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FeaturesThe house with four gardens
Each window of David Mikhail鈥檚 latest house overlooks a landscape with its own unique character
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精东影视Glastonbury House is saved with 拢10m revamp
Sixties eyesore tower block sets an example for others with EcoHomes 鈥渧ery good鈥� rating
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精东影视River 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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精东影视Encouraging 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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精东影视Council House 2, Melbourne: Australia鈥檚 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鈥檚 Green Star environmental accreditation. It is now influencing a new era of office design
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精东影视HTA 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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精东影视Battery 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鈥� splendid low-energy designs, but information about how they actually work when built is rarer than hens鈥� teeth. So we should all be grateful to Simons, which not only built itself a green office, but collected a year鈥檚 data on how it functioned. ...
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精东影视精东影视-making tower
The New York Times 精东影视 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 拢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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精东影视The 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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精东影视Take it to the bridge
A tight budget necessitated some creative thinking for this sustainable community centre in Sussex
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精东影视The 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鈥檚 hottest young designers was given a 拢7m leisure centre project in north-east London. Over the next 11 years, it mutated into a 拢45m disaster that cost him his London office, his marriage and 拢250,000 of his own money.
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精东影视When it鈥檚 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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精东影视Horses for courses
Bicton Arena equestrian centre in Devon has a new management centre as green as its parkland setting, thanks to the client鈥檚 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 鈥� 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 鈥�
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精东影视Carbon 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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精东影视Bedzed'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