A Royal home and fortress for over 900 years, Windsor Castle, the largest occupied castle in the world, remains a working palace today. The Queen uses the Castle both as a private home, where she usually spends the weekend, and as an official Royal residence at which she undertakes certain formal duties.
The new series of The Crown starts this week, in what promises to be one of the spiciest runs yet. The show, which covers the disintegration of the marriage of
Ahead of the Royal Wedding, Apartment 1 at Kensington Palace in London is in the process of being renovated for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to move into following their nuptials.
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The separated couple live in the home, next to Windsor Castle, sometimes with their daughters Beatrice and Eugenie and their families
Bagshot Park, where the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh live with children Lady Louise Windsor and James, Earl of Wessex, is seriously impressive
From Buckingham Palace to Windsor Castle, discover the ancient history of 14 great British royal buildings open to the public.
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Queen Elizabeth is one lucky lady that can say she resides in not one palace but several. Take a look at all her royal residences.
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Working in parallel with the Brighton Council, in 2001 URBED prepared a masterplan of the Brighton New England Quarter - the 8.75 hectare (21.6 acre) eastern boundary site of the Brighton rail station. The terraced site was divided east-west by an abandon rail line. The upper west terrace provided parking and open storage for the train station. The lower east portion was open storage, car dealerships and mostly vacant low-rise buildings. Following the success of the BedZED development in Surrey, BioRegional properties sought to develop a larger, more cost effective mixe-use project. They formed a permanent joint venture with Quintain Estates and Development PLC and a project specific joint venture with commercial housing developer Crest Nicholson. Between 1999 and 2009, this partnership, Crest Nicholson BioRegional Quintain LLP with Fielden Clegg Bradley Studios as the architects developed a 3,900 sq m (.96 acre) portion of the New England Quarter site. 1. Previous Site Plan The One Brighton site is identified as blocks E and F in the master plan drawing below. Plans for the green way are identified in this 2001 diagram. Brighton Council granted outline planning permission for this plan in 2002. The plan provided for 84 flats in two buildings between three and six stories tall. 2. New England Quarter master plan BioRegional successfully negotiated increased site density in exchange for enhanced sustainable features on the site. In 2007 Brighton Council approved the plan to construct 172 flats in 14,600 sq m. The development utilizes a wood chip bio-mass boiler to deliver hot water and district heating to residents. A photo-voltaic array provides 5% of the site's energy demands. The remaining power demands are met by a green energy agreement with a local utility. The development targeted a zero carbon strategy. At the time, local codes were mandating 40% better than standard energy efficiency and were not regulating carbon emissions. The development will meet BREEAM ‘excellent’ as well as BioRegional’s own ‘One Planet Living’ status. 3. Site plan and section diagram Residents on the site don't own a car, or if they do, they park it off site. The only parking is for disabled and car share programs. There are indoor secure bike storage rooms in each building and covered outdoor bike storage. Proximity to the train station and numerous bus stops make this arrangement completely feasible. The two most successful aspects of the design of the development are the garden allotments on the roof of Pullman and the community spaces throughout. The allotments are sought after and the waiting list proves it. They are well tended and use stored rainwater for irrigation. The lush green of the allotments lie in contrast to the brown roof atop Brighton Belle, but this is by design. The un-planted media will, over time, seed itself with native plant species. The community spaces are both indoor and outdoor spaces interspersed within and around the two buildings and a 1,000 sq m community center on the ground floor of Brighton Belle. The long double loaded hallways are punctuated by communal spaces at multiple locations per floor in each building, but they have yet to see much use. In my conversation with Peter the Green Caretaker, I related the community spaces to the brown roof. The right elements and conditions are there to promote growth, its just going to take a little time. 4.My sketch of Brighton Belle from green way Sources: Figure 1: BRIGHTON New England Quarter Design Statement, July 2001 by URBED with Chetwood Associates, and David Huskisson Associates (http://www.urbed.coop/journal_docs/Pages%20from%20Brighton%20Design%20Statement%20Sec%201-2.pdf) Figure 2: same as figure 1. Figure 3: Fielden Clegg Bradley Studios Figure 4: Dan Seng ink and watercolor sketch. Related Links: http://www.onebrighton.co.uk/index.aspx http://www.fcbstudios.com/projects.asp?s=7&ss=4&proj=1211 http://www.breeam.org/ EcoHomes - http://www.breeam.org/page.jsp?id=21
by Scott Mehl © Unofficial Royalty 2012 St. James’s Palace London Although no longer used as a residence of the Sovereign, St. James’s Palace is the senior and official palace of the B…
Experts working on a major development underneath the Old Royal Naval College in South London have discovered two rooms once used as part of the lavish Greenwich Palace.
"Some people might find it strange that he is moving in next door to his brother and sister in law, but the three of them get on brilliantly and love spending time together".
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Holyrood Palace (the Palace of Holyroodhouse) is a working royal residence in Scotland. Tour this royal residence when the royal family is not in residence!
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These royal palaces in London are worth discovering. From Buckingham Palace to St James's Palace, there are a lot of royal residences to see.
Of her entire portfolio, her prime properties are split between 4 "official residences" and 2 private residences passed down from her father.
Julie: There was even a jungle room that totally fogged up your glasses when you walked in. It had to have been a hundred degrees in there with 99.9%
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These royal palaces in London are worth discovering. From Buckingham Palace to St James's Palace, there are a lot of royal residences to see.
You know Buckingham Palace and maybe even Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Frogmore House, but what about the other 18 estates?
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Queen Elizabeth is one lucky lady that can say she resides in not one palace but several. Take a look at all her royal residences.
The splendour of the Royal Family's Sandringham estate has been captured on camera for the first time after the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh allowed a photographer behind the normally closed doors of their Victorian country house.
Bagshot Park, where the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh live with children Lady Louise Windsor and James, Earl of Wessex, is seriously impressive
