All Features articles – Page 203
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FeaturesMore than skin deep
Two years on, the Great Bow Yard housing in Langport, Somerset, is continuing to live up to its energy-saving blueprint. Stride Treglown’s Robert Delius makes a return visit
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DClG’s Eco-code guide
Full technical guidance to the Code for Sustainable Homes was published by the DCLG on October 1.
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FeaturesStepping up to the challenge
In his 1980s incarnation, Royal Gold Medal recipient Ted Cullinan embraced informal attire and educational experiment
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FeaturesWhy put a price on the priceless importance of carbon-free homes?
No less an authority than the RIBA’s president Sunand Prasad recently ticked off the Liberal Democrats after their party conference for their ambitious plans to create a carbon-neutral Britain by 2050.
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FeaturesDirt buster
Ingrained dirt on work surfaces would be a thing of the past in a kitchen fitted with a new range of quartz worktops incorporating Microban anti-bacterial protection.
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FeaturesBoard stuff
Houses designed with a “room in the roof” can now utilise a new ceiling lining board specially developed to combine high thermal insulation with 30-minute fire resistance.
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FeaturesLife’s a beach...almost
Extreme coastal sites often feature in Simon Conder’s imaginative portfolio. Now the BD award-winner is back at Dungeness, but his aspirations are leading him elsewhere.
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FeaturesBath device beats the dragons
The Dragons’ Den was sceptical, but a new product designed to prevent bath overflows was launched this week at the M&E Show in Olympia.
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FeaturesHow straw bale stacks up
Modcell modular panels are making this eco-friendly natural product easier to use in housebuilding
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FeaturesGlass House, Nicky Adams, THames & Hudson £19.95
Space, light and order are the Corbusian ideals that modern technology can now achieve.
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FeaturesWin tickets to Richard Meier
We have five pairs of tickets to give away to Richard Meier: Art and Architecture at the Louise T Blouin Insititute.
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FeaturesPlaylist: After the flood
During the July deluge, McCormick + Smith Architects' office on the edge of the Evenlode was flooded by 5 ft of water. As a thank you to the friends who helped clear up afterwards the practice held a party featuring a flood-themed playlist
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FeaturesGeorgian update
Apartments in Cheltenham by Glenn Howells Architects take lessons from history