Housing – Page 9
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Building StudySergison Bates approach to the cul-de-sac culture in Canning Town
Sergison Bates’ regeneration of Canning Town’s Crediton Road certainly provides solid housing that complements its surroundings, but the home zone concept of open, easily accessible areas has got lost along the way due to fears of misuse
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Building StudyGeurst & Schulze's act of mediation at Le Medi
Geurst & Schulze’s Le Medi housing estate in Rotterdam fits comfortably with a career spent celebrating diverse architectural sources
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Building StudyStephen Taylor Architects’ cottage industry
With the help of a far-sighted developer, Stephen Taylor Architects has revived the cottage as a housing type
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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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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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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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Building StudyOMA has designs on the Big Apple
Rem Koolhaas today unveiled plans for OMA’s first residential high-rise in New York City.
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Building StudyPeter Barber reinvents hostel for the homeless
Peter Barber Architects’ redesign of a St Mungo’s hostel in central London is part of a radical reinvention of its culture to prepare residents for independent life
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TechnicalMaccreanor Lavington’s pioneering mixed sustainable housing in Amsterdam
The Luycksterrein community in central Amsterdam is a rich mix of live-work and private-social space
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Building StudyBroadway Malyan and Hemingway create a new blueprint for living
Architectural diversity and community living are at the heart of The Bridge, a Thames Gateway development that banishes the idea of repetitive streets of identikit boxes.
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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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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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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 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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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 StudyMVRDV’s Amsterdam housing block: a bridge over troubled water
Can MVRDV’s “see-through” housing transform Amsterdam West?
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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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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 ...