All Features articles – Page 186
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FeaturesConcrete floors from Milbank
The company designs, manufactures and installs prestressed hollowcore and beam and block floors.
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FeaturesTom Dixon’s circular habitat
Habitat design guru Tom Dixon will soon have an unusual new des res to fill with furniture — but he’ll have to come up with some curvy designs to fit it, writes Katie Puckett.
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Developers to provide sustainability certificates
Developers selling new homes that reach completion after May 1 will have to provide prospective buyers with sustainability information.
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FeaturesCelotex insulation
Celotex manufactures high-performance PIR insulation boards in a range of thicknesses from 12mm to 200mm.
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Features‘You save more than double your expense on maintenance’ — Jonathan Fennell, UK business unit manager, Lindab
Lindab is a 50-year-old Swedish company started by a man called Lage Lind — so our name comes from his surname plus Ab, which is Swedish for “limited”.
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Scott Brownrigg plans Romford conversion
At Harold Wood near Romford, Scott Brownrigg and Countryside Properties are planning to convert a grade II listed building into 15 flats surrounded by 859 new dwellings.
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FeaturesBricks from Ibstock
Hardwicke Minster is a range of five different bricks providing different tones in the buff, yellow and cream spectrum.
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FeaturesThe big housing question
With housing delivery a key challenge for the future, should the government be more active in regulating the market? Three architects give their views - and we want to hear yours too.
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FeaturesFeilden Clegg Bradley Studios on how to think big on housing
Duggan Morris Architects is keen to get into large-scale residential commissions
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FeaturesBentley’s tome marks the shape of things to come
This massive book is a valuable aid to understanding architectural geometry, says Marc Thomas of Architects Design Partnership
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FeaturesPublic spirit can beat the slump
We need strong public foundations to withstand economic fluctuations, says Jonathan Glancey
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FeaturesRoof by Erisco Bauder
Evelyn Road’s flat roof used a tapered insulation scheme, waterproofed with the company’s bituminous membrane.
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FeaturesGreen House success leads to Barratt deal
As Gaunt Francis’s competition-winning, zero-carbon Green House nears completion at BRE in Watford, contractor Barratt has commissioned the firm to design a suite of zero-carbon homes, from starter pad to three-bedroom home.
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Features‘House-builders have to go back to first principles’
Interview: Jayne Lomas, project manager at English Partnership’s Carbon Challenge programme
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Features‘Pay it back’ kitchen
The challenge of low-energy design fired the imaginations of design graduates in this year’s Concept Products competition at the Ideal Home Show.
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FeaturesCreator of the lost Ark
Ralph Erskine stands in front of his Ark office building in Hammersmith
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FeaturesMichael Trentham Architects builds piano house
A keen amateur pianist has commissioned Michael Trentham Architects to design a slim, one-bedroom house just large enough to accommodate his grand piano.
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FeaturesWalker & Martin Architects design Kent Downs house
Walker & Martin Architects have designed this house near Canterbury.
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FeaturesPeter Barber Architects’ room at the top
From a cramped attic studio in a Dickensian building in north London, award-winning Peter Barber Architects is not only living Victorian values but building them. By Jessica Cargill Thompson