Archio has created two ‘super-sized’ villas containing dense infill housing on east London’s historic Becontree Estate. Marwa El Mubark enjoys a contemporary project that builds on the social aspirations of the original designs.
How can residential design cater for today’s lifestyles, while also meeting changing expectations around sustainability, health and wellbeing? This question was addressed by a panel of architects and developers at a round table discussion in London hosted by AT and Geberit.
The AT housing webinar that featured 17 experts discussing everything from innovative delivery models and to MMC, to sustainability, health and wellbeing, and emerging typologies.
An all-day AT webinar with Knauf Insulation, Oscar Acoustics and SIG Design & Technology exploring how we can quickly and efficiently deliver new and retrofitted homes that are sustainable, comfortable and suited to today’s lifestyle needs is taking place on Thursday 5th May.
The experience of living in two very different housing projects in Southampton – one traditionalist, one modernist – taught Owen Hatherley to ask questions about the impact of municipal decision-making on the evolution of his home town and embark on a career as a writer.
McGrath Road by Peter Barber Architects has been named the winner of the 2021 Neave Brown Award for Housing, a prize given by RIBA to the best new high-quality and affordable housing project in the UK.
Stolon Studio champions the virtues of “sociable housing”, where small communities are nurtured by shared outdoor space, but the lockdowns of the past 16 months have seen this building type truly come into its own.
An AT webinar explored how new housing typologies can complement contemporary lifestyles while also promoting greater social cohesion and sustainability.
An AT webinar exploring how new housing typologies can complement contemporary lifestyles while also promoting greater social cohesion and sustainability is taking place on Wednesday 31 March
Three Greenwich housing projects show the importance of the city to the work of Peter Barber, finds Nana Biamah-Ofosu
Urban design A new town in Scotland provides a model that others should follow, says John Melvin
