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Mapungubwe National Park Interpretation Centre by Michael Ramage, Peter Rich and John Ochsendorf has been shortlisted for the Aga Kahn Award for Architecture

2 May 2013

The Mapungubwe Interpretive Centre in South Africa uses novel design and construction techniques to allow local materials and labour to be used in production. The project is developed for labour-intensive construction to enable poverty relief and skills transfer into the surrounding area. Form-finding based on...

Cambridge alumni dominate Designs of the Year 2013

16 April 2013

There were 17 nominations for the Architecture category of the London Design Museum's Designs of the Year 2013 . Of the five UK nominations, three involved former Cambridge students of the 1990s as follows: A Room For London, (Southbank Centre), UK An installation on the roof of the Queen Elizabeth Hall at Southbank Centre...

EcoHouse group video has been published in the Telegraph as part of the RBS video competition

28 March 2013

Click here to view the full Telegraph article and video.

'Robust Hospitals' film

26 March 2013

The research project 'Design and Delivery of Robust Hospital Environments in a Changing Climate' was funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the Department of Health (2009-2013). Led by Professor Alan Short, with researchers at Cambridge, Loughborough, Leeds and the Open University, the project...

Scroope Terrace in C20 magazine

18 March 2013

A brief essay on the 100-year history of the Department of Architecture, written by Alistair Fair, was published in the Spring 2013 issue of C20 Magazine, the regular publication of the Twentieth Century Society. The essay pays particular attention to the Department's 1959 extension, designed by Colin St John Wilson and...

RIBA Education grant funds placement in Beijing for MPhil student

28 February 2013

The RIBA Education Fund makes grants to students of architecture in the UK experiencing financial hardship. The fund was set up to ensure that the study of architecture remains financially accessible to all, ensuring access to those who would otherwise struggle with the costs. As MPhil student Dan Ladyman, a recipient of...

Scroope Terrace listed

21 January 2013

The Department of Culture, Media and Sport announced on 16 January that it has revised the list description for Scroope Terrace. The original terrace of 1839-64 had been listed as a building of special interest since 1972, along with the front railings, but the new list description adds the extension designed by Colin St...

Synergy funding for Cambridge Renaissance team

14 January 2013

A trio of Renaissance scholars from the University of Cambridge has been awarded over 2.3 million Euros by the European Research Council in order to launch a groundbreaking interdisciplinary project on ‘Domestic Devotions: The Place of Piety in the Italian Renaissance Home’. In opposition to the enduring stereotype of the...

Living Willow Bridge, Cow Hollow Wood, Waterbeach: An innovative low impact solution to bridge building

8 January 2013

Client The Woodland Trust, Ian Froggart Designers Smith and Wallwork, Simon Smith and Tristan Wallwork Cambridge University, Michael Ramage Builders Smith and Wallwork Cambridge University How do you stop a timber footbridge from decaying? Well, at Cow Hollow we have planted a bridge….our plans for a Living Willow Bridge...

First year students stage 'interventions' in Scroope Terrace

19 December 2012

First year students started the year by investigating the indigenous behaviour of the inhabitants of Scroope Terrace. They observed and analysed the tricks, ticks and old habits that characterise people’s daily use of the department’s objects and spaces. By closely analysing the most ordinary and mundane habits they...