All Building Design articles in BD Magazine - Housing - June 2007
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Building StudyOn the terraces
Urban Splash assembled a winning team to deliver its Chimney Pot Park in Salford, which turns traditional concepts of terraced housing upside-down
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Technical‘It’s the mass housing market that needs the most inspiration’
Kevin Brennan, national housing manager, Velux
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Building StudyUniversity pioneers low-carbon homes
Nottingham’s built environment faculty to build six demonstration homes on campus
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OpinionShould sustainable housing look to Haussmann rather than Thoreau?
The German tabloid Bild, known for its unstinting support of tough enforcement of law and order, and an obsessive opposition to the country’s former red-green government, has recently made a habit of opening with alarmist headlines about climate change, imminent floods and storms, and the extinction of animal species. ...
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Technical
The numbers game
£300,000 could be the difference in value of a pension pot built up by the owner of a PassivHaus and the buyer of a conventional new-build.
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Building StudyHomes for the future
There were nine short-listed designs, one winner and several surprises in the BD/Mail on Sunday design competition to find a zero-carbon mass-market design.
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Building StudyIf you go down to the woods today...
Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners has joined with housebuilder Wimpey to design ground-breaking eco-homes at Oxley Wood near Milton Keynes
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TechnicalSoftware opens up residents’ role in design
What could be more sustainable than a sustainable community co-designed by the owner-occupiers and tenants who will live there? That’s the premise behind a multi-disciplinary project launching next month that aims to bring self-procured housing to a wider section of the population.
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Building StudyConran completes sustainable habitat
Architect Conran & Partners has completed its Atalanta affordable housing development in Brighton, providing 31 one- and two-bedroom flats and a community centre for Brighton & Hove Council and the Downland Housing Association.
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Features‘Tell clients you know in which order to spend the money’
Low-energy, low-carbon homes are a challenge, but the real task facing architect Spacelab is delivering eco-housing at a profit. Services consultant Max Fordham offers some tipsPhotographs Ed Tyler
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Building StudyDream green suburbs but in our cities
I’d love a new-build eco-house. And I speak as someone who always pictured themselves as a Victorian sort of person, Edwardian at a push.
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FeaturesCounting down to zero carbon
PRP ZedFactor set the zero-energy heating standard at St Matthews keyworker estate in Brixton. Two years on, associate director Ziba Adrangi calculates cost and carbon
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TechnicalWisteria Lane, Bury St Edmunds
What’s green, hairy and incorporates its own air filtration system?
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TechnicalBlowing hot and cold
PRP Architects included DuPont Energain in the zero-carbon demonstration house built by timber-frame specialist Stewart Milne at the BRE’s headquarters near Watford.