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Conceptual image of how the building would look as viewed from the River Thames

Timber skyscrapers could transform London’s skyline

08 Apr 2016

London’s first timber skyscraper could be a step closer to reality this week after researchers presented Mayor of London Boris Johnson with...

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Virtual Florence: religious art is ‘restored’ to its original setting

10 Mar 2016

A team of experts has pieced together the architectural context of two treasures of Renaissance art in the National Gallery collection. The research...

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King’s College Chapel: A History and Commentary by John Saltmarsh

King’s College Chapel: an architectural masterpiece and the man who told its story

16 Dec 2015

Five hundred years ago the masons working on one of the world’s most famous buildings completed the stonework of a chapel conceived some 70 years...

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Mathare, Nairobi

Building from the ground up: participatory design in Kenya’s oldest slum

05 Aug 2015

In a landmark project with UN-Habitat, a team of Cambridge researchers has designed a community centre in one of Kenya’s biggest and oldest slums...

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Escutcheon on King's College Chapel

Going to the dogs: the 500-year old greyhounds of King’s and in the fight against cancer

15 Jul 2015

The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, G is for...

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The Sedgwick Museum bears

Lord Byron and the bears beneath Cambridge

10 Jun 2015

The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, B is for...

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Heavenly matters, earthly delights

26 Jan 2015

In his book, Gothic Wonder, Professor Paul Binski explores a period in which English art and architecture pushed the boundaries to produce some of...

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Cedric Price, in a portrait which appears in the exhibition.

Anti-building for the future: The world of Cedric Price

10 Nov 2014

The life and work of Cedric Price, the unconventional and visionary architect best-known for buildings which never saw the light of day, is being...

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This area will be destroyed...

How people power saved Bloomsbury from destruction

17 Jul 2014

The story of how ‘one of the last villages in London’ was saved from demolition to make way for the British Library is the subject of new research...

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Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Paris

Buildings for books: the complete story of the library

13 Nov 2013

For 20 years architectural historian Dr James Campbell waited for someone to write a definitive book about libraries. When he decided to write one...

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'Belvedere' proposal by William Kent, 1739

Putting our House in order

25 Oct 2013

With the Houses of Parliament requiring costly renovation, new research suggests we may have something to learn from plans in the 1730s to rebuild...

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Cambridge University Library

Cambridge University Library launches design competition

25 Jul 2013

A landscape design competition to transform the space surrounding Cambridge University Library has been launched.

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