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Hodson Architects lesson in how to integrate commercial buildings into a sensitive rural setting. The building combines attention to detail with a pragmatic approach to sustainability.
Great Bow Yard A small rural development of twelve houses in Somerset by Stride Treglown.
OMF Derek Cox Architects have suceeded in creating a quite and beguiling building in the centre of Liverpool to benefit children learning about the environment and healthy eating.
Plas Y Mor PCKO Architects award-winning day-care centre for Gwalia Housing society. The building explores a wide range of sustainable construction and renewable energies whilst providing a safe and attractive accomodation for its users.
Brocks Hill A collaboration between Henderson Scott Architects and the Insitute of Energy and Sustainable Development has produced this dedicated demonstration of sustainable construction in Leicestershire.
Shorne Wood Lee Evans Partnerships bravura display of structural timberwork using locally sourced sweet chestnut forms the essence of this visitor's centre at Shorne Wood Country Park set in the Kent Downs.
Pines Calyx This stunning example of rammed chalk and 'Catalan' vaulting is a conference centre located close to the White Cliffs of Dover. Designed by Helionix Design, the centre features natural ventilation, 'virtual daylight' and passivhaus thermal standards.
Coopers Road ECD Architects have transformed this corner of an inner city from a poor quality 1960s estate into a popular low rise and sustainable community in Southwark. The scheme was commended by the Civic Trust in 2006.
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Bill Dunster's triumphant realisation of a sustainable urban live/work community.The development comprises of 82 homes, 18 work/live units for the Peabody Trust in the London Borough of Sutton.
Attenborough Centre Groundworks Architects RIBA Award winning exemplar building for the Attenborough Nature Centre. This visitors centre is located in a flooded gravel pit and features a wood frame and cladding along with solar panels and a water heat pump.
Kingsmead School White Design's all-wood primary school in Northwich caters for 150 children. It features natural ventilation and lighting, super-insulation, rainwater harvesting and use of photovoltaic and solar panels along with a bio-mass boiler heating system.
Environmental Building The BRE's offices at Garston is used to demonstrate all of the characteristics and attributes of what new “Green” building technologies have to offer.
Devonshire building Dewjo'c Architects' environmental research facility at the University of Newcastle was the first building of its type to receive an 'Excellent' BREEAM rating.
The Earth Centre The Solar Canopy, Welcome and Conference buildings by Fielden Clegg Bradley and Bill Dunster.
Arups, Solihull Part 1 of Arup's Solihull Campus by Arup Associates. Flexible office space with heat sink floor slab and user controlled window shading.
Integer Housing The result of Integer's research and development on developing green housing in the real world since 1998.
Downland Gridshell Edward Cullinan and Buro Happold's extraordinary exercise in wood technology for this museum of historic buildings in Sussex.
Filmed by the BBC 'Dream House' series. Originally designed in 1997 it was built at the BRE's Garston site in 2000 using available technologies and techniques.
As a gateway to the famous geodesic domes in Cornwall, Nicholas Grimshaw's Visitor Centre experiments with a variety of materials and techniques.