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

Guardian 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

Cambridge University article

Lafarge GTEC Aquaboard article

Lafarge GTEC Aquaboard data sheet

Dupont Energain article - Article from Buildtalk

Dupont Energain article - Article by Dupont

CNET News article

Kent Online article

Kentish Express article

Inside Housing article

Building sustainability article

Green Building press 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