Low-carbon FAT

摘要

With the completion of FAT's 80-unit Cube in a Cube housing block in Middlesbrough next year, sustainable architecture will be decoupled once and for all from colourful windcowls and south-facing sunspaces. As part of the BioRegional family this project is also third generation BedZed. Think Las Vegas - or the Venturis' Learning From — and you'll be closer to the mark. Conceived in a time of plenty, Will Alsop's original 2004 masterplan for Middlesbrough docks did not lack ambition. Billed by developer BioRegional Quintain as the largest zero-carbon development in the UK, the current Studio Egret West masterplan includes 750 housing units, 18,500m2 of offices, and 2,300m2 of retail on a desolate site across the A66 from Middlesbrough's town centre.