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...First published 30 years ago, Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics is the definitive comic book about comic books and is still hugely influential, he says....
...The house is a sizeable 3,630sq ft and was originally designed by the architect John Pardey for HAB Housing, the sustainability-focused developer founded by the television presenter Kevin McCloud....
...He didn’t just alternate films noirs (Thieves Like Us, The Long Goodbye) with comedies (Brewster McCloud, A Wedding). He cocktailed whole new blends....
...The court ruled in December, in a case brought by the Fire Brigades Union and by a group of judges led by Victoria McCloud, a High Court judge, that the government had discriminated against judges and firefighters...
...Now, McCloud believes the open-plan fad is fading....
...Kevin McCloud, the Grand Designs presenter, estimates that the typical cost of building your own home is £1,500-£2,000 per sq m — if you stick to your original design and specification....
...In my early twenties, I shared a flat in north London with two friends....
...Its first European investments will focus on London, co-founder Daniel Miller says....
...Last month, Kevin McCloud, of Channel 4’s Grand Designs, raised more than £1.5m through the crowdfunding website Crowdcube to expand Hab Housing, the development company he set up in 2007, into the so-called...
...Kevin McCloud Television presenter and founder of Hab Housing “The big change will be that we should be making places rather than just building houses....
...Last week, Lewisham Council announced plans to build up to 16 homes in a site in Ladywell, southeast London....
...The then-derelict building was bought on a whim in 2000 by a visiting London couple, Catherine Butler and Ahmed Sidki (“Kevin McCloud told us we were mad!” she says)....
...In 1986, when I bought my London flat, I re-painted and re-carpeted it throughout. Since then it’s had a few minor makeovers, some carried out by tenants, as the property has been rented since 1995....
...Cappellini, tel: +39 027-600 3889; www.cappellini.it Grand show With a host of familiar faces from British television such as Kevin McCloud, Matt James and Diarmuid Gavin curating and presenting workshops...
...In Britain there has also been a recent revision in attitudes thanks in part to the enthusiasm of Kevin McCloud, presenter of the Channel 4 television programme Grand Designs....
...It is the capacity to maximise natural light that is one of the attractions of the houses that Kevin McCloud explores in Grand Designs....
...Kevin McCloud shows how modernist design principles can improve a shack built from packing cases and corrugated iron....
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