Architect: Clancy Moore Architects
Clancy Moore: Less is more
24 May 2022
Clancy Moore: Less is more24 May 2022
This linked text is part of an ongoing series that records the building projects undertaken at Shatwell Farm. For more on the Shatwell Project, click here.
The Extended Portal: Atcost
28 February 2022
The Extended Portal: Atcost28 February 2022
On Shatwell farm, two barns stand side by side. The frames of both are precast concrete portal frames, made by Atcost in line with their standard profile and system which existed at the time. [1] A central line of columns is shared between both barns. Due to differing spans, the… Read More
Clancy Moore Architects: Atcost
20 September 2021
Clancy Moore Architects: Atcost20 September 2021
– Andrew Clancy and Colm Moore
The Atcost project makes space for storage, education and performance, enabling a diverse range of activities to enhance the growing programme of Drawing Matter: summer schools, events, and away days for universities and practices. After noticing that the vast majority of these activities take place in summer, we proposed an… Read More
Alternative Histories: Clancy Moore Architects on Joseph Paxton
14 February 2019
Alternative Histories: Clancy Moore Architects on Joseph Paxton14 February 2019
‘Every element of its construction speaks for itself alone.’ So wrote Gottfried Semper of the Caribbean hut he had seen in the Crystal Palace, and which he used to describe the four elements of architecture. Paxton’s patent drawings and text describe a fragment of the roof that sheltered Semper, the… Read More
Clancy Moore Architects: Conversation Pieces
1 April 2018
Clancy Moore Architects: Conversation Pieces1 April 2018
I have seen the photographs. Architect couples sketching side by side, a shared arm at work. We do not work like this. We sit on opposite sides of a table. This is not to set up some easy argument of oppositions. Instead it is intended to enable a conversation. Generally an existing drawing is… Read More