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If a heat wave hit Melbourne and the power blacked out, most of the city's apartment buildings would simply bake as air conditioners failed and indoor temperatures exceeded international health standards, according to a new  study  by the University of Melbourne. Researchers from the Melbourne School of Design have now called on Australia to adopt building standards to protect occupants against heat stress.

Could recovered materials play a key role in tomorrow's civil engineering' EPFL researchers set out to answer that question by creating an easily demountable pavilion out of more than 200 reclaimed skis.

Could recovered materials play a key role in tomorrow's civil engineering' EPFL researchers set out to answer that question by creating an easily demountable pavilion out of more than 200 reclaimed skis.

Answers to the problem of crippling electricity use by skyscrapers and large public buildings could be 'exhumed' from ingenious but forgotten architectural designs of the 19th and early 20th century - according to a world authority on climate and building design.

Campus news The Research Neutron Source FRM II of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) is a magnet for researchers from a wide array of disciplines.

The Copenhagen International School's new building is covered by 12,000 colored solar panels based on a technology developed at EPFL.

Staff and students from the Welsh School of Architecture showcase novel design structure in Barcelona Staff and students from Cardiff University have taken to one of Europe's grandest cities to set-up a novel design installation with a twist.

Noh Wins NSF CAREER Grant To Study Sensors in Smart Buildings By Adam Dove Carnegie Mellon University Civil and Environmental Engineering Assistant Professor Hae Young Noh can tell a lot about a person by their walk.

Nature does amazing things with limited design materials. Grass, for example, can support its own weight, resist strong wind loads, and recover after being compressed.

As buildings evolve from energy consumers to energy producers, architecture is seeing a major paradigm shift, with building renovations becoming a real challenge.

Leading Indigenous architects will come together for a free public lecture in Brisbane, discussing state-of-the-art architecture designed for or by Indigenous people around the world.

Britain's dazzling Houses of Parliament building, constructed from 1840 until 1870, is an international icon.

Copper plate prints of four architectural plans by  Ronald Rael , a UC Berkeley, associate professor of architecture, and his partner,  Virginia San Fratello , are featured in the New York Museum of Modern Art exhibit,  'Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter.

Slightly raising indoor temperatures and equipping office workers with smart fans saves significantly on overall office building energy costs while maintaining employee comfort, according to new research that could guide the design and operation of new and existing office buildings in the world's tropical regions.

Slightly raising indoor temperatures and equipping office workers with smart fans saves significantly on overall office building energy costs while maintaining employee comfort, according to new rese

From the Saint Loup Chapel in Pompaples to the soon-to-be-completed Vidy Theatre Pavilion in Lausanne, the lab run by Yves Weinand is developing new innovations based on an age-old material: wood.

UCL opened today the new central London home of the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture which will provide facilities for 1,000 staff and students and is the first major project to be completed in the university's programme to upgrade its Bloomsbury campus.

Maria Cristina Munari Probst created a database of examples of solar panels that either fit or do not fit harmoniously in their urban setting.

Two University of Queensland academics have been honoured for their achievements in the humanities in Australia.

The Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning has received a gift of $1 million from Creative Futures, supported by Professor Daryl Le Grew and alumnus Dr Robert Treseder.

The University of Melbourne has received a gift of $1 million from alumnus and educator Dr Robert Treseder.

Wood is a trendy material - and not only in the music scene (thanks to the 257ers) but also in the construction sector.

Composer Patrick Braga '17 conducts music for 'Eyes That Do Not See? during a rehearsal in Lincoln Hall with musicians Colin Barber '17 and Chris Worden '19.

When Goldwater Memorial Hospital closed at the end of 2013 to make way for the new Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island in New York City, architect-turned-photographer Charles Giraudet began a race against time.

The Hunterian in the South - a new rotational display giving a flavour of the University of Glasgow's Hunterian collections - has been launched officially at the University's Crichton campus in Dumfries.

Carnegie Mellon University's Environmental Health and Safety Department is proactively testing the drinking water in all campus buildings built before 1986 for elevated levels of lead. Lead pipes and solder were widely used in plumbing fixtures before they were prohibited in 1986. CMU is taking the precautionary step following recent tests by the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority that found elevated lead levels in 17 of 100 randomly selected residential properties in Pittsburgh.

"THE BEACON," an installation designed by collaborators Jenny Sabin and Peter Lloyd Jones, features drone technology, responsive textiles and advanced digital fabrication.

When: 7-23 October Where: Dulux Gallery, ground floor, Melbourne School of Design , University of Melboure Entry: Free A full-scale replica of Walter Burley Griffin and Marian Mahony Griffin's cuttin

Most of us have looked at an ugly building and thought: I could do better than that. Brent Ryan turned that idea into a career.

More than $4 million awarded for projects on high-tech insulation, HVAC control, and moisture resistance that could save billions in energy costs.

In August 1966, Vincent Lingiari, a Gurindji leader, led a walk-off of 200 Aboriginal stockmen, house servants, and their families from Wave Hill as a protest against the work and pay conditions.

A breath of fresh air: The Institute of Architecture Technology of TU Graz is working on architectural solutions for better room climate in subtropical and tropical regions.

Professor Julie Willis has been appointed the new Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne.

Michael Moran The building housing the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia was designed by UCLA alumna Billie Tsien and her husband, Tod Williams.

Cities can be confusing, messy places. Traffic jams make it hard to get around. Public transit can be puzzling.

Cities exist in a state of constant flux: not always 'smart' and successful, they can be vulnerable, chaotic and seem on the edge of failure.

UCLA Greg Lynn designed the Center for Fulfillment, Knowledge and Innovation for the site of a milelong abandoned building that once housed a bustling Packard automobile factory in Detroit.

The cities of today are built with concrete and steel - but some Cambridge researchers think that the cities of the future need to go back to nature if they are to support an ever-expanding population, while keeping carbon emissions under control.

By any measure, Tokyo's plan for reducing greenhouse gas emission and boosting energy saving has been a success.

Two architecture students from TU Graz developed a 23-m2-large mobile space made of cardboard. They reveal in the interview the doubts they faced about developing the prototype for refugee accommodation.

13. The pavilion combines the outcome of twelve first-year architecture design studios into a single three-dimensional exploration of space.