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Jun 25, 2020
4 min

A Part I Architectural Assistant's experience of working in a practice.

I am a part I architectural assistant at WR-AP and I’m keen to share my part I experience of working in an Architects Practice.

Apr 28, 2020
3 min

Drawing and Education

In previous blogs we discussed the value of drawing as the act itself from which we represent reality, express our thoughts or communicat...

Feb 13, 2020
2 min

Social responsibility – our take.

Every business can be a force for good and as a practice we have an ambition to do well by doing good. But what does that really mean - I...

Nov 1, 2019
2 min

WR-AP study trip: Craft, Suburbia, Place, and… Electric bicycles.

For this year’s study trip, the WR-AP team embarked on a day trip to Cambridge. We set out to visit contemporary interventions in and aro...

Oct 23, 2019
1 min

WR-AP new studio opens

Following the completion and occupation of our new studio in South West London (a WR-AP designed conversion of an existing industrial uni...

Oct 1, 2019
1 min

WR-AP talking at Construction Week 2019

WR-AP will be attending Construction Week 2019 at the NEC in Birmingham on the 9th October to hear about the hot topics impacting our ind...

Sep 13, 2019
1 min

WR-AP 1st Birthday Party

We've been busy beavering away on our latest commissions that its taken us until now to post about our 1st birthday party (how time flies...

Nov 15, 2018
3 min

WR-AP response to consultation on increasing the delivery of new homes

Following on from our first ever WR-AP blog where we discussed the governments upcoming NPPF and proposed changes to the planning framewo...

Nov 1, 2018
3 min

Drawing - The Architect’s (not so) secret weapon

Much has been discussed and written about the importance of drawings in architecture. From a mere representation to a design tool, drawin...

Oct 19, 2018
4 min

An Architects understanding of development potential….

We are architects and architecture is at the core of what we do but we are also fully aware that great architecture cannot be achieved un...

Apr 25, 2018
3 min

WR-AP response to the NPPF consultation

Everyone in the construction industry is continuously talking about housing, whether it be, building on the greenbelt, delivering via mod...

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