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“All rise” — YOU BE THE JUDGE

how do architects come up with their ideas? In any design process, forcing yourself to write down what you’re actually trying to achieve helps keep your creative juices focused. In architecture this initial note is always based on the client’s brief, budget and site. It then becomes a crosschecking tool on the validity of solutions and a way to get back on track when you find yourself lost down the designer’s rabbit hole.

The National Architecture Awards once again presented another swinging array of responses across a range of locations. However, we have on record the key points from the architects themselves on how they arrived at their decisions. Here are the homes that took home the

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