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Building sustainably: a Cork House
Sustainability takes priority with architect Matthew Barnett Howland. His house in England is made entirely of cork: 100 percent natural, 100 percent recyclable, with almost zero carbon emissions.
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Grafton’s Kingston University Town House is one of the contenders
Grafton’s Kingston University Town House, Heatherwick’s Maggie’s Centre in Leeds and Mole’s Marmalade Lane co-housing in Cambridge have all been longlisted for a prestigious EU architecture award.
Marks Barfield’s Cambridge mosque and Niall McLaughlin’s Auckland Tower in County Durham are also contenders for the 2022 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture, known as the Mies van der Rohe Award.
The European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe today announced 449 projects from 279 cities in 41 countries had made it to the first part of the longlist. A second longlist will be unveiled in the autumn taking in more recent projects. The organisers had to extend the biennial award programme into an extra year because the pandemic forced a halt to judging visits.
AJ 40 under 40: nimtim architects
18 December 2020 By Rob Wilson, illustration by Simon Hayes
The AJ 40 under 40 practice founded by Nimal Attanayake and Timothy O’Callaghan made the 2019 AJ Small Projects shortlist with its Cork House
Nimtim lays emphasis on the process of design, as much as the finished building. The practice values users’ involvement in every project. It is a matter, they say of ‘co-creation … asking questions, playing games, testing scenarios’.
Nimal Attanayake, 39, who previously worked at Penoyre & Prasad and Hawkins\Brown, and Timothy O’Callaghan, also 39, who had stints at OMA and David Chipperfield Architects, founded the practice in 2014. It followed Nimal’s diagnosis and recovery from cancer, which inspired their decision to create a ‘relatable, approachable and supportive’ practice, committed to ‘a healthy work/life balance’ and ‘adding social value’.
For most people, things such as licence plates, used lumber, bottle caps and shards of ceramic tiles and mirrors are trash. For Dan Phillips, however, founder of a for-profit construction company known as Phoenix Commotion in Huntsville, Texas, these items are treasures and can be used as construction material to build affordable houses.
“I have always suspected that an entire house could be constructed from what went into the landfill. As a child, I went to the dump and came home with many things, and they were free. It’s amazing what people throw away. As this idea percolated over the years, it became a no-brainer to build a house from recycled materials,” says Phillips.