Architectural employment opportunity
Blog, NewsPhilip Kassanis Architect & Urban Designer has a burgeoning number of projects including domestic and High Street schemes and government funded work on dwellings for the future; and is...
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Build It
Blog, ResidentialBuilt It is dedicated to self-build and it provides a treasure trove of inspirational and informative material.
Here is a case in point... a garden room. We are working on...
Piggy back loft extension
Blog, News, ResidentialPre-application advice has just been received from Kingston upon Thames planning authority for this proposal. The outcome was helpful to the client for deciding on a strategy for...
Topography and heritage 2
Blog, Heritage, News, Residential, Urban designThe last post featured Park Green's site in Stoke Gabriel with a focus on the topography. This was a challenge in the first instance for the design but then...
Topography and heritage 1
Blog, News, ResidentialLast week's visit to Devon - referred to in the previous post - included a visit to Park Green's Gabriel Court site in the village of Stoke Gabriel. This...
Challenging topography
Blog, News, ResidentialLast week Philip Kassanis was in Devon visiting both the sites that he has been helping Park Green with on a freelance basis. The photograph is from the site...
Design & Access Statements
BlogIn his essay "Let's be real about good design" Philip Kassanis welcomed the advent of the Design and Access Statement (DAS) - some years ago now - because it...
Manston Airport
Blog, MasterplanningEarlier this year the third book in the series A Detailed History of RAF Manston 1941-1945 was published: Invicta - The Undefeated. At this stage of its story recording...
Teaching Coventry University 2
BlogVirtual tour of Rome was Philip Kassanis's last lecture in a series entitiled "Understanding Buildings" given to 2nd year students on the Interior Design course at Coventry University. Most...
Teaching Coventry University
BlogOn Monday Philip Kassanis will carry out the last of 9 teaching sessions to 2nd year Interior Design students at the School of Art and Design at Coventry University....
Regeneration masterplan
BlogRedcar & Cleveland
After waiting for months after the deadline for making a decision on the tender process (7th May), Kassanis+Thomas today received the disappointing and frustrating news that the council has cancelled...
Co-creation of local plans
Blog, Business initiative, CommunityOurPlanning™
Philip Kassanis as director at Open Urbanism
OurPlanning™ is open source planning that facilitates communities to unite in common purpose to co-author a plan for their area. It is based on a cross-sectorial...
Update masterplanning good practice
Blog, Business initiativeM10 research programme
Philip Kassanis as director at Open Urbanism
M10 is an academic research programme that aims to enhance the practice of masterplanning by learning the lessons of the last 10...
Residential Merton
Blog, ResidentialMerton
Philip Kassanis as director at Kassanis+Thomas
2013
Kassanis+Thomas prepared the design and access statement to support a full planning application for this small scheme in the London Borough of...
Dialogue with Penza
BlogKassanis+Thomas has been invited to meet the administration - including the Governor - of the Penza Region in Russia with a view to setting up a relationship to help...
Moreton Town Centre
Blog, Community, Mixed use, Urban designMoreton in Marsh
Philip Kassanis as director at Kassanis+Thomas
2013
Town centre study for uk market town.
As part of his personal involvement with the stakeholder groups in Moreton in Marsh, Kassanis+Thomas Chairman Steve...
Open Urbanism work with The Glass-House
BlogOpen Urbanism, won an Innovation Voucher to develop its OurPlanning™ initiative. It used this to work over a period of 3 months with The Glass-House Community Led Design to re-work the concept. OurPlanning™...
Open Urbanism
BlogLast week Philip Kassanis founded Open Urbanism. It will sit alongside Kassanis+Thomas as a not for profit company carrying out research and development in the field of urbanism. It has...
Two years on
BlogIt only seems a short while ago that I posted about One year on. There is a lot to include in this update in 3 areas: the research programme,...
OurPlanning takes over from MasterplanningPlus
BlogRigorous bench testing of the initiative exposes aspects that require improvement. Masterplanning is an unhelpful term....
MasterplanningNow to MasterplanningPlus
BlogThe name has now evolved to MasterplanningPlus, which better reflects the nature of a service that doesn't just provide masterplanning but also the means of ownership and funding of it for stakeholder...
MasterplanningNow update
BlogI am working with the London Business Support Service Ltd to develop the business planning for the initiative and am indebted to Peter Landau for continually pushing me to refine...
Introduction to masterplanning
Blog, FeaturedAt Kassanis+Thomas we recently published an introduction to masterplanning. It forms a useful starting point to the way in which we would practice masterplanning and the base from which...
Climate Change Design
Blog, Featured, SustainabilityOver the last six months we have been pushing forward with interesting work at Kassanis+Thomas. We led a successful bid in a Technology Strategy Board competition for the maximum...
One year on
BlogIts now just over a year since I launched this website and things have really come on apace. After a few months as a sole trader I set up...
MasterplanningNow
Blog, MasterplanningWHAT IS MasterplanningNow
MasterplanningNow is a service that facilitates residents, businesses and institutions in an area to create a sustainable strategic plan for their place and becomes the instrument by...
Remaking Barnsley: a useful masterplan model?
Blog, Masterplanning, Papers, Urban designDissertation for the MA in Urban Design at the Joint Centre for Urban Design, Oxford Brookes University
2008
Philip Kassanis
ABSTRACT
The research aims to gain more understanding about the art and science...
Hounslow Town Centre
Blog, MasterplanningHounslow town centre is the largest commercial centre in the Borough and is identified as one of eleven metropolitan town centres across London. However, the recent 2009 London Town...
Manor Royal
Blog, Business Park, MasterplanningCrawley
Philip Kassanis in the name of Roger Griffiths Associates
2009
In Crawley's original new town masterplan of 1947, Manor Royal was designated as the industrial area of the town. Since its...
Princes Sqare, Ipswich: towards a design
Blog, PapersPREFACE
Princes Square does not yet exist but is a name, for the purposes of this essay, I am giving to a public space adjacent to Princes Street Bridge, Ipswich...
Up and running
BlogWelcome to my presence in cyberspace created in response to a growing interest in, and demand for information on, what I do, what I can do and what I...