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VERTICAL THINKING Architect Mark Lee combined industrial scale with futuristic design when he built a ‘wrap-around’ house in yorkshire. Written by Heather Dixon.
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CUTTING IT IN THE COTSWOLDS Squeezing a 270 square metre house on to a 600 square metre plot left Laurie and Heidi Upshon with only one option... Words and pictures by Mark Williams.
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NATURAL PATINA Hudson Architects took on board the client’s brief and created a new four bedroom family home that responded to the spectacular site, with views across the suffolk salt marshes to the north.
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FOLDING SLIDING DOORS Lee Green, technical director, Kloeber UK ltd.
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THE IMPORTANCE OF PUBLIC LIABILITY INSURANCE By Paul Harrison, associate director, Belmont International Limited.
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MMC BUILDS THE DREAM The build of a new barn style home, combining spacious elegance with the very latest energy saving innovations, is being showcased by self build experts Kingspan Potton, at their self build show Centre, st neots, Cambridgeshire.
BEYOND GREEN Designed to be sensitive to the needs of the modern family 1 Zero 4 is a living, breathing form, responsible in essence for water, power and energy.
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Basements .......................................7 Bathrooms, Showers & Wet rooms...7 - 9 Building Products ........................9 - 12 Cladding & External Fixtures .......26 - 27 Doors, Windows & Conservatories.........................41 - 49 Eco & Green Products ...............52 - 53 Finance & Insurance..................50 - 51 Fires & Fireplaces............................28 Fixings & Fastenings ........................53 Floors & Flooring.............................12 Glass & Glazing.............................24 Groundworks & Sewage Treatment.....24 Insulation.......................................53 Interiors & Interior Design..................27 Kitchens & Appliances .....................28 Lighting & Electrical .........................56 MMC ....................................58 - 60 Plant, Tools & Equipment...................53 Pools & Spas..................................54 Rainwater Products ...................49 - 50 Roofing ........................................62 Smart Homes & Security ............60 - 61 Smoke & Fire Protection....................62 Stairs & Staircase .....................62 - 63 Stonework & Masonry .....................63 Timber & Joinery.......................63 - 64
4 SELFBUILDER NEWS
16 FUTURISTIC LOW ENERGY
HOUSE – THE FINAL CHAPTER
29 HEATING & RENEWABLE ENERGY
SUPPLEMENT
40 EDITOR’S FOCUS
55 HOMEBUILDING & RENOVATING
SHOW
56 HOW TO DESIGN & BUILD
A WET ROOM
65 CLASSIFIED & DIRECTORY
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