Cambridge to Careers: Author, artist, architectural designer 09 Jun 2026 London-based aspiring architect Sam Elbahja is driven by a passion for creating places that truly serve communities. Beyond her design work, she is... Read more
House of moveable wooden walls promising cheaper, greener alternative to ‘knocking through’, wins award 22 Jun 2023 Cambridge architects have won a public choice award at the London Design Biennale for a prototype home constructed with flexible wooden partition... Read more
COP must reverse rising pessimism over building sector decarbonisation 17 Nov 2022 Social media engagement with climate policy events is vital to reducing building emissions and ensuring environmental justice, research led by... Read more
The energy researcher who wants to build better to consume less 15 Sep 2021 Against a global backdrop of rising energy demands and finite resources, Rihab Khalid set out to understand how buildings can become more energy... Read more
Digital resurrection: bringing one of Italy's most important lost churches back to life 03 Aug 2020 Art historians have created a new app which allows users to roam around one of Florence’s oldest and most important churches, San Pier Maggiore, 240... Read more
Fixing India’s slum rehabilitation housing 13 Feb 2020 Millions of new houses being built for former slum-dwellers are failing their residents and fuelling unnecessary energy use. New research aims to... Read more
New book shows how to build a more flood resilient future 04 Feb 2020 We urgently need to adapt our built and natural environment to be more flood resilient in the face of climate change, a new book shows. Read more
Sowing seeds for timber skyscrapers can rewind the carbon footprint of the concrete industry 28 Jun 2019 The Centre for Natural Material Innovation exhibited their proposals for timber skyscrapers at the Royal Society’s Summer Science Exhibition. Read more
Innovative stadium will be the home of cricket in East Africa 27 Oct 2017 Cambridge architectural engineer is part of the team that has built Rwanda’s first international stadium Read more
Back to the future of skyscraper design 01 Mar 2017 Answers to the problem of crippling electricity use by skyscrapers and large public buildings could be ‘exhumed’ from ingenious but forgotten... Read more
‘Glue’ that makes plant cell walls strong could hold the key to wooden skyscrapers 21 Dec 2016 Molecules 10,000 times narrower than the width of a human hair could hold the key to making possible wooden skyscrapers and more energy-efficient... Read more
Bringing Berber empires into focus as contributors to Islamic culture 06 Jul 2016 The Almoravid and Almohad empires flourished in the western Mediterranean of the 11th and 12th centuries. Despite controlling vast tracts of land... Read more