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Cambridge University has today announced the team of preferred architects for a first phase of its proposed development at North West Cambridge.

Five innovative architectural installations, designed by researchers at the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture, are being unveiled this week throughout London.

When Cambridge academic and writer Robert Macfarlane was asked to write a libretto for a performance celebrating the extraordinary landscape of Orford Ness, he turned his back on the world and let the voices of the landscape speak for themselves.

Leading UK and international academics believe a progressive research programme is vital to ensure that policies, such as the UK's newly launched Green Deal, are backed by evidence and data, and that systems are in place to monitor, evaluate and adapt such policies.

A group of schoolchildren from Coventry's Westwood Academy School have become the first members of the public to see a specially commissioned 3D Virtual reality model of Warwickshire's Lunt fort.

A unique tour through the Soviet century - via one woman's extraordinary collection of books, propaganda posters, ration coupons and even cigarette packets - is the focus of a new exhibition opening to the public on July 4.

For 10 days in June the studios, offices, lecture theatres, cupboards and every nook and cranny of Edinburgh College of Art are transformed into the city's biggest gallery space.

Plymouth University has been awarded more than one million pounds to lead an innovative project which will help people to understand how they use energy in their homes and buildings.

A new exhibition at the Department of Architecture aims to expose the forgotten history of the University's experimental post-war architecture: the 'other' Cambridge of raw, angular buildings and the ambition and innovation they embody.

In its inaugural list of the top 50 most influential people for sustainability in the UK, Building Design magazine has listed three Cambridge academics.

A mysterious space underneath Manchester's Arndale shopping centre has been identified as the initial stages of a long forgotten underground railway through the city centre.

The Medieval art, architecture and history of Bristol Cathedral is the focus of a new book by researchers at the University of Bristol.

Planning application goes in for third phase of Northfield The University has submitted a planning application to build a third phase of the Northfield halls of residence on campus, providing 150 additional study bedrooms.

There are 21st century ideas in prospect for the 800 year old Leper Chapel in East Cambridge following a unique collaboration between Cambridge Past, Present and Future, and an Architecture student at the University of Cambridge.

Manchester was a stone's throw away from a brave new world of helipads, boulevards, tunnels and moving pavements, according to unrealised plans unearthed by researchers at The University of Manchester and Manchester School of Architecture.

A series of walking tours launched next week show how you can discover the maths hidden in our urban surroundings. Anyone can join the free tours of London and Oxford (book your place here ) which explore how cities - their buildings, roads, railways, sewers, and power systems - are all built on mathematical foundations.

University of Manchester mathematicians have developed the theory for a Harry Potter style 'cloaking' device which could protect buildings from earthquakes. William Parnell's team in the University's School of Mathematics have been working on the theory of invisibility cloaks which, until recently, have been merely the subject of science fiction.

Technology has advanced to the point where the condition of bridges, tunnels and buildings can be monitored in unprecedented detail.

One of the largest prefabricated straw bale buildings in Europe officially opened at The University of Nottingham today - Wednesday 8 February 2012.

National recommendations for using public money to build arts venues are only succeeding in enforcing a system that is already flawed, a new study concludes.

A new report from the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University today outlines its strategy to transform the UK's built environment.

A comprehensive exploration into Gothic cathedrals and their place in medieval society will be the focus of a series of Cambridge University Slade Lectures in Fine Art entitled The Gothic Cathedral: A New Heaven and a New Earth.

In the seventh of a series of reports contributed by Cambridge researchers, architect Michael Ramage travels to South Africa to build strength out of weakness.

Works by Yoko Ono and Turner Prize nominee Karla Black feature in a new exhibition on the nature of beauty.

by Colin Smith An Imperial postgraduate has developed a suite of interactive tools to make museums and galleries more fun for children, including magic goggles, a Harry Potter style map and brushes that make sounds.

A Reader in the School of Architecture has taken part in the Research Councils UK (RCUK) 'Big Ideas for the Future' launch in the House of Commons. Carl Hopkins, Head of the Acoustics Research Unit , had his Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project on interactive performance for musicians with a hearing impairment included in the report, which is jointly published by Universities UK and RCUK.

The culture of the West Country in the Middle Ages and its role in shaping the identity of Medieval England is the focus of a new research project at the University of Bristol.

PA 358/10 The excavation of an ancient underwater city — dating back to 3500 BC — is to be the subject of a major new BBC Two television documentary. This ground breaking project will feature the research of underwater archaeologist Dr Jon Henderson from The University of Nottingham. The programme will use state-of-the-art computer graphics to show what pre-historic Pavlopetri — a submerged city lying off the coast of Greece — would have looked like and how its people lived.

'Colouring The Invisible' is a short-term installation by Julia Vogl, student at the UCL Slade School of Fine Art, to reflect the languages most commonly spoken by the UCL School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies? (SSEES) community.