‘Social housing at its best’ | Chowdhury Walk named best homes in Britain at Wood Awards
Timber-first, climate-friendly, and affordable, this housing project in East London – designed by Al-Jawad Pike with engineers Momentum – has been declared Great Britain’s best new homes at the Wood Awards 2025. Chowdhury Walk is deliberately climate conscious, right from the foundations – where stone columns minimise the amount of...
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Command of the Oceans
A dock finished for the finest fleet the sun ever beheld, built lately by our gracious sovereign Elizabeth' is a 1606 description of the naval dockyard in Chatham, on the river Medway.
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Belarusian Memorial Chapel
When the nuclear power plant at Chernobyl exploded in 1986, it devastated the land and people of Belarus with radioactive fallout, contaminating a quarter of the country. A new timber chapel commemorates the thirtieth anniversary of that terrible event, which forced thousands of people to evacuate their homes and land...
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