All Sustainability articles – Page 13
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NewsArchitype and Jon Broome land Segal-style housing project
Community land trust beats housing association to develop Lewisham site
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TechnicalHere East, Hackney Wick, by Hawkins Brown
The former media hub of the London 2012 Olympic Games is presently the focus of a £100m redevelopment and soon to be a creative hub – in what its developers hope is the start of a wider regeneration in the east London region
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TechnicalWhat the Dutch can teach us about cladding
Energiesprong, a Dutch government-supported super-insulation approach, is being transferred to the UK housing market. Could it offer an answer to the country’s environmental and fuel poverty issues?
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NewsMole designs Cambridge's first co-housing
Architect working with Swedish off-site housing manufacturer
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NewsFeilden & Mawson’s Parliamentary Education Centre opens
Schools building opens after 10 years - and possibly for 10 years
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FeaturesHousing design awards: The winners
This year’s Housing Design Awards show that the sector’s return to strength has brought with it bold and experimental design, with council housing and housing for older people in particular taking some unexpected forms
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NewsRobin Hood Gardens easier to redevelop than Park Hill, says Urban Splash founder
‘Just because it’s old, tired and unpopular doesn’t make a good reason to demolish it’
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FeaturesEcobuild 2015 programme preview
From an election manifesto for construction to the latest in biophilic design, there is something for all tastes at Ecobuild. Andrew Brister picks out some of the highlights
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AnalysisGet happy: Wellbeing in buildings
There is a strong body of evidence of the tangible ways that building design can improve wellbeing. Now an increasing number of major clients are realising that this is not just good for employees’ health – it’s good for business. Katie Puckett reports
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NewsWolfson Prize winner’s frustration at Garden City ‘impasse’
Urbed’s David Rudlin hits out at councils’ response to his winning idea
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NewsGreen chief to take key role at Lend Lease
UK Green Building Council chief executive Paul King to step down next year
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Building Study1-6 Copper Lane by Henley Halebrown Rorrison Architects
Cohousing is a concept proving popular in North America and parts of mainland Europe but, despite being a potentially viable answer to the housing shortage, it is yet to catch on in the UK. Ike Ijeh visits the first cohousing build in London to see if it’s an idea worth ...
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TechnicalHanging gardens could turn Greenwich into new Jerusalem
Heneghan Peng’s new School of Architecture and Construction for the University of Greenwich will host 14 roof gardens, including ponds, teaching spaces, beehives and even a couple of vineyards - the first permanent algaeponics installation in the UK
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OpinionA short history of eco-supermarkets
As the axe hangs over Sainsbury’s pioneering Greenwich eco-store, Ike Ijeh looks at how the typology has evolved in the last 15 years
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TechnicalHow to be cool: Tackling overheating in UK homes
Overheating in homes is set to become an increasingly urgent issue, especially in the capital, as global temperatures rise. With energy legislation demanding that buildings become ever more airtight, what is the best way for designers to respond?
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NewsMiami nice: Herzog & de Meuron's Perez Art Museum
With its passive design and canopy of hanging gardens, Herzog de Meuron’s Perez Art Museum shows a new way of building in the Florida sun
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AnalysisCustom build: Give us the tools
Once trumpeted as a way of raising housing output by as many as 50,000 homes a year, custom build was responsible for barely a fifth of that figure last year. So what’s the hold-up and can anything be done to reinvigorate the market?
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OpinionWould the loss of Sainsbury’s eco-store be a blow for sustainability?
The building’s architect Paul Hinkin argues for preservation, but Robert Park says the idea of sustainability is changing