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Press
10 October 2023
Design Curial
Radical Thinking (website)
James Soane urges us to look to a future that has a healthy and circular relationship with the world we live in
5 September 2023
BD Online
Project Orange wins planning for 45 new homes in Suffolk (website)
Our design approach for two development sites takes inspiration from the local vernacular
26 July 2023
University of Essex
Business Innovation Grant (website)
Babergh & Mid Suffolk programme funds first business innovation projects with Essex researchers
6 February 2023
FX Magazine
Practice Profile (website)
Project Orange turn their gaze to improving rural communities
7 January 2023
Le Moniteur Editions
La Surelevation des Bâtiments (website)
Our Shoreham Street project is featured in this excellent book and even made the front cover.
6 October 2022
Architecture Today
My Kind of Town, Lavenham (website)
James reflects on the history off medieval Lavenham and how its timber framed architecture is a blueprint for the future.
13 July 2022
Architects Journal
Barbican Studio (website)
The AJ profiles the story behind the refurbishment of this 42sqm Studio Apartment in the iconic Barbican.
5 April 2022
Hospitality Design, New York
In Tandem: Interview with Christopher and James (website)
Interview on working together as a couple
4 April 2022
Architectural Digest India
Someplace Else, Mumbai (website)
This iconic pub is now in Mumbai but boasts a distinct identity
10 March 2022
Modern Houses Spring Back 3: Crystal Palace, Suffolk Lecture
James gives a talk to the C20th Society on Crystal Palace (website)
The architect James Soane talks about a refurbishment project in 2014 for the sensational Crystal Palace House originally by Hopkins.
1 February 2022
Todays Traveller, India
Project Orange designs new ITC LEED platinum Hotel (website)
In line with ITC’s Hotel’s credo of ‘Responsible Luxury’, Welcomhotel Guntur is also committed to the highest levels of environmental stewardship. The hotel is powered by renewable energy sourced from ITC’s own wind energy farm near Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh.
8 January 2022
Orange but with green credentials
Practice Profile 2022 (PDF)
Project Orange speak about the climate crisis and their future direction
1 January 2022
Heaven and Hell Interview with Gina Long
Interview with James and Christopher (website)
James and Christopher talk about their love of Suffolk and why they relocated to Lavenham
23 December 2021
Room2 opens "world's first whole-life net-zero hotel" in Chiswick
Room 2 Chiswick profiled in Dezeen (website)
Hospitality brand Room2 has opened what it claims is the first hotel to reach net-zero emissions across its entire lifespan from construction to demolition.
20 December 2021
RIBA Suffolk Awards
Grove Cottage wins RIBA Award (website)
the refurbishment of Grove Cottage, Lavenham, Garners an RIBA Design Award
20 December 2021
RIBAJ
From Brunel to Bono, planning permissions give culture a lead (website)
Historic tram sheds, service buildings, and cottage in Dalkey – a suburb to the South of Dublin where the Bay meets the Irish Sea – is soon to be reborn as a mixed-use scheme of food, drink, offices, retail, and culture set around a new cobbled public square.
3 September 2021
Architecture LGBT+ presents ‘Designing Out’
Exhibition at ROCA Gallery (website)
James Soane presents: ‘Out of Practice: Manifestos for an LSA Education’ – London School of Architecture
4 April 2021
This contemporary home in a historic town is a modern masterpiece inside
Orange Cottage - 15 years on (website)
Sensitive design allows a contemporary house to sit happily amid its medieval neighbours in the historic Suffolk town of Lavenham
1 November 2020
Cultivate the Contrast
The Black Barn in Suffolk is published in Modern Rustic (PDF)
Black sinusoidal steel cladding stays faithful to the building’s unfussy, agricultural roots as a humble pre-war barn to house livestock, with sliding doors opening onto a courtyard.
20 October 2020
Me and My House. The Crystal Palace
C20th Society Magazine Feature (PDF)
Project Orange talk about the challenges and rewards of renovating the 1978 Hopkins designed glass house.
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