Kings Road House / Matthew Giles ArchitectsSave this picture! French + TyeArchitects: Matthew Giles ArchitectsAreaArea of this architecture projectArea:299 mYearCompletion year of this architecture project Year: 2023 PhotographsPhotographs:French + TyeManufacturersBrands with products used in this architecture project Manufacturers: Wienerberger, L2iMore SpecsLess SpecsSave this picture!Text description provided by the architects. Overlooking the South Park Gardens in Wimbledon, south London, this Edwardian house has been transformed in every possible way. Through a tactile and warm approach to massing and architectural detailing, this bold yet quietly resolving family home now enhances the character of the street and is a contemporary equivalent to the traditional brick homes along Kings Road. The client is a family of four with two young children who approached Matthew Giles Architects to develop designs to extend, remodel and refurbish their home. Having recently purchased a dilapidated building in a part of London they wanted to live in, the client saw an opportunity to create a truly bespoke family home. A schedule of spaces required was provided, and they expressed an interest in modifying the appearance of the building externally while improving the thermal efficiency of their detached home.Save this picture!Save this picture!Following a study of local Victorian buildings, the architects developed a modern interpretation of the traditional brick homes along Kings Road, re-establishing the design principles of the South Park Gardens Conservation area by reinstating brickwork to all faades in place of white renderings. Replacing the previously unkept garage and half turret is a bold new series of front, side and rear extensions, alongside a new sheltered front porch and a bay window. At the rear, a full-width dormer has drastically expanded the internal living spaces, together with an inset dormer/balcony to the front roof slope which opens out the surrounding park.Save this picture!A new masonry canopy unifies the front elevation and was designed to emulate traditional brick banding across surrounding Victorian houses. A new sheltered front porch is carefully articulated using heavy masonry elements and poured in-situ concrete, leading the visitor towards the front door. Chamfered edges are a consistent form throughout the home and entice views while reducing the impact on neighbours. A textured limewash process known in Scandinavia as 'Skkeskuring' was used over the face of the brick to add to the now monolithic appearance. To establish a continuity of language, the rear faade and side elevation treatment feature the same limewashed brick finish while gutters are concealed behind parapets and deep reveals to create a sense of robust solidity. A first-floor rear bay window is angled away from overlooking neighbouring extensions, enhancing views and privacy, while beneath this within the punctured extension, an internal planted lightwell is positioned between the study and garden-facing seating area to separate work, dining, and lounge while supporting cross ventilation.Save this picture!Save this picture!The L-shaped rear extensions make the most of the sunlight throughout the day, and the complete overhaul has resulted in the now warm and bright living space, which centres around connection, quality and texture. Fun is had with a playful kite-shaped roof light and a sculptural, turned oak handrail that signals the passage upstairs. The front chimney breast has been retained, providing a memory of the original house, drawing the eye up through the building. Exposed elements contrast the new building fabric, with a simple interior material palette providing a strong focus on quality and texture including bespoke joinery throughout designed by Matthew Giles Architects, maintaining a consistency of language internally.Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!Parts of the front and rear walls have also been retained, along with the first-floor floor structure and as many internal partitions as possible. Moreover, the entire house has been insulated on the outside of the existing solid brickwork walls with an insulated brick slip system, Eurobrick, which offers significantly better thermal efficiency than insulating on the inside with insulated plasterboard. The new EPC score is now 'C' rated - the highest possible rating without renewable energy systems: a radical increase on the previous 'F' rated EPC before the works.Save this picture!The remodelled Kings Road House is a world away from the building the clients purchased designed to exacting requirements providing generous living spaces full of warmth and life. The top floor roof space now houses 3 bedrooms and a bathroom with an open mezzanine accessed via the birch ply-lined hallway. The new house does not feel grand, but rather an exemplar of natural, sustainable materials that stands as an ornament for the area. Matthew Giles, Founder & Architect at Matthew Giles Architects, said, "The success of Kings Road is a result of a client who had the vision to support a bold architectural solution to the site constraints. Our whole house retrofit has not only repurposed the best parts of the home and radically boosted environmental performance, but it has also delivered a large new family home full of warmth and life, which sits contextually within the South Park Gardens Conservation area and enhances the local area."Save this picture!Project gallerySee allShow lessProject locationAddress:London, United KingdomLocation to be used only as a reference. It could indicate city/country but not exact address.About this officeMaterialBrickMaterials and TagsPublished on November 18, 2024Cite: "Kings Road House / Matthew Giles Architects" 18 Nov 2024. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1023615/kings-road-house-matthew-giles-architects&gt ISSN 0719-8884Save!ArchDaily?You've started following your first account!Did you know?You'll now receive updates based on what you follow! Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors, offices and users.Go to my stream

Microsoft Ignite is on this week. Its the companys massive event focused on IT professionals. While you can attend this event remotely, you should consider attending in person this year because I still see far more AI failures than successes. When AI is deployed successfully, it has a significant positive impact on productivity, yet quality appears to be going in the wrong direction. But not for everyone.Shows like Microsoft Ignite are full of information on products and services. The event is attended by many IT professionals in different industries, with varying levels of AI deployment and very different paths to success.With the intense focus on all things AI, and Microsoft Copilot being one of the most widely spread AI tools, being able to talk to the people who have been successful with this tool, which vendors they worked with to deploy it successfully, and what practices helped their success become golden knowledge.Lets talk about why this years Ignite is important not only to attend but to attend in person. Well close with my Product of the Week: Bluesky, the social media platform I hear people are having the best success with as they move from Twitter/X.The Value of RelationshipsBuilding strong vendor and peer relationships is essential for AI success, especially when navigating the complexities of new technology like Microsoft Copilot, which appears to be the most successful AI offering in the market so far. It has enormous productivity-improving value to every product it enhances.Because Microsoft is a platform, tools, and cloud company, its tools tend to be relatively unfocused in terms of industry or geography. This broad applicability doesnt preclude tuning; it indicates the tools can be useful to almost every company, from enterprises to small businesses. While smaller companies will likely use AI as a service, enterprises are increasingly likely to use tools hosted on their own hardware or in a hybrid approach where sensitive information is retained, AI is accessed on-premises, and less secure information and implementation that dont require low latency can be cloud-deployed.The issue to address is that service providers, OEMs, and most companies trying to ramp up AI dont know enough about it to succeed. However, the people who understand AI and have had successful AI deployments (particularly the early adopters Microsoft assisted) will be at Ignite. Meeting these experts could make a difference in whether you overspend on these tools and help avoid common mistakes by learning from the mistakes of others and being able to delineate the hype from reality.Genuine Value vs. Exaggerated ClaimsI learned this lesson a few decades ago when Microsoft held an event arguing that its Windows NT servers could replace mainframes. When I had a chance to talk to two of Microsofts reference accounts, it became clear that Windows NT wasnt ready to replace mainframes for most organizations.The first indicated that it was working very well and had effectively replaced their mainframe, but also that had Microsoft not paid for the deployment, theyd never have been able to afford it.The second account didnt have a lot of time to talk to me because their NT servers had gone down, and the CEO was pissed. The poor guy likely thought his job wouldnt survive the result.Vendors tend to overpromise and underdeliver. Microsoft is better than many, but it has had this problem in the past. When it comes to AI, while Copilot is performant, it appears to have a significant adverse impact on quality, which is only a dealbreaker if you cant mitigate it.At Ignite, you can learn from the early adopters where the hype matches reality and where it doesnt and how to mitigate the damage from the latter. You dont want to be that poor guy who was an early adopter and likely lost his job as a result. These people can help ensure that your initial AI implementations with Copilot are something you can be proud of, not something youll be hiding from.Microsoft PartnersAt Ignite, there are always a lot of Microsoft partners, and every one of them will tell you that they are the partners for you. But along with these vendors are their customers who have used their services and deployment teams. Even if an OEM or service provider has a successful process, given how rapidly theyve had to ramp up, some teams know what they are doing, and some are learning on the job.Given that large language models (LLMs) cost around $100 million to develop, learning on the job can be incredibly expensive and embarrassing for the individuals or organizations that hire the teams tasked with training these models. Asking about not only the vendors IT professionals used successfully but also the specific teams they used can inform you which vendors are better than others and which vendor teams are better than others. I once met with an executive who correctly identified the best vendor for a specific task only to find that the team was unavailable. So, they passed and went with a different vendor who could provide their most successful team for the deployment. The efforts result was successful, but it might not have been if he had not looked under the covers to ensure the competency of the vendor and the team that provided the critical service.Wrapping UpAI is in the midst of a significant feeding frenzy. Most failed deployments appear to be primarily due to the immaturity of the tools, the inexperience of the vendors and customers, an excessive focus on productivity, and an inadequate focus on quality. This doesnt mean that AI is crap. It isnt, and it is working for an increasing number of companies.The problem is the inability to delineate between those products, tools, and vendors that are competent for your industry and company and those that are not. Because of Microsofts leadership in AI, Ignite is one of the few places to get the critical information you need to make better choices and ensure your expensive AI deployment is successful.BlueskySince Elon Musk took over Twitter and renamed it X, many users have been looking for an alternative service. Mastodon and Metas Threads initially looked like good alternatives, but both products had issues.While capable, Mastodon was somewhat difficult to use and hasnt lived up to being a Twitter replacement. Threads got a huge initial bump, but it fell off quickly because it lacked many of the features people relied on with Twitter. People still use both platforms, but they dont seem to be the go-to replacement for Twitter/X.(Image by Author / Gemini)Bluesky, at least for now, has gained traction as a viable replacement. It is relatively easy to use, and more feature-rich than Threads initially was. Im getting inquiries from all over the world on that platform this week as more and more people globally abandon or cut back on their use of Twitter to use Bluesky instead.Social media is a thing, and while it might be healthier not to spend as much time on it, Bluesky continues to be a much more balanced platform, one I and others feel safe using. It reminds me of the early days of Twitter when the tool was fun to use, and you didnt end up wasting time in online arguments with people who seemed outright crazy.For me, Bluesky is safer, more fun to use, and less full of misinformation than Twitter. It appears to be the best Twitter alternative for now, so its my Product of the Week.The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of ECT News Network.

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