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Cura Design are one of the first architectural practices in the UK to offer biophilic design services and have over 14 years of award winning architectural design and place making. With over 175 completed projects, we are experts at gaining planning approvals for residential and cultural projects in stunning landscapes, including Para 84e and Para139 residential applications.
The common thread that runs through all our projects are a love of nature, a love of architecture and a love of life.
Cura can be translated in Portugese as "the process of making or becoming sound or healthy again".
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Landscape - Close to
Glencoe Scotland
Competitions
Cura Design have participated in a range of invited and public competitions. Please click on the image for further information.
West End Ideas Competion 2015 - Winning Entry
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(Project team: Cura Design, Hand Drawn Homes, Peter Warm Consultants
Working in collaboration with the above project team Cura Design (formerly Research + Design) won a RIBA sponsored Master Planning Ideas Competition for redeveloping the west end of the city of Plymouth. The project included over 51 sheets of drawings and recommendations involving refurbishing and revitalizing an area of Plymouth which had become neglected. The recommendations included converting neglected urban spaces into public gardens and connecting these spaces via green corridors. Existing city centre car parks were converted to parks and gardens providing new life in the surrounding first floor spaces (currently in disuse) and the possibility of converting these spaces into garden flats. The flat roofs of 1950s era Plymouth buildings were provided with green roofs to increase energy efficientcy, provide a better living environment for city residents, clean the polluted city centre air and increase the bird and insect biodiversity in the area.