All Education and healthcare articles – Page 95

  • News

    The Scottish enlightenment

    2008-03-20T00:00:00Z

    Cardinal Newman High School in Bellshill, near Glasgow, was lit up last week as part of North Lanarkshire council’s initiative to promote the area for regeneration and growth.

  • Features

    Howe Dell: Too cool for school?

    2008-03-20T00:00:00Z

    Healthcare and education The Howe Dell school and children’s centre project was commissioned by Hertfordshire council in order to test the latest eco-friendly systems, and as Chloë Stothart discovers, its most intriguing feature is its temperature control

  • Features

    Oh dear, oh dear

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    So far, Cabe’s school design review panel hasn’t been too impressed by the ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø Schools for the Future programme. Martin Spring looks at what it said about the first batch of schemes and asks Ken Shuttleworth, the chairman of the panel, for tips on getting full marks

  • Bradford eco city
    News

    Bradford to get £750m eco-city

    2008-03-13T13:19:00Z

    Plans launched at Mipim for zero-carbon student village

  • Albemarle Music Centre
    News

    Images: Holder Mathias music centre opens

    2008-03-12T12:10:00Z

    Albemarle Music Centre for school children opens in Hull as part of regeneration project

  • News

    Faithful + Gould green expert on schools - video

    2008-03-10T09:45:00Z

    Environmental costs expert Sean Lockie, a director at F+G, discuss his firm’s work on lowering the carbon footprint of school buildings

  • Bentley library
    News

    FAT wins contest to design community library

    2008-03-07T15:10:00Z

    Fashion Architecture Taste selected to design library in Bentley

  • Studio E Architects’ Sacred Heart Primary School in west London is built around a 120-year-old tree
    Features

    Cost model update: Small projects

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    Max Wilkes of Davis Langdon revisits industrial units, primary schools extensions and primary health care centres to investigate how recent changes to legislation, specifications and general price increases have affected building costs

  • News

    Fit for purpose

    2008-02-29T00:00:00Z

    Cambridge university’s department of architecture has spent £3m refurbishing its premises and developing a studio building alongside it.

  • News

    First class honours

    2008-02-29T00:00:00Z

    Faber Maunsell’s City Campus East for Northumbria University has scooped the new-build project prize at CIBSE’s Low Carbon Awards.

  • The 1,800m2 nanoscience centre at the University of Cambridge
    Features

    Cost model: Laboratories

    2008-02-22T00:00:00Z

    Laboratories are probably the most demanding buildings that it is possible to build. Here, Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon examines the factors that their designers have to take into account, from the need to attract world-class talent to energy efficiency

  • WDL: Photo credit Edward Cullinan Architects
    News

    Hoare Lea helps bring green angle to Warwick research lab

    2008-02-18T10:44:00Z

    Warwick Digital Laboratory aims for BREEAM excellence with exposed thermal mass, under floor heating and sedum roof

  • Sunand Prasad
    News

    Blow to schools as Whitehall design chief steps down

    2008-02-08T00:00:00Z

    Mukund Patel to leave school building unit, as report unveils plans to cut BSF bid costs by £250m

  • News

    Colleges for the Colonel

    2008-01-11T00:00:00Z

    ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø Design Partnership has been appointed to design seven universities in Libya.

  • News

    Sweet Valleys High

    2007-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Plans for a school in Newport, South Wales, were given the go-ahead this week.

  • Innovation Tower
    News

    Zaha Hadid reveals Hong Kong design school

    2007-12-12T15:36:00Z

    Hadid unveils 'Innovation Tower', her first permanent project in Hong Kong

  • News

    Oh, the humanities

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    The new humanities building at Queen Mary, University of London has been given planning permission.

  • News

    The Harlem shuffle

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Renzo Piano’s $7bn (£3.5bn) expansion of Columbia university was given the green light this week by New York’s department for city planning.

  • Features

    What to remember: Education facilities

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    The growth in construction of education facilities has thrown up a host of design and specification challenges. Peter Caplehorn of Scott Brownrigg takes a look at what can be done to address them

  • Capita Architecture's sustainable school competition entry
    News

    News in pictures: Capita’s wins green school ideas contest

    2007-12-03T14:03:00Z

    Firm’s Chameleon school wins Welsh School of Architecture award