website)
James and Christopher talk about their love of Suffolk and why they relocated to Lavenham
23 December 2021
Room2 opens "world's first whole-life net-zero hotel" in Chiswick
Room 2 Chiswick profiled in Dezeen (website)
Hospitality brand Room2 has opened what it claims is the first hotel to reach net-zero emissions across its entire lifespan from construction to demolition.
20 December 2021
RIBA Suffolk Awards
Grove Cottage wins RIBA Award (website)
the refurbishment of Grove Cottage, Lavenham, Garners an RIBA Design Award
20 December 2021
RIBAJ
From Brunel to Bono, planning permissions give culture a lead (website)
Historic tram sheds, service buildings, and cottage in Dalkey – a suburb to the South of Dublin where the Bay meets the Irish Sea – is soon to be reborn as a mixed-use scheme of food, drink, offices, retail, and culture set around a new cobbled public square.
3 September 2021
Architecture LGBT+ presents ‘Designing Out’
Exhibition at ROCA Gallery (website)
James Soane presents: ‘Out of Practice: Manifestos for an LSA Education’ – London School of Architecture
4 April 2021
This contemporary home in a historic town is a modern masterpiece inside
Orange Cottage - 15 years on (website)
Sensitive design allows a contemporary house to sit happily amid its medieval neighbours in the historic Suffolk town of Lavenham
1 November 2020
Cultivate the Contrast
The Black Barn in Suffolk is published in Modern Rustic (PDF)
Black sinusoidal steel cladding stays faithful to the building’s unfussy, agricultural roots as a humble pre-war barn to house livestock, with sliding doors opening onto a courtyard.
20 October 2020
Me and My House. The Crystal Palace
C20th Society Magazine Feature (PDF)
Project Orange talk about the challenges and rewards of renovating the 1978 Hopkins designed glass house.
1 October 2020
Pop Art and Big Personalities
Project Orange at the RA Summer Exhibition (website)
It was good to see Project Orange’s uplifting reimaging of the Thamesmead estate in south east London
16 April 2020
Architecture in the Age of Climate Emergency
Architecture Foundation 100 Days Talks (website)
James speaks about the challenges facing architects in the climate crisis
1 April 2020
Orszageputo, Hungary
West Stow Lodge: Eternal Value (PDF)
Profile featuring the new-build traditional but contemporary house at West Stow
31 March 2020
How Nhow
Space Magazine focus on Nhow London (website)
"Designed by architecture and interiors studio, Project Orange, they blend punk and high-tech styles to unique effect."
27 February 2020
Architecture Today
Cool and Collected (website)
James Soane of Project Orange enjoys creating a collage of materials
10 February 2020
Seeds of Change
Grove Cottage , Lavenham, features in Modern Rustic (PDF)
An Edwardian cottage in Suffolk conceals a glass and metal extension, which seamlessly unites its inside and outside worlds
3 December 2019
Architects' Journal
Self-build Project Orange-designed house replaces redundant barn in Suffolk (website)
This steel-frame, aluminium-clad house replaces a utilitarian precast concrete and asbestos structure in an agricultural-to-domestic PDR transformation.
23 October 2019
New ways: How an architect is rethinking custom-build
The AJ look at PO’s self build scheme in Norfolk (website)
"The project at Ingoldisthorpe signposts an innovative direction of travel for rural housing in the UK."
26 September 2019
Architecture Foundation
I get so emotional baby (website)
James Soane of Project Orange reflects on the challenge to the profession presented by the current environmental and climate crisis.
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