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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.

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...

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...

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...

Hays Award for Best Student - MPhil in Environmental Design in Architecture (Option B) won by Tom Powell

21 November 2012

Friday 16 November 2012 Thomas Powell, a former graduate student of the Department of Architecture, received an award from Hays plc for Best Student - MPhil in Environmental Design in Architecture (Option B). Tom gave a presentation on his project which focuses on agricultural change and development in England’s smaller...

100 years of Research and Practice

8 November 2012

The ‘100 Years: Research and Practice’ Symposium held at the Gillespie Centre in Clare College on the 17 th September 2012 was organised to celebrate the Department of Architecture’s unique contribution to architectural research and its relationship with architectural practice on the occasion of the centenary of the school...

vPPR (former students Tatiana von Preussen, Catherine Pease and Jessica Reynolds) have been nominated for Young Architect of the Year Award 2012

1 November 2012

vPPR is one of five architects shortlisted for Autodesk YAYA 2012, together with Coffey Architects, Bell Phillips Architects, 00:/, Hayhurst & Co. The results will be announced on 5th December. The three directors of vPPR met at Cambridge during their undergraduate architecture degree in matriculating year 2000...

MPhil (RIBA Part 2) course graduate awarded RIBA Boyd Auger scholarship.

23 October 2012

Congratulations to Jo Ashbridge, a MPhil (RIBA Part 2) course graduate from the Department for being awarded this year's RIBA Boyd Auger scholarship. Her project is called 'The Role of Earth Architecture and Construction within a Disaster Risk Reduction Framework for Areas at Risk of Flooding Across Bangladesh'. For...