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A group of schoolchildren from Coventry's Westwood Academy School have become the first members of the public to see a specially commissioned 3D Virtual reality model of Warwickshire's Lunt fort.

A unique tour through the Soviet century - via one woman's extraordinary collection of books, propaganda posters, ration coupons and even cigarette packets - is the focus of a new exhibition opening to the public on July 4.

A new research and discussion website curated by University of Melbourne researchers will spur national debate about women in architecture and gender equality in the workplace.

University of Melbourne students and members of the Pilbara region's Indigenous community will celebrate the opening of the community hall they designed and built together today.

For 10 days in June the studios, offices, lecture theatres, cupboards and every nook and cranny of Edinburgh College of Art are transformed into the city's biggest gallery space.

As Harper Memorial Library approaches its centennial, the University of Chicago is celebrating another major milestone for the historic space: the creation of the Arley D. Cathey Learning Center.

Plymouth University has been awarded more than one million pounds to lead an innovative project which will help people to understand how they use energy in their homes and buildings.

A new exhibition at the Department of Architecture aims to expose the forgotten history of the University's experimental post-war architecture: the 'other' Cambridge of raw, angular buildings and the ambition and innovation they embody.

: Carnegie Mellon Researchers Examine Economic Feasibility Of Using Direct Current Circuits To Power Lights in Commercial Buildings-Carnegie Mellon News - Carnegie Mellon University : Carnegie Mellon

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has been selected to lead a new joint U.S.-India research center focusing on energy efficiency technologies for buildings.

In its inaugural list of the top 50 most influential people for sustainability in the UK, Building Design magazine has listed three Cambridge academics.

To use the above map: Zoom in and out using the +/- buttons; click and drag to find a neighborhood; zoom in further to pinpoint a building lot. As you cursor touches the lot, a box will appear for that address showing estimated energy use (based on ZIP code-wide data), and a breakdown of how it's used.

With the aim of creating”the world’s best research and innovation environment", a winning architectural proposal for Lund Science Village has now been presented.

ANN ARBOR, Mich.-Within the "envelopes" of commercial and residential buildings rests the promise of major, new energy efficiencies in the built-environment, according to University of Michigan researchers.

A mysterious space underneath Manchester's Arndale shopping centre has been identified as the initial stages of a long forgotten underground railway through the city centre.

The Medieval art, architecture and history of Bristol Cathedral is the focus of a new book by researchers at the University of Bristol.

Planning application goes in for third phase of Northfield The University has submitted a planning application to build a third phase of the Northfield halls of residence on campus, providing 150 additional study bedrooms.

There are 21st century ideas in prospect for the 800 year old Leper Chapel in East Cambridge following a unique collaboration between Cambridge Past, Present and Future, and an Architecture student at the University of Cambridge.

The Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, the innovative 330,000-sqaure-foot public-private facility that opened just more than a year ago on the UW-Madison campus, has been named the 2012 Laboratory of the Year.

WASHINGTON, D.C.-University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning faculty and students, along with the U.S. Green Building Council reviewed areas of climate cha

Manchester was a stone's throw away from a brave new world of helipads, boulevards, tunnels and moving pavements, according to unrealised plans unearthed by researchers at The University of Manchester and Manchester School of Architecture.

Columbia faculty talk about the Foreclosed exhibit and the mission of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture.

A series of walking tours launched next week show how you can discover the maths hidden in our urban surroundings. Anyone can join the free tours of London and Oxford (book your place here ) which explore how cities - their buildings, roads, railways, sewers, and power systems - are all built on mathematical foundations.

University of Manchester mathematicians have developed the theory for a Harry Potter style 'cloaking' device which could protect buildings from earthquakes. William Parnell's team in the University's School of Mathematics have been working on the theory of invisibility cloaks which, until recently, have been merely the subject of science fiction.

Technology has advanced to the point where the condition of bridges, tunnels and buildings can be monitored in unprecedented detail.

One of the largest prefabricated straw bale buildings in Europe officially opened at The University of Nottingham today - Wednesday 8 February 2012.

National recommendations for using public money to build arts venues are only succeeding in enforcing a system that is already flawed, a new study concludes.

The way people think about life in the ancient Middle East is largely based on the pictures, paintings and images they see in books and museums.

Vishaan Chakrabarti, Carole Ann Fabian and Helena Durst talk about the Durst gift and the new Center for Urban Real Estate.

News in brief Boris Grot from the Parallel Systems Architecture Laboratory (PARSA) has been published in the last IEEE Micro's special issue; Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences. His paper "Kilo-NOC: A Heterogeneous Network-on-Chip Architecture for Scalability and Service Guarantees" has been written with collaborators from the University of Texas, NVIDIA and Carnegie Mellon University.

A new report from the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University today outlines its strategy to transform the UK's built environment.

Yale's Intelligent Buildings Project has received $200,000 from the Wells Fargo Foundation to support groundbreaking research on energy consumption in buildings.

New research launched by the University of Melbourne and the City of Melbourne will give buildings owners across Melbourne access to information that can help their buildings absorb less heat and stay cooler during hot days.

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, head of EPFL's Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory, is passionate about Minergie—a Swiss label for energy consumption in buildings and the most widely applied building energy standard in the world with almost 20,000 buildings.

A comprehensive exploration into Gothic cathedrals and their place in medieval society will be the focus of a series of Cambridge University Slade Lectures in Fine Art entitled The Gothic Cathedral: A New Heaven and a New Earth.

Clearing the Clouds: A Study of Emerging Workloads on Modern Hardware. The emergence of global-scale online services has galvanized scale-out software, characterized by splitting vast datasets and massive computation across many independent servers. In a paper appearing in ASPLOS 2012, Profs.

A new sunflower-inspired pattern increases concentrated solar efficiency. Just outside Seville, in the desert region of Andalucia, Spain, sits an oasis-like sight: a 100-meter-high pillar surrounded by rows of giant mirrors rippling outward.

In the seventh of a series of reports contributed by Cambridge researchers, architect Michael Ramage travels to South Africa to build strength out of weakness.