Tagged: BREEAM

Cragside Hydro

Hydropower returns to Cragside nearly 140 years after it became the first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity. Cragside is the ‘palace of a modern magician’ (1)....

Green Fingers

Two recently installed living walls in Newcastle bring a touch of green to the urban realm. This is my favourite time of year. The garden, dormant for too many months,...

Rivergreen Revisited

Nearly 10 years since completion, I visited the Rivergreen Centre in Durham to see how it’s performing. When I returned to the North East in 2005, I didn’t know many...

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