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		<title>Merry Christmas 2007</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our Christmas card to all our clients this year (like last year) is an investment in a charity project. This year we've chosen solar powered water supply, rainwater harvesting and emergency shelters from the Oxfam Unwrapped service.



Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from all at Axis Design. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.axisdesigncollective.com/2007/12/19/merry-christmas-2007/</link>
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		<title>Memorial - Tony Goodall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our thanks to Phil Price and his colleagues at Ibstock for their support in supplying a memorial stone for us to include in some of Tony's final projects.



(more here) ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.axisdesigncollective.com/2007/12/10/memorial-tony-goodall/</link>
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		<title>Eco-terrace - Stoke on Trent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Architecture Week 2007 is a good time to announce one of our latest commissions to develop an environmentally sound refurbishment proposal for terrace properties in Stoke-on-Trent. Continuing our explorations into solar passive architecture, the design delivers robust, replicable solutions to both the improvement of the fabric, the quality of the living space and the thermal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.axisdesigncollective.com/2007/06/14/eco-terrace-stoke-on-trent/</link>
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		<title>Architecture Week - Open Practice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Architecture Week 2007! Once again Axis Design will be taking part in Open Practice day in Birmingham and welcoming visitors to the office to talk to us about our work.

The topic this year is How Green Is Our Space? and we'll have plenty to talk about after another year of successful project developments [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.axisdesigncollective.com/2007/06/14/architecture-week-open-practice/</link>
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		<title>Eco-housing planning approval</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of our latest projects has just been granted planning approval by Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council. The design responds to tight site constraints and a brief calling for an exemplar, environmentally friendly scheme.

Carefully orientated to make the most of the south-east and south-west sun, the saw-tooth layout and innovative roof plan create an animated, interesting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.axisdesigncollective.com/2007/03/20/eco-housing-planning-approval/</link>
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		<title>Ecobuild 2007</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Notes from a recent trip to the Ecobuild conference:


It goes like this: DETR figures state that for a neighbourhood to be served by a viable transport network you need 5000 dwellings. To design a ‘walkable’ neighbourhood we should provide all key facilities within a 10 minute walk. This defines an area contained within a circle [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.axisdesigncollective.com/2007/03/14/ecobuild-2007/</link>
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		<title>Merry Christmas 2006</title>
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		<link>http://www.axisdesigncollective.com/2006/12/20/merry-christmas-2006/</link>
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		<title>Euroclad commendation!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ We're delighted to report that our entry for the Euroclad competition has been awarded a commendation. This was the last collaboration between Tony and Rob before Tony's untimely death, so it seems particularly fitting that it might achieve an award.

Rob will be in London attending the awards ceremony on October 19th. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.axisdesigncollective.com/2006/10/13/euroclad-commendation/</link>
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		<title>Tony Goodall 1939-2006</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's with great sadness that we must report the news that one of the founding partners died last month after several weeks of ill health. A memorial service was held at Highbury Hall in Birmingham where family and friends paid tribute to the lasting impression that he had with anyone he met.

We've set up a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.axisdesigncollective.com/2006/10/13/tony-goodall-1939-2006/</link>
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		<title>Euroclad competition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here's our entry to the Euroclad drawing competition, which asked entrants to 'sketch a fresh look for Brighton's West Pier'.



Chambers for a Brighton Memory Palace





Concept: "The first pier at Brighton was known as The Chain Pier, and there was a silhouettist working on it throughout most of it's history. The slhouettists moved to the West [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.axisdesigncollective.com/2006/08/03/euroclad-competition/</link>
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