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Answers to the problem of crippling electricity use by skyscrapers and large public buildings could be 'exhumed' from ingenious but forgotten architectural designs of the 19th and early 20th century - according to a world authority on climate and building design.

Staff and students from the Welsh School of Architecture showcase novel design structure in Barcelona Staff and students from Cardiff University have taken to one of Europe's grandest cities to set-up a novel design installation with a twist.

UCL opened today the new central London home of the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture which will provide facilities for 1,000 staff and students and is the first major project to be completed in the university's programme to upgrade its Bloomsbury campus.

The Hunterian in the South - a new rotational display giving a flavour of the University of Glasgow's Hunterian collections - has been launched officially at the University's Crichton campus in Dumfries.

Cities exist in a state of constant flux: not always 'smart' and successful, they can be vulnerable, chaotic and seem on the edge of failure.

The cities of today are built with concrete and steel - but some Cambridge researchers think that the cities of the future need to go back to nature if they are to support an ever-expanding population, while keeping carbon emissions under control.

Today, we commence a month-long focus on the future of cities. To begin, Doug Crawford-Brown, Robert Mair and Koen Steemers describe the challenges our future cities will face and how mitigation depends on the innovations we create and put in place today.

London's first timber skyscraper could be a step closer to reality this week after researchers presented Mayor of London Boris Johnson with conceptual plans for an 80-storey, 300m high wooden building integrated within the Barbican. If London is going to survive it needs to increasingly densify. One way is taller buildings.

Kellogg College has now appointed the award-winning architect Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios to design a new, ultra-low energy building in the heart of the College's North Oxford grounds.

A new research project aims to develop the world's first flying robots capable of autonomously assessing and manufacturing building structures to help areas suffering from natural disasters.

The concept of moving your house without actually going anywhere isn't new — adaptive architecture has been around since the 1920s.

In episode three of the University of Liverpool's new podcast series, Dr Iain Jackson, from the School of Architecture, guides listeners through the north of India, to this first planned city post independence in 1947.

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 earlier.

Stories from The Road is a new story-telling project that casts light on life and work along Oxford Road.

Making skyscrapers safer by understanding phenomena such as 'travelling fires' are discussed by an Imperial researcher in an. Dr Guillermo Rein , from Imperial's Department of Mechanical Engineering, is a world-leading expert on the combustion of solid fuels in fires. The aim of his work is to reduce the impact of accidental fires and to protect people, their property, and the environment.

Three University of Manchester buildings have been shortlisted for the Greater Manchester Building of the Year award – making up half of the total shortlist.

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, and its future users are now raising funds to build it.

University welcomes approval of Masterplan proposal The University of Sussex's campus Masterplan has been given the go-ahead after the proposal's original rejection by Brighton & Hove City Council.

Energy efficient design means more energy for the national grid Experts from the Welsh School of Architecture have designed and built the UK's first purpose-built, low-cost energy smart house, capable of exporting more energy to the national electricity grid than it uses.

Work to develop a new, adaptive and future-proof mobile network architecture for 5G has now started after a consortium composed of 13 partners, including King's College London, and other leading indu

University awaits decision on masterplan appeal The University of Sussex has welcomed the opportunity provided by a public inquiry to confirm the merits of its masterplan for the modernisation and expansion of its Falmer campus.

Professor Matthew Flinders, Director of the Crick Centre for the Public Understanding of Politics at the University of Sheffield, comments on the repair bill facing Parliament and the opportunities for democracy.

University's listed building agreement is a first A new agreement signed this week will protect the University's unique 1960s listed buildings and streamline the planning process.

A new book by Timothy Mowl, Emeritus Professor at the University of Bristol, reveals secrets of the city's diverse architectural heritage, its maritime past and rich social history, describing twelve walks that showcase Bristol's fascinating built environment.

Cutting red tape - Sussex set to be the first university to sign a listed building agreement The University of Sussex is leading the way with a new agreement with Brighton & Hove City Council and

In his book, Gothic Wonder, Professor Paul Binski explores a period in which English art and architecture pushed the boundaries to produce some of Europe's most spectacular buildings and illuminated manuscripts.

A group of ancient timber-framed buildings in a North Shropshire village will be studied as part of a local history project led by Dr George Nash, Visiting Fellow at the University of Bristol, and villager Alastair Reid.

University cuts red tape with Listed Buildings Partnership Agreement The University of Sussex is making an agreement with Brighton & Hove City Council and English Heritage to protect the campus's unique 1960s listed buildings and streamline the planning process.