All Sustainability articles – Page 38
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NewsExperts blast BRE's 'unproven gimmicks'
Research and innovation dropped in favour commercial growth, say critics
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TechnicalLessons in zero carbon
White Design’s scheme for the UK’s first zero-carbon school at Dartington in Devon
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NewsEco-town designs look ‘too commercial’
Designs for a number of the proposed new eco-towns have been criticised as being unambitious, overly commercial and lacking identity in a report by a government advisory panel.
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FeaturesArchitect Mark Hewitt and Icax develop interseasonal heat transfer, a sustainable heating and cooling system
Icax’s sustainable heating system is to be tested at Lancashire’s HM Prison Garth
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NewsBarnstorming farm plan
Forge Architects has beaten firms including Alan Camp Architects, Pitman Tozer and Anglo-German outfit 51.5° in a contest to create a building for an urban farm.
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TechnicalTackling the sustainability of our existing building stock is the next step
Reducing carbon emissions of the existing homes will make a real difference, and architects need to be in on the act
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Building StudyCurve your enthusiasm at Page & Park’s Loch Lomond National Park HQ
Dry stone walls and timber have been combined to stunning effect in a sustainable structure. Photos by Renzo Mazzolini
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NewsIslington academy goes green
Swanke Hayden Connell Architects is to design a new academy and a special needs school for the London Borough of Islington.
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NewsEnvironmental centre planned for former lime quarry
Halliday Clark Architects’ scheme to build an environmental centre in a disused quarry has been submitted to Yorkshire Dales National Park for detailed planning.
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AnalysisQuestioning the Oxford agenda
Heads of four architecture schools respond to to last week’s setting-out of the issues for next month’s Oxford Conference, and argue that sustainability is not the only game in town
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NewsSchools strike back at call to change curriculum
Sustainability shouldn’t be the only challenge for architecture schools, say educators
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AnalysisArchitectural education: the 1958 Oxford Conference revisited
Architecture schools must meet the challenge of sustainability if they are to survive, delegates at July’s Oxford Conference will hear. This week, four leading figures — Susan Roaf, Christopher Alexander, Rab Bennetts and Steven Parissien — say why change is needed. Next week, the schools respond
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OpinionAre developers ignoring the threat of climate change?
Of course they are, says Cabe campaigns director Matt Bell, but Andrew Teacher from the British Property Federation sees a rapidly growing commitment to sustainable design
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NewsArup-designed library for north Indian school takes centre stage
Arup Associates has unveiled designs for a new library at its award-winning Ladakhi Druk White Lotus School in northern India.
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AnalysisWhy Gordon Brown and green don’t mix
The prime minister had high hopes for eco-towns, but Richard Rogers and others say the towns aren’t sustainable at all
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NewsVery jolly green giants
A college building designed by RMJM for construction students learning about environmental best practice has won an award for sustainable design at this year’s Scottish Design Awards.
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NewsOlympic Stadium’s latest design unveiled
See the latest designs for the London 2012 Olympic stadium and join in the debate about its design qualities.
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NewsMCM is London’s greenest firm
MCM Architecture has topped a poll of the best green companies in London in the inaugural Sunday Times Green List.
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NewsRogers attacks eco-towns as a big mistake
Richard Rogers has launched an extraordinary criticism of the government’s eco-towns project calling it one of the government’s “biggest mistakes”.
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NewsBDP sustainability chief moves west
BDP’s head of sustainability Trevor Butler is relocating to Canada to start a new company which aims to bridge the gap between architects and engineers to realise sustainable buildings.