Before Pillwood's conception, if one were to stand in its place, brush shoulders against dense forestry - walk beneath the canopy and paddle over a tidal creek they would discover a seminal architectural movement nesting in the brush. Within the brush five minds, shortly to be four, in 1963, Richard Rogers, Su Rogers, Norman and Wendy Foster and Georgie Wolton - the often elusive founding member of Team 4 who allowed the practice to exist at all, painted an architectural blen

In a quiet pocket of the Suffolk Vale, where the landscape appears much as John Constable left it in paint, a steel framed pavilion awaits to be discovered. No gate pillar, no formal drive, no façade performing for the road. A pedestrian bridge carries the visitor across to an entrance that opens quietly inward. What waits on the other side is not a house in any conventional sense. It is a decision made once, in 1974, about what it means for a building to become unassuming wi

In the wilderness of the Wiltshire landscape there is a home that contains a story of admirable honesty. A home of a singular parable. Amongst a rural ocean and a neighbourhood of ancient woodland is a saturated canvas for something that rests with modesty. A gravel path leads wanderers through shrubbery to Upper Lawn – a home affixed to the bordered walls of a country manor. What rose in the wake of a former gamekeeper’s thatched ruin in 1958 is a feeling of eternal honesty

A passing insight into why Mango Homes was formed and what it means to a company that has gently risen to steward homes of singularity.