Goldsmith Street - Riba Stirling Architecture Prize

In the second of Jim Stephenson’s films for The Architects’ Journal, we visit Goldsmith Street in Norwich, the first council housing project to be nominated for a Stirling Prize. UPDATE: I’m really pleased to say that Goldsmith Street won the Riba Stirling Prize, the first council housing project to do so. Proving that well designed, climate friendly social housing is possible. I hope this is the beginning of a shift towards more projects like this.

These environmentally friendly passivhaus-standard terraced houses were designed by Mikhail Riches and Cathy Hawley.

Photographs by Jim Stephenson

The Sky Ripped Apart 2

This time by natural forces, as a thunderstorm hit Brighton over the weekend. I tried recording from my loft (which you'll hear first) and then from the front of my house. You can hear the screams of the car alarms triggered by the powerful sound waves of the thunder claps too.

Technical note - recorded with the new Zoom H6 in XY mode. I got caught out on the levels and hadn't switched on the backup mode on the Zoom, which creates a safety recording 15db lower than the primary recording.

The sky ripped apart

Here is a recording I made of a Typhoon Jet over Shoreham in Sussex. Whilst I don't agree with everything these machines are used for, you can't deny the sky splitting barrage of sound isn't mind blowing.

Technical note - I used the new Zoom H6 handheld recorder and X/Y microphone for this recording. No compression or treatment in post.