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Kieran Timberlake US architect has won a US competition to design the new US embassy in London, in Wandsworth. This is the first time an embassy has been built south of the river Thames, and locals in Wandsworth and somewhat bemused. The US embassy is moving from Grosvenor Square – a famous central London [...]

Interesting seminars coming up on how to be on good terms with the people working on your building or large DIY job.
Some people have the ‘cowboy builders‘ idea stuck in their head from watching TV scare programmes and so they start off badly with builders or contractors.
Things always go wrong and always cost [...]

This opens today, if you still want to go you can still register for free at
Register for EcoBuild 2010 >

Next year’s Ecobuild has a look at the effect of 3 years of Government legislation on building practice – the Code for Sustainable Homes, EPCs, and many others. These are for new building and also refurbishment and DIY refitting.
We are supposed to be headed for the zero carbon home by 2016 – that is [...]

New student competition to design build and use a zero carbon home (no emissions or balanced emissions).
The University of Nottingham’s student entry (with Saint-Gobain) will début at Ecobuild in March 2010 at Earls Court, London. (See other post). The student final is in Madrid later in the year.
This is of great interest to builders and [...]

World’s biggest event for sustainable green building, DIY, architecture, and living.
2 – 4 March 2010 at Earls Court London.
Ecobuild has:

100 free seminars
1000 suppliers’ stands
Conference with famous people
Speakers include Joan Ruddock, lots more
Cityscape & Ecobuild Installer – for builders, DIY fans and developers
Commentators at Ecobuild Arena
Sponsored by RIBA, BRE
Free registration for invitation >

This is a page to go with our one on camera tips & photography tips for taking pictures of buildings, architecture, urban scenes, country scenes etc.
In this we look at camera types, accessories, such as cases, tripods, some brands, and so on.
Visit Digital cameras – compact & DSLR – advice & tips >

We have a new page on photographing architecture, landscapes and buildings. Urban photography includes street scenes, buildings, roads, bridges, as well as landscape in the country.
Technique is most important as you need to think about every photograph you take. Composition and framing, lighting, context are examined with many other tips.
Visit the Building DIY photography [...]

This page has been on a while, we have had comments about some of the more obscure toys like Building Blasters, Bayco, Betta Bilder etc.

Lego is still very popular as a block building toy, with Duplo and Megabloks (or Megablox) for toys for tots. Lego has got into character Lego such as Star Wars Lego [...]

So many new pages… this one is about the various commercial vehicles as used by builders, traders, etc – from CDVs (car derived vans), 4×4, pickups to custom built lorries.
We run through the types of vans, truck, panel vans, pickups, 4×4, 4×4 trucks, lorry, etc. This will be the start of a section.
If you wondered [...]