Cartwright Pickard Architects

Prince’s Street is a new office building in Doncaster that will help boost commercial confidence in the town and acts as a catalyst to inspire further building initiatives for the surrounding area.

Outwood Ghost, Wakefield, is a new low-rise eco-housing scheme commissioned by the Yorkshire Housing Association. It is a combination of conscious building ethic and efficient use of sustainable materials that the Code for Sustainable Homes awarded this development a rating of Level Four.

The NovoHouse is officially unveiled by Cartwright Pickard Architects and Living Steel today, 13 October 2009, at the World Steel Association Annual Conference (Worldsteel-43) in Beijing, China. A life-size model of the NovoHouse demonstrates how it could offer a housing solution for many emerging communities across the world.

The Dujiangyan region, surrounding the city of ChengDu, is largely agricultural, with two-storey houses typically for four to five people. The most influential geographic factor is that the province is in China’s earthquake region, lies on the Longmenshan fault. The Great Sichuan Quake of 12 May 2008, registered 7.9 on the Richter scale, and has been described as the 19th most deadly earthquake of all time. Over 90,000 people were killed or reported missing, and millions left homeless after buildings collapsed. The Government has since pledged to spend 1 trillion yuan (about $146.5 billion) over the next three years to rebuild areas ravaged by the earthquake.

The eco-friendly residential development, commissioned by The South Yorkshire Housing Association who is the lead Registered Social Landlord for the West Rotherham Area Development Framework, is now complete.