All Housing articles – Page 169
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Building StudyManor Farm Barns conversion by Jonathan Hendry Architects
Planning consent for a conversion of Lincolnshire farm buildings into a live/work development was given on condition that it was fully carbon neutral
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NewsSwiss win for Taylor
Stephen Taylor Architects, in association with Swiss practice Brockmann Stierlin, has won first prize in a competition for a €8 million 5,000sq m housing project near Zurich.
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NewsUse architects to drive up housing standards, Cabe argues
Every publicly funded housing project should involve a competition or interview to select an architect, Cabe’s chief executive has argued in a new report on how to drive up design quality.
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Building StudyCentral St Giles by Renzo Piano
In this archive Building Study from 2010, Ellis Woodman pulls no punches in his assessment of Google’s $1bn trophy
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NewsFactory Quarter all wrapped up
A £71 million housing development in west London designed by BPTW, Living Architects and GHM has been completed
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TechnicalA round-up of the latest housing products
Products used in housing projects including CHP boilers and underfloor heating systems
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Building StudyPeter Barber’s Baden Powell Close terrace in Dagenham
Peter Barber Architects’ terrace of 14 courtyard houses in Dagenham provides attractive living space whzich also encourages community interaction. Tim Abrahams reports
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Building StudyBateman’s Row House by Theis Khan Architects
Combining homes, an office and a gallery, this east London building near Shoreditch High Street revels in setting up rules and then breaking them
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NewsBroadway Malyan £100m Edinburgh flats scheme rejected
Edinburgh Council has refused Broadway Malyan’s £100 million scheme to build over 700 flats on a brownfield site in the city.
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Building StudyNorwegian architect Beate Hølmebakk of Oslo-based Manthey Kula
After creating a series of self-initiated ‘paper’ projects, Norwegian architect Beate Hølmebakk’s first built works are emerging
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TechnicalScotland’s Housing Expo homes previewed
We examine four of the innovative projects under construction for this summer’s long-awaited Housing Expo in Inverness
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TechnicalJohn Christophers’ Zero Carbon House
A home in Birmingham’s Balsall Heath is the first retrofit project to achieve level 6 of the Code for Sustainable Homes
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Building StudyHighwood Court housing in Harlesden by SUSD
SUSD’s nine-house development on an enclosed site in north-east London disregards conventional spatial arrangements to create housing of joyful intricacy
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Building StudyJonathan Woolf Architects and Bharat Patel: Painted House, London
Two semi-detached houses have been comprehensively restructured to create an engaging single dwelling for an extended family
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NewsPorphyrios London scheme on site
Work on a new Porphyrios Associates’ residential scheme in Highbury, north London began on site this week.
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First Public Land Initiative sites released
The first sites to be developed under the government’s Public Land Initiative for new homes have been named.
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NewsAlison Brooks and HTA to revamp Ealing estate
HTA and Alison Brooks Architects are part of a team picked to regenerate a rundown housing estate in west London.
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Minister announces 600 eco-town show homes
Housing Minister John Healey has announced plans to build more than 600 “eco show homes” to demonstrate the attractions of living in one of the planned eco-towns.
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Three new partners on board Housing Design Awards
The Housing Design Awards are celebrating their eighth decade with a series of new partners, including the London Development Agency, Design for London and the RICS.
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Kickstart puts millions into failing housing
Cabe calls 54% of Homes & Communities Agency’s bailed-out schemes ‘very high risk’