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The Ecological Building Society head office | Hodson Architects lesson in how to integrate commercial buildings into a sensitive rural setting. The building combines attention to detail with a pragmatic approach to sustainability. |
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Great Bow Yard | A small rural development of twelve houses in Somerset by Stride Treglown. |
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Plas Y Mor | PCKO Architects award-winning day-care centre for Gwalia Housing society. The building explores a wide range of sustainable construction and renewable energies whilst providing a safe and attractive accomodation for its users. |
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Brocks Hill | A collaboration between Henderson Scott Architects and the Insitute of Energy and Sustainable Development has produced this dedicated demonstration of sustainable construction in Leicestershire. |
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Shorne Wood | Lee Evans Partnerships bravura display of structural timberwork using locally sourced sweet chestnut forms the essence of this visitor's centre at Shorne Wood Country Park set in the Kent Downs. |
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Pines Calyx | This stunning example of rammed chalk and 'Catalan' vaulting is a conference centre located close to the White Cliffs of Dover. Designed by Helionix Design, the centre features natural ventilation, 'virtual daylight' and passivhaus thermal standards. |
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Coopers Road | ECD Architects have transformed this corner of an inner city from a poor quality 1960s estate into a popular low rise and sustainable community in Southwark. The scheme was commended by the Civic Trust in 2006. |
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BedZED | Bill Dunster's
triumphant realisation of a sustainable urban live/work community.The
development comprises of 82 homes, 18 work/live units for the Peabody
Trust in the London Borough of Sutton. |
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Attenborough Centre | Groundworks Architects RIBA Award winning exemplar building for the Attenborough Nature Centre. This visitors centre is located in a flooded gravel pit and features a wood frame and cladding along with solar panels and a water heat pump. |
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Kingsmead School | White Design's all-wood primary school in Northwich caters for 150 children. It features natural ventilation and lighting, super-insulation, rainwater harvesting and use of photovoltaic and solar panels along with a bio-mass boiler heating system. |
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Environmental Building | The BRE's offices at Garston is used to demonstrate all of the characteristics and attributes of what new “Green” building technologies have to offer. |
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Devonshire building | Dewjo'c Architects' environmental research facility at the University of Newcastle was the first building of its type to receive an 'Excellent' BREEAM rating. |
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The Earth Centre | The Solar Canopy, Welcome and Conference buildings by Fielden Clegg Bradley and Bill Dunster. |
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Arups, Solihull | Part 1 of Arup's Solihull Campus by Arup Associates. Flexible office space with heat sink floor slab and user controlled window shading. |
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Integer Housing | The result of Integer's research and development on developing green housing in the real world since 1998. |
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Downland Gridshell | Edward Cullinan and Buro Happold's extraordinary exercise in wood technology for this museum of historic buildings in Sussex. |
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Integer Millenium House | Filmed by the BBC 'Dream House' series. Originally designed in 1997 it was built at the BRE's Garston site in 2000 using available technologies and techniques. |
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Eden Project Visitor Centre | As a gateway to the famous geodesic domes in Cornwall, Nicholas Grimshaw's Visitor Centre experiments with a variety of materials and techniques. |

















