Bill dunster doesnt quite fit into the stereotype of architects being the dilettantes of the building industry. Far from flitting from one architectural interest to another, he single-mindedly ploughs a single furrow - truly sustainable zero-carbon residential and live-work buildings. So it comes as no surprise that Bill Dunster Architects has chosen to follow up its highly publicised BedZed development, completed in south London three years ago, with more of the same. That said, the practice is carrying Dunster's evangelical mission into two new areas. The first is the deliberately humdrum world of everyday housing construction. The goal here is to make the construction of homes designed to low-carbon "Zed standards" achievable at reasonable cost by ordinary building contractors and housebuilders. As Bill Dunster puts it: "We are trying to share our expertise with the wider industry." The second area is more exotic: the practice has just landed two sizable low-energy projects in China.
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