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Games Maker – London Olympics 2012

Games Maker!

Practice Director Kay Hyde returns to the studio having volunteered as a Games Maker at the Olympic Park.

Kay's role as Venue Entry 'Team Leader' involved working alongside the Ministry of Defence ensuring visitors to the Park were welcomed and prepared to go through security checks as quickly as possible.

Kay noted “ the atmosphere in and around the park was electric duri...

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Research Tour – Berlin 2008

As part of its annual research study tour Hyde + Hyde architects travelled to Berlin to visit series of seminal works by architects such as Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Peter Behrens, Bruno and Max Taut, Erich Mendelsson, Hans Scharoun and Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Various urban developments and sensitive sites such as the 'topography of terror' was also visited.

Our focus: The tectonic......

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The Parthenon - in the presence of perfection and the origin of Classicism

Research Tour – Athens 2008

As part of its annual research study tour Hyde + Hyde architects travelled to Athens in August 2008.

The practice visited a series of ancient monuments such as the Erectheion, Stoa of Attalus, Temple of Athena Nike, Temple of Hephaestus, The Parthenon and not to mention the beautiful Hellenic style architecture and Byzantine churches within the city.

 

 

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