Pinterest is a fantastic way to organise and share images and videos in “boards” online. We find it a very useful way to collect images to inspire our projects, most importantly it's a brilliant way to discuss ideas with our clients.

We can discuss or create clients boards during our Home Design Consultation and refer back to them throughout the design of the project. If you're considering any home improvements creating your own Pinterest board of ideas is a great way to start.

You can see what inspires us by following our Pinterest account.

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This is what our principal architect, Jane Leach, looks like so you can be sure that you've found the right architect.

This Saturday we are opening our studio as part of the Grumpy Open Studio in Manchester City Centre.
Come along between 10am and 5pm to see behind the scenes of these artist studios.

Grumpy in the City, Brazennose Street, M2 5AS
iarchitect is on the 3rd Floor West

Bring along that bag of plastic shopping bags that you keep in a cupboard to learn how to transform them with a quick and easy creative craft.

Jane Leach, principal chartered architect at i-architect, gave a brief talk to architectural students and practitioners at this interesting event last week.

It was a great opportunity to hear heads of local practices talking about their work and research as well as hearing students at the school of architecture discussing their exciting and innovative ideas.

A brief clip of the talks can be viewed here:

This installation project will be launched on Thursday 12th December with a switching on of lights to bring the front of the church to life with light and colour. This is the culmination of a year of workshops and designwork to create plastic panels out of plastic shopping bags.

Working in collaboration with Urban Strawberry Lunch we have held workshops with homeless people, young people (NEETs) and members of the public. All the panels have been made in these workshops and represent a diverse group of local people and their stories.

This project has caught the imagination of many people and we would like to thank everyone who has been involved and helped to make this happen including though not limited to:

• The Arts Council England and 23 Foundation for funding

• Crisis and especially Annie MacLean for help with recruitment of perticipants and volunteers and running our initial workshops

• Becka Griffin for general support and advice on recruiting workshop participants

• Sam Kent, Lobster Productions Ltd, for creating the steel frame that supports the panels

• Spencer Lee Kelly for help with recruiting student volunteers from LJMU to facilitate workshops

• all the volunteers who have helped facilitate workshops, setting up equipment, helping prepare the church front to look good for the installation, especially Tesco

• News From Nowhere for providing us particularly good clear plastic