All Buildings articles – Page 87
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NewsEncouraging cannabis use
Sustainability Our Housing Expert section kicks off with a look at how a Suffolk housing association has built a super-efficient development out of hemp and lime.
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NewsCouncil House 2, Melbourne: Australia’s greenest office building
Council House 2, an administrative building for the City of Melbourne, is the first in the country to achieve the highest possible rating of six stars in Australia’s Green Star environmental accreditation. It is now influencing a new era of office design
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NewsHTA reveals details of Bristol eco-village
Hanham Hall project led by housebuilder Barratt includes CHP plant, prefabrication and living spaces that face south.The site will also include a sustainable living centre
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NewsBattery Park City, New York: A green and sunny vision
Strict environmental planning rules at Battery Park City have produced a cluster of ever-greener residential towers
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FeaturesThe secret life of buildings
We hear an awful lot about architects’ splendid low-energy designs, but information about how they actually work when built is rarer than hens’ teeth. So we should all be grateful to Simons, which not only built itself a green office, but collected a year’s data on how it functioned. ...
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NewsNews-making tower
The New York Times Building in Manhattan, New York, is the best in clever and yet subtle architecture but its designers have bucked the trend and not tried for LEED accreditation, opting instead to build for user comfort. Does this bode well for skyscraper design in the 21st Century?
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FeaturesLiverpool One on-site: Welcome to paradise
How do you co-ordinate a £1bn budget, 40 buildings, 22 architects and 90 consultants to deliver the most ambitious regeneration scheme Liverpool has ever seen? Thomas Lane went to ask the man who has to do it
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NewsThe existing stock blueprint
The team behind an energy performance upgrade of six houses in Hampshire hope this can be the start of a much more ambitious and extensive effot to tackle inefficient existing housing stock
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NewsTake it to the bridge
A tight budget necessitated some creative thinking for this sustainable community centre in Sussex
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NewsThe DIY sustainable home
What happens when an engineer decides to build his new family home? Will Jones reports on Gifford director Richard Quincey's house, built two years ago, including an assessment of the performence of the solar systems he installed
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FeaturesThe pool that (nearly) sank its architect
In 1996, one of Britain’s hottest young designers was given a £7m leisure centre project in north-east London. Over the next 11 years, it mutated into a £45m disaster that cost him his London office, his marriage and £250,000 of his own money.
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NewsWhen it’s hip to be square
The new Home Office HQ in Sheffield may look an unremarkable block but it is setting the style for green workspace.
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NewsHorses for courses
Bicton Arena equestrian centre in Devon has a new management centre as green as its parkland setting, thanks to the client’s commitment to sustainability
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FeaturesTwo up, two down, plus one
PCKO has come up with a novel solution to the cramped, dingy terraced house – add an atrium
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FeaturesWith knobs on: Barratt's energy-saving technologies measured
These houses have had all manner of wonderful energy-saving technologies fitted to them by housebuilder Barratt. But are they any good and are they worth spending money on? Barratt asked researchers at Manchester university to find out …
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NewsCarbon cutting church
A Church in Kent has embraced creative solutions for cutting its emissions. The scheme shows how changes can be made to a listed building while retaining its original features
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NewsTake in the view
Landscaping is set to be the next big thing in sustainable design so Thomas Lane went to BRE’s Innovation Park to see how it should be done
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FeaturesRepeat prescription: St Helens & Knowsley hospitals PFI
For the £338m St Helens & Knowsley hospitals PFI, Taylor Woodrow upped the dose of replicated factory-made elements to new levels.
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NewsBedzed's baby: Zedfactory housing in Andover
Green architect Zedfactory has designed a housing development in Andover that takes the Bedzed principles and shows how they can be paid for
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NewsLooking ahead...
Curious to know how the Thames Gateway will look when it’s all finished? Well if you feel like going to Ashford in Kent, there’s a model already built. And if you don’t, don’t worry, Chloë McCulloch’s already been and she took her camera