All articles by Frances Marcellin

Upcycling on a grand scale

Can buildings be both carbon and cost-neutral? Lendanger Group founder and CEO Anders Lendager is determined to prove that carbon and cost-neutral buildings can and should exist, as Frances Marcellin found out.

Smartening the home: architects integrating smart home technology into designs

Smart home technology is gaining an increasing presence in our homes, with varying levels of design accompanying it. As work and lifestyles change, how will our future homes and vehicles adapt? Frances Marcellin looks at some of the pioneering projects that showcase these smart spaces of the future.

Power at the core: incorporating at-home energy generation and storage into builds

With home batteries now widely available, Frances Marcellin looks at the changing market, who is buying them, how homeowners can benefit, and the best ways for architects to incorporate such generation and storage systems into their projects.

Toronto’s Tree Tower

Power at the Core: incorporating at-home energy generation and storage into builds

With home batteries now widely available, Frances Marcellin looks at the changing market, who is buying them, how homeowners can benefit and the best ways for architects to incorporate such generation and storage systems into their projects.

Sustainable design: a Passiv retrofit

A 19th century mews house in Chelsea, UK, has recently become one of only a handful of PassivHaus properties in the country, thanks to a retrofit by Cadogan. Frances Marcellin speaks to the company to discover the challenges of such a retrofit and how the project was achieved