All Housing articles – Page 175
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News
Superdense housing must avoid mistakes of the past, warns architects’ report
A new wave of “superdense” urban housing estates must be developed with great care to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, warns a report by four of Britain’s largest housing practices.The study, Recommendations for Living at Superdensity, claims that schemes of between 150 and 500 homes per ha are ...
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Building StudyMVRDV’s Amsterdam housing block: a bridge over troubled water
Can MVRDV’s “see-through” housing transform Amsterdam West?
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NewsSir Peter unveils Madrid housing
The newly knighted Peter Cook has unveiled the first scheme by his new practice Crab — a housing project in Vallecas, Madrid.
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OpinionShould Cambridge build high-rise towers for housing?
Germaine Greer, who will be putting the case in a debate to be broadcast on Sunday, advocates 75-storey blocks of flats. But Peter Studdart says there are more human ways of building high-density
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Kelly welcomes boost to housing
Communities England, the new housing and regeneration body, will boost housing supply across the country and help revitalise deprived towns and cities, communities secretary Ruth Kelly said this week.
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Technical‘It’s the mass housing market that needs the most inspiration’
Kevin Brennan, national housing manager, Velux
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OpinionShould sustainable housing look to Haussmann rather than Thoreau?
The German tabloid Bild, known for its unstinting support of tough enforcement of law and order, and an obsessive opposition to the country’s former red-green government, has recently made a habit of opening with alarmist headlines about climate change, imminent floods and storms, and the extinction of animal species. ...
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News‘Pavilion’ housing for east London
Rivington Street Studio has received planning permission for this £2 million concrete and timber office building, the final element of its Back Church Lane scheme in London’s Tower Hamlets.
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TechnicalIn detail: Bethnal Green housing, east London
Architect: Stephen Taylor ArchitectsStair fabricator: Tin Tab Narrow courtyards bring light to the rear of three ingeniously planned terraced houses in the East End of London. A laminated timber staircase twists its way up next to the light well bringing a sculptural finesse to the interior.The 2m x 2m courtyards ...
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TechnicalIn detail: Woodward Place housing, New Islington, Manchester
Architect: FatStructural engineer: Whitby BirdFor this development of 23 social housing units Fat has worked closely with the residents to make a strong urban street frontage using conventional construction techniques and incorporating symbolic references to the idea of home.New Islington is an ex-industrial area so the canals and land have ...
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OpinionShould housing associations use partnering agreements?
Cyril Sweett says give member architects more work, but Walter Menteth argues that they thwart the talented
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OpinionA new recipe for social housing
Tim Williams, chair of the Housing Corporation’s commission into social housing at the Thames Gateway, tells BD how he hopes his report can bring about a revolution in the quality of UK housing design
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OpinionQuality is the missing ingredient in the housing mix
David Levitt says the housing sector’s tick-boxing culture needs to change before architects can make a difference
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OpinionHigh-quality design must be at the heart of social housing if it is to be truly successful
Our homes affect every aspect of our lives: our health, our wealth, our happiness.
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OpinionSocial housing requires elevated standards of design
Excellent design is more critical to social housing than most other building types. Almost 50% of social tenants are not in formal employment, and some 40% of lettings each year go to households with some sort of support need.
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OpinionA Century of housing
Much of the failure of multistorey housing is blamed on architects as well as the technical systems that allowed these new estates to be built cheaply and fast.
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OpinionSocial housing’s ambivalent legacy
The canon of supposedly great social housing includes many schemes that people put forward as their most hated buildings
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OpinionAre architects to blame for soulless housing estates?
David Lammy fears architects could be repeating the mistakes of the past, while David Barber argues we must devolve ownership of social housing
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Building StudyChance Street houses by Stephen Taylor Architects
Cheap studio space made Bethnal Green a favourite with artists. But now others are moving into this part of east London. Ellis Woodman looks at how Stephen Taylor Architects’ new residential project copes with a tight street layout that is a legacy of the area’s less affluent past. Photos by ...
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OpinionWhy UK housing can’t just go Dutch
In creating South-east England’s growth areas to boost housing supply, the Department for Communities & Local Government, and previously the ODPM, encouraged the UK building industry to look to modern methods of construction and procurement. Within this, the Netherlands was cited as a precedent.