Northern Architecture - Promoting better places in the North East

Fifteen year-old Kylie is in trouble. Her mum is depressed, her dad spends all his time with the pigeons, her brother is involved with drugs. And now Kylie is pregnant. Set on the Byker Wall estate in Newcastle, Wall is a novel for teenagers in verse. As Kylie and her family struggle to hold their lives together, they tell their stories in their own words, painful testimonies in the language of text, graffiti, rap, rhyme, a hand-written note on a table, a message left on an answerphone.

Annual Review 2010/11

Inspire was set up in 2003 and was a partnership of three local authorities; Wansbeck District Council, Blyth Valley Borough Council and Northumberland County Council. In 2008 Inspire and Commissions North, then part of Arts Council England North East, began work in partnership and became Inspire Nothumberland.

In this book Jim Haggas illustrates a range of house types and flat accommodation which, he hopes, will stimulate a more thoughtful approach to our housing design, and render it more in keeping with the aspirations and expectations of the early twenty first century.

What does it mean to be Green? This book, a follow-up to the cult hit XS, is a celebration of idiosyncratic small buildings and asks what we mean by building 'Green' and how doing so enriches the world around us. The projects here are not only about building well, but about seeing well. They embrace the spectrum of small structures, from traditional nature huts and ornamental follies to the charmingly surreal. Building that look after people can also be the ones that look after the earth.