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Sherford Urban Extension receives government funding

A multi-million pound support package has helped bring forward the delivery of Sherford, in...

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Join our Graduate Fellowship, become part of a legacy (video)

We are now accepting applications for the two-year Graduate Fellowship, starting in July 2013...

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Galapagos team complete Eco-renovation

Our team in the Galapagos have successfully completed an ecologically sensitive renovation on...

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Building Skill in Summer

Our crafts and architecture Summer School teaches how traditional building repair techniques can be applied to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century.It’s an intensive three week course, one aimed at architects, planners, developers, builders and craftspeople.Through a series of lectures, workshops, drawing and building exercises and field ...

Freetown, Sierra Leone, Planning for growth

Freetown is the capital of Sierra Leone.

Like many cities in the developing world, it has experienced major population increases in recent years. With now
more than a million inhabitants, coupled with weak land-use planning and enforcement, Sierra Leone has suffered a series of collateral problems. These include degradation of natural resources for building materials,...

Coed Darcy, Neath Port Talbot, New Urban Village

In 1999 we were invited by the Welsh Development Agency to advise on the creation of a new ‘urban village’ on the site of a former BP oil refinery in South-West Wales. Located between Neath and Swansea, ‘Coed Darcy’ will be an entire new town, built on 1,300 acres of brownfield land.

The development of Coed Darcy is based on our principles of communities with a...

Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, Architecture

Famed for their biodiversity, the Galápagos Islands have become an increasingly popular tourist destination in recent years. The population has risen from 2,000 in 1959 to over 30,000 today.

With this comes the need to achieve a sustainable balance between population growth and economic sustainability, while at the same time conserving the Galápagos’ unique environment....

Atlanta, Georgia USA, Urban Regeneration

We held a workshop to investigate the possible regeneration of three neighbourhoods in Atlanta; Atlanta University Centre, Vine City and English Avenue. Vine City and English avenue have suffered the consequences of lack of investment, which has let to vacant land and abandoned buildings in various conditions, some of which have historic importance. Suburban migration has drained resources...

Educating with Oxford

We’ve teamed up with the University of Oxford’s department of Continuing Education to provide an MSc in Sustainable Development.

This post-graduate masters degree will provide you with intellectual stimulation, but is also strongly grounded in professional practice.

Our MSc provides meaningful and up-to-date learning, which we hope will enhance...

Educating the Next Generation

The Building Skill in Sustainable Urbanism is an established two-year Graduate Fellowship in Sustainable Architecture and Urbanism; carrying an MA in Sustainable Urbanism.

It is designed to address the global skills shortage in traditional urban design and green architecture, and aims to produce built environment professionals who

will evolve traditional...

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Building and Repairing Dry Stone Walls - Advanced

23/05/2013 - 24/05/2013

Talk: 'Heritage and Conflict: Culture at Risk'

29/05/2013 - 18:30

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