Buildings – Page 81
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Building StudyBlog: Mimes, tutus and oligarchs
Peter Murray enjoys the theatre at Foster and Partners' groundbreaking ceremony in St Petersburg
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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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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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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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TechnicalWisteria Lane, Bury St Edmunds
What’s green, hairy and incorporates its own air filtration system?
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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 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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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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Building StudyUniversity pioneers low-carbon homes
Nottingham’s built environment faculty to build six demonstration homes on campus
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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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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.
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Building StudySleeping beauty
Eventually FOA’s technology transfer centre in La Rioja will be engulfed by plants, but already this extraordinary building points to a new direction in the architect’s work.
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TechnicalThe shape of homes to come
BRE’s Offsite 2007 show reveals the strides carbon-efficient housing has made.Pictures by Peter White, BRE
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Building StudyFoster designs ecological tower for Siberia - images
Foster & Partners has designed this mixed-use tower for the town of Khanty Mansiysk in Siberia
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Building StudyVan Egeraat university extension reaches milestone
Erick van Egeraat’s extension to Inholland University Rotterdam reached a milestone this week, with completion of the 62m-tall structural core.The design of the 15-storey extension is based on van Egeraat’s original university building, realised in 2000. It is made up of three rectangular volumes, shifted and varying in size, which ...