While most architects have spent the last 10 weeks working from home, Robin Callister opened a studio in his local fire station.

Callister, an associate director at Saunders Architects in Hertfordshire, has been a volunteer firefighter in his village for seven years.

Normally Redbourn Fire Station is unmanned, with crew rushing there from their day jobs to respond to a shout. But during lockdown Callister and his wife, who is home-schooling their two children, decided it was the right place for him to set up his “home office”.

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