A Famous Architectural Visitor

Well, not perhaps famous in the normal sense but a man who, in his field of architecture is one of the best.  His name is Tim Lucas and he is a partner in London firm of architects Price and Myers.

You may have seen him on Grand Designs when his amazing house in Kew, London appeared as the RIBA House of the Year 2015.   Modestly named Kew House, here it is:

https://www.piercyandco.com/projects/view/kew-house

Our architect Stuart Green had called upon Tim Lucas for advice when it came to the steelwork on which our extension sits.   Tim likes a challenge and he rose to this one!

Meet Tim:

He is exploring Settle and area with his wife and young daughters at Stuart's invitation and our extension was his very first port of call to see how things were working out.

See https://www.pricemyers.com/profile/partners/tim-lucas/ for Tim's write up on his firm's website.  Geometrics are his thing and he revels in "structurally and geometrically challenging projects".

Stuart and Tim both worked on the massive sculpture 'Slipstream' in Heathrow'sTerminal 2:

This huge sculpture as 78m long and weighs 77 tonnes.  It must indeed have been 'structurally and geometrically challenging' for  Tim and Stuart's firm Commercial Systems International in Hull who actually made it.

Good to know that we had such talent and experience working on the tricky bits of our comparatively humble extension.  Also good to have such an expert site visit at this stage when the bare bones of the structure could be seen and scrutinised.   We passed.