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Ibstock has recently worked with Stride Treglown architects to help realise a ‘wraparound’ vision and seamless finish for a striking development of high-end eco homes.

From the grand landscaped drive leading to the main entrance, the library spaces, spa facilities, pocket gardens, and individual apartments to the detail of textured wallpapers and bespoke primrose-motif door handles, Squire and Partners’ architecture, landscape and interiors teams have worked together to craft a high quality development that provides effortless elegant living for the residents of 50 St Edmund’s Terrace.

Tom Luck, Sustainability Consultant at Eight Associates talks to Future Constructor & Architect about how protected trees can potentially extend design proposals.

Simply put, sustainability is the capacity to endure. Yet, we live in an age of greenwash marketing where a cacophony of ‘sustainababble’ has undermined the sustainable concept. Darren Evans of Darren Evans Assessments explains more.

When Tom Hogg commissioned a new £6m office building and data centre for his software firm CDL, he handed Edge Architects a sustainability brief with standards that exceeded those demanded by current building regulations.

As one door closes, another opens. Or, in the case of Sunderland College, as one building at the end of its lifespan is demolished, two state-of-the-art buildings are created to replace it.

As construction of the bespoke, managed workspace development Blyth Workspace concludes, once vacant land at Commissioners Quay on the estuary of the River Blyth in Northumberland is steadily being transformed into a much anticipated mixed-use development.

Trapezoidal pavilion roofs and facades, clad in a golden copper alloy, define the welcoming character of a new children’s nursery building designed with a firm sustainability agenda in mind, as copper producer Aurubis explains.

Some of the best performing buildings assessed under the sustainable buildings standard, BREEAM, were recognised at the annual BREEAM awards celebration hosted by TV architect Charlie Luxton in London on 3rd March 2015.

Alex Baalham, Associate Director at Ramboll UK reflects on designing the sustainable landmark, Moorgate Exchange.