All Building Design articles in BD Plus June 2006

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  • Sheppard Robson’s £60,000 house, on show in front of the Building Centre in London, drew media and public attention.
    Building Study

    The cost of living

    2006-07-07T00:00:00Z

    John Prescott’s Design for Manufacture competition sparked a serious debate about the economics of housing provision

  • Sybarite's Treehouse
    News

    News

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

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  • The two listed mills face each other across a courtyard, joined by the new linking building.
    Building Study

    Something old something new

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Cartwright Pickard’s Fearn Island Mills scheme in Leeds shows there’s still life in industrial conversions

  • The Abode development by Proctor & Matthews drew as far as possible on local vernacular styles and materials.
    Building Study

    Mix and match

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Proctor & Matthews’ Abode housing in Essex was noted for its density and vernacular references. Three years on, director Andrew Matthews returns

  • Building Study

    Luna landscape

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    While its design is very much of the moment, Glenn Howells’ Luna Building fits in perfectly with its older riverside neighbours.

  • News

    Housing

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

  • The walls and roof slates are the same colour, so the building reads as a single unit, while flush windows make the volume abstract.
    Building Study

    Pump house gang

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Maccreanor Lavington’s four new terraced houses on an awkward site in north London prove surprisingly peaceful

  • “It’s about making money by building buildings that we’re proud of,” says Elliot Lipton.
    Features

    Like father, like son

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    With First Base, Elliot Lipton is making a name as a developer with an eye for architecture, much as his father did 20 years ago

  • Technical

    I wish I'd done that...House

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    James Soane on the ‘architecture of modesty’ in Jim Ede’s conversion of Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge