🏛️ Architecture & Design 1d ago · Jonathan Bell

A listed 16th-century Kent barn gets a striking steel-and-timber makeover

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A listed 16th-century Kent barn gets a striking steel-and-timber makeover
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The ability to update a historic structure – such as this barn in Kent – should be in every architect’s toolset, but the reality is different. In heritage-obsessed countries like the UK, with its rich seam of listed buildings and copious accompanying legislation, even the simplest of changes can be a daunting prospect. That’s often for the best, given the cavalier attitude some have to history, but when necessity, sensitivity and innovation finally come together, the process is no less protracte

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