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NewsElm Park, Dublin
Bucholz McEvoy Architects’ Elm Park is a stunning £300m mixed-use, sustainable extension to Dublin, made all the more attractive by the charmless dross that surrounds it
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FeaturesDare to be different: Elm Park, Dublin
Bucholz McEvoy Architects’ Elm Park is a stunning £300m mixed-use, sustainable extension to Dublin, made all the more attractive by the charmless dross that surrounds it.
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FeaturesHowe Dell: Too cool for school?
Healthcare and education The Howe Dell school and children’s centre project was commissioned by Hertfordshire council in order to test the latest eco-friendly systems, and as Chloë Stothart discovers, its most intriguing feature is its temperature control
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NewsBankside 123
A giant £220m office development, delivered on time, to budget, with zero defects – and an admirable approach to sustainability
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NewsDuggan Morris wins £11m Liverpool Bay competition
Architect's design chosen for Merseyside observatory and visitor centre near landmark Gormley sculture
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Features
Oh dear, oh dear
So far, Cabe’s school design review panel hasn’t been too impressed by the Building Schools for the Future programme. Martin Spring looks at what it said about the first batch of schemes and asks Ken Shuttleworth, the chairman of the panel, for tips on getting full marks
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NewsThe Gus Report: Welly garden city
In the first of a series of reviews of important housing developments, Gus Alexander looks at English Partnerships’ remarkable scheme in Upton, Northamptonshire, which is built on a bit of a marsh …
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FeaturesSnug as a bug in rug
When the Natural History Museum decided it needed to house 20 million insect and plant specimens within one structure, building a giant shiny, ivory coloured cocoon seemed to make perfect sense. Thomas Lane buzzed over to find out more …
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NewsRenewable energy lessons from Austria
ESD and Crest Nicholson team up for Austrian energy to learn about renewable energy and passivhaus design
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NewsNatural materials on show at Ecobuild
Ecobuild brings a flavour of Morocco (via the West Country) with mud houses
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NewsThe SmartLIFE sustainable skills centre in Cambridgeshire
Instead of talking about the industry skills crisis the team behind a new innovative training centre have done something about it. And in nearly two years they have seen 2,500 trained workers in prefabrication and renewables installations enter the industry
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FeaturesThe inside job
It was like the Great Escape in reverse. How do you get inside a prison to double prisoner capacity without giving your captive audience any funny ideas about all that scaffolding? Using a panelised system was one solution – though not half as much fun as smashing a hole in ...
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FeaturesThe Middle East green building challenge
Special report: Now that the ruler of Dubai wants the city to be at the forefront of sustainable design, how will developers respond? Katie Puckett went to the United Arab Emirates to find out if the region really can have it all. With sustainable case studies.
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NewsGreening up a 19th century building
Cambridge architect sets benchmark and wins RIBA eco-award with showcase scheme
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NewsMake in Britain
Ken Shuttleworth practice's first big scheme is hotbed of people-oriented sustainability. It also employs an policy of sourcing much of the products used from within these shores
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FeaturesThe incredible hull
Ralph Erskine’s Ark is one of London’s most striking landmarks, but it has lain dormant for most of its short existence. Now developer Landid and an architect called DN-A have enacted an extraordinary genetic mutation. Martin Spring saw the result
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NewsHoare Lea helps bring green angle to Warwick research lab
Warwick Digital Laboratory aims for BREEAM excellence with exposed thermal mass, under floor heating and sedum roof
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FeaturesThe house with four gardens
Each window of David Mikhail’s latest house overlooks a landscape with its own unique character
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NewsGlastonbury House is saved with £10m revamp
Sixties eyesore tower block sets an example for others with EcoHomes “very good” rating
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NewsRiver Cottage HQ gets eco-makeover
Celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's brainchild undergoes a green revamp and expansion of his growing food empire. Full data on building performance included