The August issue of ‘Blueprint’ magazine features 50 of the Best UK Design Graduates, two of them, Sophie Corkhill and Matthew Duggan, being from the ‘Continuity in Architecture: The City, the Building, the Room’ group. The projects were intended to complement the Basilica Palladiana in Vicenza in celebration of the quincentenary of Palladio’s birth. Sophie’s and Matthew’s work was selected by Nick Johnson who praised it in the following terms.
SOPHIE CORKHILL
A bold, brave plan wrapping inventively around the Palladio building. A ‘stealth’ building – as much ‘this year’ as the barcode facade was last, and the sloping roofscape before it – seems to work and be an appropriate and articulate response. A believable and convincing plan with a bold yet sensitive rendering.
MATTHEW DUGGAN
In a world of architecture obsessed by itself and the veneer of stylistic appeal, this student started from a fundamentally different point of view, concentrating on the ‘feel’ of the space rather than the look. The light into, and the view out of, the space is fundamental. An antidote to so many students intent on stylistic rather than human responses to creating space.