Bere Admin November 2nd, 2009
Centurion Magazine, written for American Express Platinum Card holders, has written a piece entitled ‘Ecotecture’. I think that this is probably a Good Thing.
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Bere Admin July 30th, 2009
Hattie Hartmann of the Architects Journal says architects should be ashamed of their abysmal record on carbon emissions, 30th July 2009
This is an excellent article by a journalist who is getting fed-up with ‘greenwash’ about sustainability.
However, what is not picked out, and seems to be incredibly difficult for many people including architects to understand, is that you can get a low-carbon building that has frugal energy consumption, or you can get a low-carbon building that guzzles energy and burns masses of ‘zero carbon’ biomass. (Of course an incredibly frugal building that also uses a tiny amount of biomass in order to try to become zero carbon is not a bad thing at all but such buildings are extremely rare in the UK). Continue Reading »
Bere Admin November 25th, 2008
Article for The Green Building Press by Justin Bere.
http://www.greenbuildingpress.co.uk/shop/article.php?article_id=50
Bere Admin November 10th, 2008
Three case studies about improving the energy efficiency of existing housing, written by Jo Moulds for Green Building Magazine.
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Bere Admin October 30th, 2008
6 October, 2008
By Michael Willoughby
Michael Willoughby went to visit Bere Architecture’s Muse, a proto-PassivHaus in Newington Green, east London, with his camera.
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Justin Bere has received a commendation from Islington Council in their first ever green business awards.
The awards identify the best eco-companies and encourage others to reach and exceed the standards they have set.
Bere Admin June 2nd, 2008
Focus house has recently been placed on the market and was featured on the cover of Foxtons estate agents magazine in North London.
Bere Admin March 25th, 2008
Easter Sunday saw BBC1’s Countryfile programme feature Justin Bere’s eco-house ‘The Muse’. Interviewing both Justin Bere, the architect and owner of the house and Dusty Gedge of Living Roofs, the programme provided an in-depth review of the achievements and aspirations that have driven the development of this pioneering project in the Canonbury area of Islington. Continue Reading »
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Evening Standard
6 February 2008
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Bere Admin January 20th, 2008
By Jill Macnair
The Sunday Times
20 January 2008
Home gave three leading eco-architects different budgets and one brief: to create a sustainable urban family dwelling. Our correspondent is impressed by the results.
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Justin Bere, principal of the north London-based firm Bere Architects, designed a four-bedroom, 1,800 sq ft home costing £400,000 (plus land costs). His residential projects include Focus House, built in 2006 in Finsbury Park, north London, which won the Riba London Region Award 2007, among other prizes. His practice is a devotee of PassivHaus, an established German style of energy-efficient construction. Continue Reading »
Bere Admin December 27th, 2007
Grand Designs Magazine
December 2007
Jutting out at the end of a mundane Victorian terrace in North London, what looks like a couple of striking zinc-clad boxes stacked on top of each other turns out to be the three bedroom family home of Edward Gibbs and Felicity Caning. Designed by eco architect Justin Bere, Focus House occupies the skinny, wedge-shaped sit of a former car park, a plot that was big enough for a grand total of five cars. The new 250sqm building is a mind-boggling example of how to manipulate an awkward piece of land, especially as ‘it isn’t the rectangular shape you get at the end of most terraces,’ says graphic designer and illustrator Edward.
admin October 24th, 2007
By Pamela Buxton
Building Design
12 October 2007
Architect Justin Bere is so determined to be part of the solution to climate change that he’s set up his own glazing business
As an architect, it was never Justin Bere’s ambition to set up a window company. But frustration at the standard of UK-manufactured windows, coupled with his admiration for German-made Bayer products, led him to do just that, and this summer Double Good Windows was born.
Not only will the company operate as the UK agent for the super-airtight Bayer range, it also aims to encourage UK manufacturers to produce similarly high-performing windows of their own.
“I realised that people’s expectations in the UK are much lower than they need to be,” says Bere.
“I saw the opportunity to help bring about a rapid change in the environmental performance of UK buildings through something quite simple — windows and doors.”
Bere’s quest for premium airtight windows began six years ago, when he conceived the design for his own house in Islington, north London. Determined to make it as energy-efficient as possible, he designed his own triple-glazed windows with double seals, taking inspiration from the Swedish-made windows he’d seen at the 1960s offices by YRM at Greystoke Place in central London.
Bere Admin August 31st, 2007
A video of the Grand Designs Magazine Awards evening, featuring Justin Bere, has now been posted on their website.
http://2.www.granddesignsmagazineawards.com/gdawards07/press_images.shtml
Bere Admin June 6th, 2007
bere:architects were last night presented with the Small House of the Year award for the Focus House project in
Read the article from Property on Sunday Continue Reading »