More Architectural Reviews – Page 86
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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 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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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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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
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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