Commercial / Urban renewal

A worn street, a worn square. Glass of different sizes.

Not one window repeated up a block. A small light, a tall door, a wide sheet. Shops open. People come back.

Quote The openings
Worn street with new glass of different sizes, and a cafe open onto the pavement
Lookbook Worn streets and squares, in use again. Glass of many sizes, along a street and around a square. Open the book, then send the openings you have. Open the lookbook

How this work is named

The four names already used on drawings, in research, and on tenders.

Streetscape. Public realm. Heritage windows. Window retrofit. The openings stay different sizes.

  • The object. A street front, the edge of a square, a historic wall, or a building already standing.
  • The method. Survey the opening. Keep that size. One window is not repeated up the street.
  • The name. These four are how the work is searched, specified and tendered.

Streetscape

Streetscape and shopfronts. Active frontage, each bay the width already in the wall.

Streetscape: a bakery door, then a much wider bookshop, on a worn shopping street
The glass follows the shop that is already there.
Covered arcade at dusk, a narrow door beside one wide sheet of glass
Different shop widths. One street.

Public realm

Public realm. The frontage around a square, each bay drawn to the opening that is there.

Public realm: an open square edged by an arcade, a stone warehouse and a narrow townhouse
Tables out. Every bay its own glass.

Heritage windows

Historic district. Conservation glazing: the opening stays, and the sizes stay mixed.

Heritage windows: a small pane, a tall door and a wide sheet on one old wall
A small pane, a tall door, one wide sheet.

Window retrofit

Existing-building window replacement. The survey is the opening already cut in the wall.

A worn street finished with new aluminium windows and solid aluminium-panel doors
Replace the glass. Leave the hole.
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