a grand design
Crossway featured on Grand Designs on Wednesday 18th Feb 2009. Since then Crossway has been accredited by the Passivhaus Institute and has become one of the UK’s first official Passive Houses. Crossway has also been shortlisted for an RIBA award, the RIBA Downland prize, Kent Design Awards as well as being a finalist in the 2009 Grand Designs Awards - below we’ve collated various media publications for your perusal;
Grand Designs - The story - Channel 4 website story overview and various supporting info. and public forum discussing the project
Grand Designs - where to buy - Channel 4 website links to various key companies and suppliers as well as another public forum discussing & enquiring about the project
Grand Designs movie clip - video clip from the final part of the programme
Grand Designs magazine articles - August 2009 issue containing various articles about Crossway and the various technologies that make the house tick
Diary blog - this blog gives a detailed look at the whole build, useful if Grand Designs left you asking questions !
Times magazine article - March 13th 2010 feature entitled “Ahead of the curve” written by Ruth Corbett with photos by Ray Main
Sustain Magazine - March 2010 Crossway has made it into Tom Wooley’s top 10 natural buildings in the UK (Volume10 Issue 06)
CNBC World Business - TV news report about zero carbon buildings featuring Crossway
Positive TV - Positive TV show featuring a 7 minute abridgd version of the Crossway tour
Positive TV - A 15 minute video tour round Crossway with Jeremy Colledge from Positive TV
Kent TV - RIBA South East Festival of Architecture piece
Kent TV - a tour round Crossway conducted by yours truly
BBC news article & video tour - Includes me doing a short walk round tour
Crossway has made the top 10 grandest Grand Designs ever !
Property Week video interview at Ecobuild
Daily Mail article Wed 18th Feb 09 - An interesting article if you excuse all the errors & misunderstandings !
Daily Telegraph article 18th Feb 09
Scottish Passive House Centre - article about Crossway with written info about the house written by Richard Hawkes
Architecture Today Magazine - March 2009 Article about PPS7 projects, including Crossway
Wealden Times article - July 2008 entitled, “Building the dream”
Wealden Times article - May 2009 entitled, “Designed for living”
Grand Designs Magazine Diary - Running bi-monthly from April 2008 to February 2009 in Grand Designs magazine covering the build of our arched eco house
Treehugger article - An interesting article with more info on the history of timbrel vaulting
Lafarge GTEC Aquaboard article
Lafarge GTEC Aquaboard data sheet
Dupont Energain article - Article from Buildtalk
Dupont Energain article - Article by Dupont
Building sustainability article
Novinky (Czech) article - Anyone speak or understand Czech ?
Grand Designs Live article - by Robert Pike, following my chat with Kevin McCloud at Grand Designs Live at Excel, London
Boidus - article written by Robert Pike, a visitor during Crossway’s open day as part of the RIBA South East festival of architecture
My Lohas magazine - June 2009 article about Crossway in Chinese, i’d love to know what it says !
Stair porn - stairs and nothing but