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Manor Magazine • 12th March 2025

The Green Team

Harris Bugg Studio, a new partnership between landscape designers Hugo Bugg and Charlotte Harris, is leading the duo to create ever more challenging garden vistas. Words by Fiona McGowan.
Manor Magazine • 12th March 2025

Building with Light

Architect Jamie Fobert has always been inspired by art and the spaces that contain it. Fiona McGowan talks to him about his design for the new Tate St Ives gallery.
Manor Magazine • 12th March 2025

Open-air theatre

When it comes to landscape design, Darren Hawkes is one class act, striking gold from Chelsea to Cornwall. Words by Fiona McGowan.
Manor magazine • 31st March 2019

Building with Light

Architect Jamie Fobert has always been inspired by art and the spaces that contain it. Fiona McGowan talks to him about his design for the new Tate St Ives gallery.
Manor magazine • 31st March 2019

Healthy Habitats

As a Devon-based, award-winning RIBA practice, Gale & Snowden has been championing low environmental impact in building and landscape design since 1992. Fiona McGowan hears how the healthy revolution is gaining ground.
Manor magazine • 23rd April 2019

Field of Dreams

Fiona McGowan meets architect James Risebero from Field Studio to learn about the evolution of his eco home in rural South Devon and his aspirations for cultural and social builds in the future.
Manor magazine • 11th January 2017

The Poetics of Space

Architect Alex Michaelis talks to Fiona McGowan about Battersea Power Station, diversification and taking time out in Praa Sands.
Manor magazine • 13th April 2019

Plum Lines

Architect firm Coppin Dockray has won a whopping 11 awards since it was founded in 2012 – including this year’s RIBA South West Award for their renovation of the 1960s Ansty Plum house in Wiltshire. Fiona McGowan talks to co-founder Sandra Coppin about her vision and passion in the world of architecture.
Manor magazine • 30th March 2019

Green Credentials

Tate Harmer build structures that ‘don’t cost the earth’ – literally and metaphorically. Fiona McGowan talks to Jerry Tate and Rory Harmer about their ethical architecture practice. Images courtesy of Tate Harmer.
Manor magazine • 1st September 2015

The Future is Green

As the South West becomes the favourite location for increasing numbers of luxury and high-end ‘eco-homes’, Fiona McGowan investigates whether green really is the new gold standard.
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