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  • Friday, 17 June, 2022
    Architecture
    The pros and cons of stone buildings

    ‘Massive stone’ can be better for the environment than concrete and steel but detractors question the impact of quarrying

  • Friday, 3 December, 2021
    Architecture
    Straw-inspiring: houses made of the humble bale

    As a building material, the food byproduct is highly insulating, enduring and carbon-friendly

  • Friday, 24 September, 2021
    The best of House & Home
    Building homes for a heating planet

    Few new dwellings are designed to cope with rising temperatures — could traditional architecture point us in the right direction?

  • Friday, 9 July, 2021
    Architecture
    The Passivhaus principle: how to build an ultra-low-energy house

    Following the standard’s technical strictures need not preclude creative flair, as several new homes demonstrate

  • Friday, 16 April, 2021
    House & Home
    The owls who came to stay: why developers are building wildlife habitats into our homes

    Living walls, insect hotels and bricks with inside nest space are part of an effort to increase biodiversity

  • Friday, 21 June, 2019
    Architecture
    Inside the Camden eco-home with energy 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
    Life & Arts
    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: restoring water mills to produce energy

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

  • Friday, 10 November, 2017
    Sustainability
    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
    Life & Arts
    World Architecture Festival: homes that work with nature

    New designs offer a breath of fresh air

  • Friday, 1 September, 2017
    Life & Arts
    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
    Life & Arts
    Hemp brings high technology to homes

    Plant-based building material offers a green solution to construction

  • Friday, 10 February, 2017
    Life & Arts
    Polar architecture: the research bases built using green ideas

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

  • Tuesday, 27 September, 2016
    Life & Arts
    World Architecture Festival: homes of the future

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

  • Friday, 23 September, 2016
    Life & Arts
    World Architecture Festival focuses on ‘housing for everyone’

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

  • Friday, 16 September, 2016
    Life & Arts
    World Architecture Festival: sustainable homes — with no snakes

    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
    Life & Arts
    Why more people are choosing to live on canal boats

    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
    Why some people are enclosing their entire home within glass

    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
    Life & Arts
    The architects embracing nature with tree-hugging homes

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

  • Friday, 12 February, 2016
    Life & Arts
    How architects are finding new ways to use sunlight and shade

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

  • Friday, 23 October, 2015
    Life & Arts
    The unbuilt residential 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 vertical village: 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
    Life & Arts
    Completed houses compete for World Architecture Festival award

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

  • Friday, 2 October, 2015
    Life & Arts
    ‘Cabin Porn’ and the people logging off to live in the wild

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

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