Mon, 25 May 2026 13:07:58 +0100 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.0.3 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=129&Focus=17147#Comment_17147 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=129&Focus=17147#Comment_17147 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:28:41 +0000 James Norton
RE Bike sheds,

Knew I could rely on you!

J]]> https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=129&Focus=17152#Comment_17152 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=129&Focus=17152#Comment_17152 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:52:24 +0000 biffvernon :)]]> https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=129&Focus=17159#Comment_17159 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=129&Focus=17159#Comment_17159 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:52:23 +0000 James Norton
J]]> https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=129&Focus=17522#Comment_17522 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=129&Focus=17522#Comment_17522 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:51:15 +0100 caliwag Doesn't bode well for the good people of Gateshead, and the Ikea house!!

Anyone got a link to Wayne Hemmingway's grand designs?]]> https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=129&Focus=17837#Comment_17837 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=129&Focus=17837#Comment_17837 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:22:37 +0100 PPMD Contamination is not a problem that comes just from CO2 particles, visual pollution is devastating too, it can bring you down really fast if you constantly face an ugly building, a horrid dense grey street or a forest of dead dry trees.

i'll make my best to bring up proyects that meet not only the 'green parameters' but also the aesthetic ones. We're not only lungs, guys!

greets,



PP]]> https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=129&Focus=19269#Comment_19269 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=129&Focus=19269#Comment_19269 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:29:05 +0100 nightkin https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=129&Focus=19288#Comment_19288 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=129&Focus=19288#Comment_19288 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:41:54 +0100 caliwag
I have just picked up a copy of The New Small House by RFS Yorke and P Whiting published by the Architectural Press (1953). A cracking little book which unusually shows floor plans which is just as well because the entire book is filled with, what we would judge as, mere council houses.

They are entirely of their time...post war Britain...everything fresh and light.

It is easy to forget that...the gloom that the enveloped the trad (and now sought after) terrace. I recall, in Hull (late in modern housing policy), famillies petitioning to get out of their terraces in 1982...no matter that they were to live miles out of town, with no services etc, they wanted out.

That was the dream sold to the public from the post war era...and still in Hull in 1982.

I dont blame them...there were some houses then that only had running water in the yard...1982!!!

Anyway...aesthetics doesn't matter unless you can pay for it. Generally speaking those that can pay for it have no idea either... I come back to my hobby horse...actually people in the UK want a bit of "Country Life" style...be it in a semi or a cottage or a flat, people are craving for style (might be IKEA mind)...and dont giveme the Grand Designs stuff...people see that as mere entertainment: others stuggling "we wouldn't be so stupid, would we?"]]> https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=129&Focus=20259#Comment_20259 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=129&Focus=20259#Comment_20259 Thu, 08 May 2008 22:45:13 +0100 walrus

No matter what the "experts" say

"Ex" is a has been, "spert" is a drip under pressure ]]> https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=129&Focus=20261#Comment_20261 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=129&Focus=20261#Comment_20261 Thu, 08 May 2008 23:11:31 +0100 caliwag One man's minimalism is another man's boredom.

It is a matter of travel and education...the more you experience, the more scope there is for change and something different (and acceptance of same)...thank God! We all have the opportunity to choose chocolate box or concrete box, and everything in between (planners willing) but there is no right or wrong.

Anyway the uneducated nimby masses will decide for you.]]>