All Housing articles – Page 176
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Building StudyChance Street houses by Stephen Taylor Architects
Cheap studio space made Bethnal Green a favourite with artists. But now others are moving into this part of east London. Ellis Woodman looks at how Stephen Taylor Architects’ new residential project copes with a tight street layout that is a legacy of the area’s less affluent past. Photos by ...
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OpinionWhy UK housing can’t just go Dutch
In creating South-east England’s growth areas to boost housing supply, the Department for Communities & Local Government, and previously the ODPM, encouraged the UK building industry to look to modern methods of construction and procurement. Within this, the Netherlands was cited as a precedent.
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Opinion
Housing renewal needs quality control
Anyone who has struggled in assembling a Billy bookcase from their local Ikea may wonder what challenges await those brave enough to buy one of their prefabricated homes.
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Building StudyWoodward Place housing, New Islington by Fat
Snigger all you want, but Fat's weird and wonderful Woodward Place in Manchester's New Islington has been delivered with exemplary care and manifest artistry.
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OpinionFat's wake up call to the housing debate
It's pure coincidence, of course, that the completion of Fat's housing in East Manchester has coincided with Alain de Botton's attempt to rehabilitate the word "beauty" in architecture.
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Building StudyDonnybrook housing by Peter Barber
Peter Barber Architects' low-rise, high-density dwellings for Donnybrook in London's East End have redrawn the template for urban terraced housing.