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  • Friday, 21 June, 2019
    Architecture
    Inside the eco-home with bills of £200 a year

    The Passivhaus ultra-low-energy standard has been applied to an award-winning residence in London

  • Friday, 25 May, 2018
    Architecture
    The architects creating immersive views of unbuilt spaces

    VR headsets allow clients to experience a building before a single brick is laid

  • Friday, 16 February, 2018
    Sustainability
    Wheel of history turns to water mills for energy

    Making the turbines fish-friendly could throw a spanner in the works

  • Friday, 10 November, 2017
    Architecture
    Towering timbers at World Architecture Festival

    High buildings made of wood feature in the shortlist for this year’s Building of the Year award

  • Friday, 27 October, 2017
    Architecture
    World Architecture Festival: homes and nature

    New designs offer a breath of fresh air

  • Friday, 1 September, 2017
    Expats
    Baby steps in Berlin

    Natacha Neumann and husband Alex found the city the ideal place to start a children’s organic snack business

  • Thursday, 24 August, 2017
    Architecture
    Hemp brings high technology to homes

    Plant-based building material offers a green solution to construction

  • Friday, 10 February, 2017
    Architecture
    Polar architecture: green ideas in pole position

    The latest buildings in Antarctica and the Arctic are designed to be zero-carbon dwellings for year-round living

  • Tuesday, 27 September, 2016
    House & Home
    As new as the hills: homes of the future

    Wooden skyscrapers and homes that resemble mountain peaks are among the housing concepts on this year’s shortlist

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  • Friday, 23 September, 2016
    House & Home
    World Architecture Festival: housing for all

    This year’s event features rural homes, sleek skyscraper apartments and tiny starter studios across the globe

  • Friday, 16 September, 2016
    House & Home
    Sustainable to snake-proof: the best new homes

    In the first of a mini series, Paul Miles looks at nominations for the Completed Houses category at this year’s awards

  • Friday, 2 September, 2016
    House & Home
    Rise of the river nomad

    A quarter of boats on UK waterways are primary homes, offering the chance to live in the heart of a city at a tenth of the cost

  • Friday, 8 July, 2016
    Life & Arts
    The people who live in glass houses

    Experiments to enclose dwellings within greenhouses are bearing fruit, both literally and in terms of sustainability

  • Friday, 8 April, 2016
    Life & Arts
    Divine insulation: passivhaus architecture

    As global temperatures reach record highs, developers of cool, energy-efficient houses are in demand

  • Friday, 18 March, 2016
    House & Home
    Homes designed to be tree-huggers

    Designers are creating buildings that wrap around living woodland or have trees growing through them

  • Friday, 12 February, 2016
    Life & Arts
    Buildings brought out of the shadows

    Innovations such as solar technology, giant mirrors and reflector nets are helping to bring buildings out of the shadows

  • Friday, 23 October, 2015
    House & Home
    Unbuilt towers with a view to the future

    High-rise homes-to-be with built-in recreational space feature at next month’s World Architecture Festival awards

  • Friday, 16 October, 2015
    Life & Arts
    The evolution of high-rise buildings

    Tower block designs feature heavily in the Completed Housing category at next month’s World Architecture Festival awards

  • Friday, 9 October, 2015
    House & Home
    Nature to the fore at architecture awards

    Green-themed designs feature strongly in the Completed Houses category at the World Architecture Festival

  • Friday, 2 October, 2015
    Arts
    The people logging off to live in a cabin

    A look at ‘Cabin Porn’, the new book by Zach Klein, a web entrepreneur who built an offline community in remote woodland

  • Friday, 25 September, 2015
    Waste management & recycling
    Architecture ripe for ‘repurposing’

    Heritage is not just about saving the historic — gasworks, silos, even public toilets, can be ‘repurposed’ into homes

  • Friday, 18 September, 2015
    House & Home
    Can one building transform Rotterdam?

    A spectacular market hall — with its gigantic ceiling mural — is helping to transform the Dutch city’s image

  • Thursday, 23 July, 2015
    House & Home
    What is the UK’s best designed home?

    A flint-clad house reminiscent of an Aztec temple is among the entries on the longlist for this year’s architecture award

  • Friday, 27 March, 2015
    Life & Arts
    The contemporary homes built within ruins

    Derelict structures are being turned into dwellings that incorporate their original features

  • Friday, 14 November, 2014
    House & Home
    Local architecture without limits

    Designers are using traditional forms and materials to create exciting, innovative homes that look to the future

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