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Upgrade strategy Isleworth

Homes, News
30 March 2022/
We have just completed a feasibility study for this property. We called it a Needs & Options review. It enabled our client to formulate a plan of action for upgrade work, which aligned budget with aspirations. It included both...
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Unplanned and experimental space

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Resilient High Streets

Blog
8 August 2021/
Sarah Featherstone makes some excellent points in this article about creating space for the unplanned and experimental. I would love to know more about Tŷ Pawb’s business model. I think alternative business models are part of the way forward...
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Interior design

Interior design boost

Interiors, News
3 August 2021/
We are delighted to be working with Lei Wang of Madecube. Her design talents enable us to offer a  comprehensive interior design package. The image is from one of our current projects at concept...
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accessible bathroom

Accessible bathroom

Interiors, News
23 July 2021/
Local builder has just completed an accessible bathroom in Hertfordshire for 90+ year old client with mobility issues. Our interior design service included purchasing all the fittings from mobility specialist supplier, AKW. Karnedean flooring still to be...
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Architectural employment opportunity

Blog, News
12 December 2020/
Philip 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 looking for someone to share the workload. It would be...
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Build It

Blog, Residential
4 November 2020/
Built 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 a commission at the moment for one of these and...
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Piggy back loft extension

News, Residential
23 June 2020/
Pre-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 upgrading the property. The pre-application route was chosen because the client was...
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Design & Access Statements

Blog
14 October 2017/
In 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 provides a statutory vehicle to explain the design of a...
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Manston Airport

Blog, Masterplanning
12 July 2017/
Earlier 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 Manston Airport's history is moving much faster than the mission...
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Teaching Coventry University 2

Blog
10 July 2016/
Virtual 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 of the year were on a study trip to Rome....
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Teaching Coventry University

Blog
13 March 2015/
On 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. He was asked to step in to support a teaching...
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Regeneration masterplan

Blog
1 October 2014/
Redcar & 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 the tender process. K+T in association with Ian McDonald of Strategic...
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Co-creation of local plans

Blog, Business initiative, Community
25 April 2014/
OurPlanning™ 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 approach achieved by working with partners from the built environment, “third”,...
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Residential Merton

Blog, Residential
3 January 2014/
Merton 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...
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Dialogue with Penza

Blog
10 December 2013/
Kassanis+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 with the region's investment and regeneration needs. Steve Thomas (K+T...
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Moreton Town Centre

Blog, Community, Mixed use, Urban design
24 September 2013/
Moreton 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 Thomas has recently circulated a provisional draft Town Centre strategy...
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Open Urbanism work with The Glass-House

Blog
2 September 2013/
Open 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™ 's mission is to partner with groups who have a...
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Open Urbanism

Blog
25 October 2012/
Last 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 a particular focus on enhancing the practice of masterplanning through...
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Two years on

Blog
8 August 2012/
It 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, and Kassanis+Thomas......
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MasterplanningNow update

Blog
27 February 2012/
I 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 the essence of the concept in a tangible form. Here...
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Climate Change Design

Blog, Featured, Sustainability
18 January 2012/
Over 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 award (£100,000) to develop climate change design strategies. We are...
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One year on

Blog
26 July 2011/
Its 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 a company - Philip Kassanis Limited - but use the...
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MasterplanningNow

Blog, Masterplanning
20 May 2011/
WHAT 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 which change over a long term can be managed; and...
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Sustainability Now

Papers, Sustainability
16 August 2010/
Market forces demand an answer to the question: by how much can I reduce my energy costs and what will be my capital outlay Douglas Steidl AIA President : “…. At a sustainability roundtable led by the AIA Center for...
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Hounslow Town Centre

Blog, Masterplanning
15 August 2010/
Hounslow 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 Centre Health Check Report indicates that in terms of turnover...
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Manor Royal

Blog, Business Park, Masterplanning
14 August 2010/
Crawley 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 official opening in 1950, Manor Royal has flourished and today...
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Up and running

Blog
15 July 2010/
Welcome 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 have done. I have started in a small way with...
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The Architect as Project Manager

Papers
13 August 2009/
10-Jun-92 The architect is the lead consultant because the involvement of each other discipline is to hang its contribution on a framework designed by the architect and therefore it is natural that the architect should control, coordinate and integrate these...
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