All Housing articles – Page 174
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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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Building StudyRichard Murphy’s New Hall is big in Essex
The architect’s challenge was to offer a generous level of space indoors and out without being OTT for the suburbs
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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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NewsIan Ritchie dropped from Southwark's Potters Field housing scheme
Architect Ian Ritchie has been dropped from Berkley Homes' prominent Potters Field housing scheme near Tower Bridge.The decision was announced last night (Monday) by Southwark Council, which recently signed a co-operation agreement with Berkeley Homes after years of opposing the developer's scheme. The council said a new architect would be ...
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Slowdown threatens housing targets
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has cast doubt on the government’s ability to meet its own housing targets after publishing a report showing a dramatic slowdown in the construction industry.
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Boris urges better design of affordable housing
London mayoral favourite Boris Johnson has launched his housing manifesto, calling for a renewed focus on the design of affordable housing.
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Darling cash boosts green housing
Chancellor Alistair Darling has announced that he will pour £26 million into the government’s Green Homes Service from next year in a bid to improve the sustainability credentials of the UK’s housing stock.
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NewsEco-towns ‘won’t tackle housing shortage’
Ministers have opened a “Pandora’s box” with plans for eco-towns, a senior government adviser on the controversial policy has warned.
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CPRE concedes on housing need
The Campaign to Protect Rural England has conceded this week that, in order to meet Britain’s housing needs, it may be necessary to undertake “a small readjustment” of some green belt boundaries.
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OpinionShould all housing design take account of old age?
Future-proofed houses will stop us being forced to move to care homes, says Roger Battersby; while Stewart Baseley argues that it will make new housing more expensive
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Building StudyPrevious work by Tom de Paor
See BD’s previous coverage of work by Tom de Paor, whose Dublin shop is reviewed this week
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OpinionHousing must find room for regulation
With Callcutt’s reminder that business drives housebuilders, the government must act on space
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OpinionAre poor relations between architects and housebuilders a key cause of bad housing design?
Yes, both sides should value each other more, says Cabe chief executive Richard Simmons, while Simon Hudspith of Panter Hudspith Architects believes the real problem is value and the profit imperative
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Building StudyAlison Brooks Architects makes wood work in Wandsworth
Alison Brooks’ twin timber-clad Herringbone Houses set south London shimmering
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Building StudyOlympic village life... needs village people
A month before the first practices are appointed to design the Olympic Village, BD Magazine meets three overseas firms that could offer it international flair
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Building StudyA healthy development
Malcolm Fraser Architects’ transformation of a former Edinburgh hospital site has arguably produced some of the best housing in Scotland
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NewsBoris blasts Ken’s high rise housing
Tory hopeful Boris Johnson has kicked off his mayoral campaign by accusing Ken Livingstone of “wrecking London’s skyline”.
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NewsArchitecture minister: new housing is ‘awful’
Margaret Hodge says Thames Gateway housing could repeat the mistakes of the seventies
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NewsLarch-clad social housing comes to White City
This newly completed affordable housing scheme in west London’s White City is the result of a collaboration between Cartwright Pickard and French practice B&C Architectes.
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United front to tackle housing
Housing and regeneration authorities in the North-west are to join forces in a bid to secure the future for a balanced housing market in the region.