All Sustainability articles – Page 38
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NewsArup-designed library for north Indian school takes centre stage
Arup Associates has unveiled designs for a new library at its award-winning Ladakhi Druk White Lotus School in northern India.
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NewsOlympic Stadium’s latest design unveiled
See the latest designs for the London 2012 Olympic stadium and join in the debate about its design qualities.
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NewsMCM is London’s greenest firm
MCM Architecture has topped a poll of the best green companies in London in the inaugural Sunday Times Green List.
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NewsRogers attacks eco-towns as a big mistake
Richard Rogers has launched an extraordinary criticism of the government’s eco-towns project calling it one of the government’s “biggest mistakes”.
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NewsBDP sustainability chief moves west
BDP’s head of sustainability Trevor Butler is relocating to Canada to start a new company which aims to bridge the gap between architects and engineers to realise sustainable buildings.
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NewsWill Alsop to aid Palestra's bid to generate its own power
Will Alsop has been parachuted in to help retrofit his award-winning Palestra office building in central London as part of an innovative plan to see it generate more of its electricity on site.Transport for London, which is the building’s main occupier, is installing a combined heat and power (CHP) plant ...
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TechnicalThe Code is not enough - sustainability thinking part one
In his first essay on the environment and design architect Jon Goodbun argues for a wider definition of sustainability beyond carbon and climate change. We need to change our entire production ecology, no less
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NewsFifteen sites named as eco-town shortlist is revealed
Housing minister Caroline Flint has named 15 potential locations for eco-towns. The shortlist of brownfield sites was chosen from more than 50 proposals, and will eventually be whittled down to no more than 10, each of which will provide up to 15,000 zero-carbon homes, with an affordable element of at ...
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NewsLeading architects confirmed speakers at Think
Monica von Schmalensee discusses the creation of sustainable communities in Scandinavia
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NewsBD launches first virtual sustainability event
Free to register Sustainability Now show will focus on key green issues such as the Code for Sustainable Homes and energy
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Building StudyPitman Tozer Architects’ lean, green sliver of a house in west London
Architect Luke Tozer did not stint when designing his own house to strict environmental standards on the very narrowest of sites
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Building StudyThe Pines Calyx - curvy carbon-neutral conferencing
The Pines Calyx building in Dover, designed by Helionix Designs, is the most sustainable conference and events venue in the UK. With energy consumption figures attached
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NewsHow does Fat's garden grow?
The Belvedere, a 19-storey, mixed-use timber-clad tower designed by Fat, has been put in for planning.The tower, to stand in Mile End Park in east London, has a vertical garden, a ground floor restaurant and 27 flats, designed to meet level four of the Code for Sustainable Homes. The building’s ...
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NewsChichester College revamp takes lessons from town and country
Hawkins Brown has been appointed lead architect on an £80 million scheme to redevelop Chichester College’s two campuses.
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NewsBennetts blasts eco-charity over ‘cavalier’ design snub
Architect complains environmental group dropped its design without informing practice
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NewsBennetts Associates Architects' Wessex Water HQ reviewed
Will Jones returns to a landmark sustainable building, Wessex Water Operations Centre at Claverdon Down, Bath, and reveals the post-occupation data for the scheme
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NewsFeilden Clegg Bradley Studios' Heelis HQ for the National Trust, Swindon
How a sustainable agenda and low-tech design made for an eco-conscious building
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