The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Natural ventilation: Mittal Children’s Medical Centre, London
One of four case studies examining the use of natural ventilation in health centres
Retrofit & sustainable
The AJ champions the retrofit of existing buildings with the AJ Retrofit Awards and the RetroFirst campaign. Here you can find good examples of how architects have reused existing buildings, or designed highly sustainable buildings
Will biomass-powered district heating work in the UK?
Sustainability editor Hattie Hartman considers the potential for locally sourced heating systems
Whitecross, Scotland’s sustainable masterplan
Hattie Hartman investigates Cadell2’s green masterplan for Whitecross, Scotland
A guide to carbon profiling
Sustainability editor Hattie Hartman investigates a clever way of quantifying a building’s total carbon use
Germaine Greer on Barratt’s Home for the Future
The first person to design a gracious zero carbon home will have to be a genius at least as innovative and epoch-making as Brunelleschi.
Sustainable new-build social housing
Architects: Levitt Bernstein; DO Architecture; Anne Thorne Architects Partnership; PCKO; PRP; Collective Architecture; Cole Thompson Anders Architects.
Terraced house refurbishment, Mottingham, London by ECD Architects
Considered use of products should ensure that ECD Architects’ retrofit of a social-housing property achieves an 80 per cent reduction in carbon emissions.
Innovate Green Office, Leeds by Rio Architects
Rio Architects’ Innovate Green Office in Leeds has achieved the highest ever BREEAM rating.
Offices for Loch Lomond National Park Authority by Page Park Architects
After two years of intensive engineering research, Glasgow-based Page\Park Architects’ new headquarters for the Loch Lomond National Park Authority opened in May 2008.