By Bull O'Sullivan Architecture
Patience is a virtue they say, and billiards is a game that requires it, or immense skill and coordination.
Coordination between a Bowling club and an RSA also requires skill and coordination.
A skin of recycled Rimu over a set of rolled forms was intended to assist with the focused nature of the game and enable the hours to simply ‘pass you by’.
Acknowledging the bowling green and the northern sun when the days are short and mean were also part of this slow game.
The ocular to catch the setting sun is as important as are the lights over the tables. Both made by the Architect.
A community club that is dedicated a part of society which is enjoying the setting sun, this small project has its influences entrenched in service men and womans history.
Come make the time to pot the black.
The BOS Practice is driven by the pursuit of quality - a belief that our surroundings directly influence the quality of our lives, whether in the workplace, at home or the public spaces and structures in between. It is not just buildings but urban design that affects our wellbeing. We are concerned with the physical context of a project, sensitive to the culture and climate of their place. We have applied the same priorities from housing to education to furniture.
The BOS philosophy and values that inspire every project are the same regardless of scale or size. This explains why no detail is too small in its importance for the BOS Practice and why the same amount of care and attention will be lavished on the design of a door handle, a tap, or a piece of furniture.
These, after all, are the elements of the environment that we physically touch every day of our lies. The BOS Practice believes the quality of a project is not necessarily related to how much it costs, but rather how wisely the resources of time and money are spent. The setting of standards is more about an attitude of mind in defining goals and honouring commitments. In that sense the most important things have not changed - in particular the philosophy of quality and optimism at the most personal of levels.