London Yields seminar: 27 May
‘Getting Urban Agriculture off the Ground’ was the topic of a seminar held on Wednesday in conjunction with the London Yields exhibition, currently at The Building Centre.
Speakers included Mark Brearley, Head of Design for London, Carolyn Steel, author of The Hungry City, Anna Terzi, Project Officer from Sustain, PhD student Mikey Tomkins, Ruth Coulsen from [...]
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ANOTHER green rating
A group of property companies, AXA, Real Estate Investment Management and ING Real Estate have set up a rival rating system in the UK called ‘Green Rating’.
The system has already been launched in Spain, and next month will be launched in France, Italy, the Netherlands and Germany, with roll out in the US and Japan [...]
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AJ100 - Ken’s challenge to the profession
Last night ex-London mayor Ken Livingstone received an AJ100 award ‘as the living figure who has had the most significant impact on UK architecture in his lifetime.’
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The best green skyscrapers
Today’s Guardian pick of the best green skyscrapers shows tremendous variety both stylistically and geographically, ranging from New York to Seoul. Four of the seven are by UK architects. However, I’m not sure I’d want to live or work in any of them.
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Who’s who in green refurb
If you want to see a list of the leading lights in green refurb, take a look at the membership of the UKGBC’s latest task force
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AECB conference - June 11-12
This is definitely worth checking out if you haven’t already. Lots on PassivHaus, refurbishment, green materials, and more: http://www.aecb.net/PDFs/conference09/AECB%20programme.pdf
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First EU building to achieve BREEAM excellent
The European Investment Bank headquarters in Luxembourg has received a BREEAM Excellent rating
The European Investment Bank’s Luxembourg Headquarters is the first building in mainland Europe to be assessed and certified under the post construction review process.
AECOM (formerly Faber Maunsell) conducted the assessment and the Excellent rating shows an improvement on the ‘Very Good’ the design [...]
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Woody Alien
And the prize for best diagram goes to…
This is a fun project by Architectures David Tajchman in Paris. Made from ’saved wood,’ the two private houses and bookshop form a self sufficient ecosystem.
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More vehicle charging points for London
The Greater London Authority is to install thousands of refuelling points for electric cars across London. They will be placed at Tube stations, in shopping centre car parks, at offices and in residential streets. The scheme will begin later this year and is expected to cost £60 million. The money will come from the Government, [...]
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Cradle to Cradle comes to London
Cradle to Cradle co-author Michael Braungart provocatively charmed a London audience last night, setting out his seductive approach to saving the planet without revealing any of the nitty gritty of how it actually works. ’It’s not about controlling people to be less bad, but about supporting people to be good,’ says Braungart. His partner, Bill [...]
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