Articles by Nat Barker

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Keiji Ashizawa designs Blue Bottle Coffee shop for “cave-like space” in Maebashi hotel

October 26, 2021 Nat Barker 0
Coffee shop with concrete walls

Japanese studio Keiji Ashizawa Design used bricks and a warm colour palette in its design for the Blue Bottle Coffee shop in the Shiroya Hotel in Maebashi, Japan. The studio designed the coffee shop, which opened last month, inside a space within the newly built Green Tower at the Shiroiya Hotel that it described as

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LETI publishes Climate Emergency Retrofit Guide to support net-zero target

October 22, 2021 Nat Barker 0
Thermal image of heat loss from house

The London Energy Transformation Initiative has published a report that sets out a blueprint for retrofitting UK homes in order to meet national climate change targets. Launched by the London Energy Transformation Initiative (LETI) with the help of more than 100 leading architects, engineers and building experts, the Climate Emergency Retrofit Guide is intended to set

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Peter Barber Architects’ “intelligent, dynamic and original” McGrath Road named UK’s best affordable housing scheme

October 20, 2021 Nat Barker 0
McGrath Road by Peter Barber Architects

The McGrath Road housing project by Peter Barber Architects in east London has won this year’s RIBA Neave Brown Award for Housing 2021. The brick scheme was given the award, which is presented to the best new affordable housing scheme in the UK by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), at a ceremony last week. “Intelligent, dynamic and original –

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