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A vintage year for housing
19 November 2010
Ten exceptional new housing schemes have won a Building for Life award, in a vintage year for housing design.
Silver lining for regenerated estate
Alexandra McMillan, CABE
8 November 2010The rise and fall of North Solihull happened at breakneck speed. Built over six years as an overspill town for Birmingham, just 20 years later it was hit hard and fast by the industrial decline of the early 1990s.
The future of Building for Life
Wayne Hemingway MBE
26 October 2010Amidst all the news about cuts this week, I want to make sure people are clear and confident about the future of Building for Life.
Rother a nice view
Paul Lavelle, advisor for urban design and homes at CABE
23 September 2010A local housing association provides a coherent response to a challenging hillside side in Canklow, Rotherham.
More than one level to bungalows
Dominic Church, CABE senior advisor
17 September 2010It seems difficult to believe that six years ago, residents were threatening to chain themselves to railings in protest against proposals to rehouse them in Hirst Gardens in Burnley.
2010 Standard achievers announced
10 September 2010
A record 55 new housing schemes have achieved a Building for Life standard this year, 50 per cent more than last year. This is the largest number in the eight years of the initiative.
Berkeley embraces Building for Life
28 July 2010
The Berkeley Group has made a solid commitment to design quality. From now on all new developments will have to meet the national standard for well designed homes and neighbourhoods.
2010 awards – what happens next
20 July 2010
More than 80 submissions have been received for this year’s Building for Life awards.
Sevenoaks, Birkenhead
Sarah Allan, head of urban design and homes at CABE
16 July 2010The Victorian terrace is such a strong emblem for good urban design that any housing that replaces it through a Pathfinder programme deserves extra scrutiny.
Barking Central, East London
Dominic Church, CABE senior advisor
18 June 2010Thinking back to my first visit to the town hall in Barking, I remember a stately building marooned on a windswept lake of asphalt. It faced onto a drab 1970s library and the grim backs and service areas of high street shops.
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