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The difference between an expensive house and significant architecture. Place, life, space, light, material, detail and time: Ludwig & Mayer’s Architecture Test helps recognise when residential property becomes architecture.
Read the essay →Historic estate conservation extends beyond restoring a building: landscape, collections, viable use and long-term upkeep must be considered together.
Read the essay →A building can be old, imposing and expensive without being architecturally significant. In a genuinely exceptional historic villa or château, the building, the garden, the landscape, the original design intent, the surviving details and the layers added over time reinforce one another. Together they create a character that cannot simply be reproduced somewhere else.
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