Architectural Insights | Sustainable Architects

Keeping Our Schools Cool During a Heatwave published in Public Sector Build Journal

Louise Boddie explores effective strategies to keep our schools cool during heatwaves to ensure comfortable learning environments for students and teachers in an insightful article for Public Sector

The Housing Crisis Unveiled: Exploring Challenges and Architectural Solutions

The UK has long been grappling with a housing crisis that shows no signs of abating. From a shortage of homes to increasing property prices and sustainability concerns, this article explores the det

Retrofit Case Study: The Grade II* listed Institute of Education at UCL

With the climate crisis continuing to accelerate, and campaigners pushing for #RetroFirst, the new question is: should we demolish or reuse? For some time, the industry’s conversation around sustain

Highlights of 2022

2022 was a year of projects, initiatives and an award win that we are immensely proud of and so today we are sharing some of the highlights! Duke Street Riverside Award Win! We were delighted that Duk

Retrofit Series: Building in Resilience

Despite the unseasonably warm Autumn, the successive hikes to energy prices begin to hurt as we turn on our heating systems for the winter. Sadly, these prices are unlikely to abate over the coming

Retrofit Series: Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste

As the hottest summer on record fades away and the cold months draw nearer, it’s the thought on everyone’s minds: how to cope with their energy bills. Liz Truss’ plan to freeze bills for two ye

A Closer Look: Chantry Barn

Chantry Barn is a Grade II listed timber framed barn in Suffolk that had been left redundant and was beginning to fall into disrepair. It presented quite an imposing black timber-clad structure set a

OWCH! The Older Women’s Co-Housing Project

In our recent post about later-life co-housing we talked about OWCH, the Older Women’s Co-Housing project in New Barnet, also known as the ‘New Ground’ project. Our Georgie Day wrote a more de

Atlantic Beach Regeneration Competition: Lewis Williams Has Made It To The Finals!

We are immensely proud of Architectural Assistant Lewis Williams whose submission to the Atlantic Beach Regeneration Competition has been made it to the final round! The competition’s jury anonymo

Houses & Trees #2 – ‘Wood-Hoods’, ‘Neighbour-woods’ and a True ‘Forest Village’

My recent post about houses and trees was part of a long-standing interest in the topic which is at least as old as a thought-experiment called ‘Forest Village’, which I carried out over a d

Duke Street Riverside: Design Insights by Anthony Hudson

The dust has settled on Duke Street, the newest building at Norwich University of the Arts’, and we are celebrating its official opening. This gives us an opportunity to look back and mull o

Senior Co-Housing: ‘Right-Sizing’ Later-Life Accommodation

McCarthy & Stone have recently published research which suggests a third of older people in the UK would consider moving house to ‘right-size’ their later-life accommodation, but the lack o