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The Sustainability Centre gets planning approval for ‘deep-green’ Learning Centre retrofit

The Sustainability Centre in the heart of the South Downs National Park has been granted planning permission for their ‘New Learning Centre’. The Sustainability Centre has been providing community education and support for 21 years, with a ... 

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Scotland Build Expo 2019- A growing interest in Passivhaus

It was standing room only for the large crowd that gathered for the Passivhaus seminar at Scotland Build on March 20th. It was one of the best attended seminars of the two day Expo; clear evidence of the growing interested in Passivhaus in Scotland. The seminar was chaired by Sarah Lewis of 

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Shaldon Road Community Housing Starts On-Site

I was utterly shocked to read the Guardian’s story last week about the London developer who had segregated play areas for rich and poor children by blocking social housing tenants from using a central ‘communal’ play area. In the same week, we celebrated the commencement of the site stage of our Shaldon Road ... 

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RIBA Young Ambassadors

Lydia Moth and Chris Rooney from Architype Hereford represented the practice as part of the RIBA Architecture Ambassadors programme. Architecture Ambassadors are young architectural professionals ... 

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Hawkins\Brown and Architype complete first phase of Agar Grove, the UK’s largest Passivhaus development for London Borough of Camden

Hawkins\Brown acted as lead architect, while Architype acted as Passivhaus delivery architect for the first phase of the scheme, which provides 38 homes that are all socially rented to existing estate tenants, enabling the next phase of development to move ... 

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Associate Gareth Selby presents the Enterprise Centre

2018 Passivhaus Trust Awards

The Passivhaus Trust Awards took place on the 24thOctober alongside the 2018 London Build expo. It was an especially exciting occasion for Architype, with the Enterprise Centre at the

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