All Housing articles – Page 172
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OpinionIs it all over for Robin Hood Gardens housing estate?
Yes, residents are in touching distance of having the new homes they want, says council leader Lutfur Rahman; while Alan Powers argues that refurbishment would be a win-win outcome
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NewsSimpson aims to lift benchmark for student housing
Ian Simpson Architects has released completed images of its first-ever student housing project, one of the largest redevelopment projects in Manchester
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NewsObama appoints architect to head US housing department
US president-elect Barack Obama has appointed an architect, Shaun Donovan, to the post of secretary of housing and urban development in his incoming administration.
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NewsHousing scheme places Hackney church at centre of community
Matthew Lloyd Architects has submitted a planning application for a project in London’s Hackney Wick which would provide community facilities and 30 new homes around a grade II* listed church
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HCA launches without any housing targets
The Homes & Communities Agency has not yet drawn up targets to improve the supply of housing and kick-start regeneration schemes across the country, its chief executive has admitted.
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FeaturesHedgehog Development’s housing gameplan
Lindsey and Peter Wislocki are adding architectural skills to speculative housing development
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Building StudyStudio KAP Architects’ detailed domesticity
Two domestic projects by Studio KAP, one at Dumgoyne near Glasgow, the other near Oban, share highly specific handling, and both captivate and intrigue, finds Charles Rattray
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OpinionHousing agency’s big moment
The Home & Communities Agency has some good ideas to help the market, but it needs to inject some fresh thinking into housing delivery
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FeaturesCan the Home & Communities Agency revive the housing sector?
BD asks three housing sector experts
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Building StudyHow AHMM delivered housing with real value at Adelaide Wharf
AHMM’s mixed-tenure housing development on the Grand Union Canal’s Adelaide Wharf in Hackney, east London, really catches the eye
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FeaturesS333 applies Dutch design pzazz to the Tarling housing estate in Tower Hamlets
S333’s Jonathan Woodroffe and Dominic Papa talk to Ruth Slavid about applying Dutch design lessons in east London
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NewsEra of Parker Boris dawns as mayor sets minimum space standards for London housing
Mayor Boris Johnson will introduce minimum space standards for new homes in his upcoming London Plan.
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Building StudyRiches Hawley Mikhail’s Clay Fields sustainable housing
Riches Hawley Mikhail’s Clay Fields affordable housing scheme at Elmswell, near Bury St Edmunds, successfully integrates sustainable village living and locally appropriate design
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TechnicalCartwright Pickard’s modular housing for east Africa
Cartwright Pickard is creating modular homes for east Africa that can be rapidly assembled offsite
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NewsKyo Sung Woo’s graduate housing opens at Harvard
US-based architect Kyu Sung Woo’s graduate housing complex, 10 Akron Street, for Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has opened.
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OpinionCan Accordia really be a blueprint for housing?
Yes, says Keith Bradley one of the Stirling-Prize-winning development’s architects; but Alan Cherry, of the scheme’s developer Countryside Properties, disagrees
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NewsAccordia wins the Stirling Prize
Accordia in Cambridge by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Alison Brooks Architects and Maccreanor Lavington has won the 2008 Stirling Prize.
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Beckett moved to housing in cabinet reshuffle
Margaret Beckett has replaced Caroline Flint as housing minister in today’s government reshuffle.
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NewsPublic sector must wake up to crisis, says housing chief
The government’s new housing and regeneration agency leader has warned public sector clients to wake up to the credit crunch, saying it could be “significantly worse than the early 1990s”.