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QS Supplies to launch new series of bathroom fans
15 August 2012: QS Supplies, the Leicester-based bathroom products retailer, is to launch a new series of bathroom fans at its web store. [more]


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ArcelorMittal Orbit is a 'new type of space', says delivery architect
15 June 2012: The Architects' Journal this week published its account of Ushida Findlay Architects' role in creating the ArcelorMittal Orbit, the remarkable observation tower over London. [more]


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An architectural canon - historic book collection seeks new owners
13 June 2012: A late architectural enthusiast's extensive library, built up over many years, is set to enthral a new generation of book lovers. [more]


The University of Leeds' Dr Mark Goddard in an urban 'bee paradise'

Keeping up with the Joneses harms Britain's bees
6 June 2012: A new study from the University of Leeds has revealed that poorer neighbourhoods are a bee paradise compared to richer suburban areas. [more]


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Website helps consumers beat rising fuel bills
29 October 2010: Thinkinsulation.com is urging home owners to urgently review the energy saving measures in their homes following the increase in British wholesale gas prices and Ofgem's startling prediction of a 13 per cent rise by spring 2011. [more]


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WI's charity drive aims to cook up interest
10 November 2008: An exclusive diamond-mounted cooker, which has been produced to celebrate the diamond anniversary of Denman College - the Women's Institute-owned Residential Adult Education College near Oxford - is to be raffled online for charity. [more]


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Innovative LED T8 tube light launched
7 November 2008: Taiwanese manufacturer and exporter GlacialTech Inc has announced the availability of T8 Light Emitting Diode (LED) light tubes, offering "a longer lasting and more energy efficient alternative to traditional fluorescent tubes". [more]


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Intelligent heating controller cuts fuel bills
21 September 2008: A Cambridgeshire company that usually specialises in 'clocking-on' technology and prison access systems has invented a controller that it says cuts 30 per cent or more of the fuel used by central heating systems. [more]


Previous competition winner

Search for innovative skyscraper launched
21 September 2008: The international architects' collaboration, eVolo, is inviting architects, engineers and designers to explore new ideas and concepts for vertical density as part of its 2009 Skyscraper Competition. [more]


FNC resourcer Priyanka Sarkar

Technical skills shortages addressed
22 July 2007: Tackling the growing shortage of suitably qualified technical, engineering, rail and IT personnel within the UK must still be a priority for the recruitment industry, engineering recruitment specialist NES has insisted. [more]


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Rotterdam skyline in the spotlight
19 July 2007: Rotterdam's famous skyline will be the focus of an architectural celebration this September. [more]


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Stourbridge glassmaking heritage celebrated
19 July 2007: The launch of a new website is responding to the growing demand for unique, stylish, modern handmade glass and interiors products, while celebrating a Midland town's glassmaking history. [more]


The Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh

Scotland celebrates cultural planning success
25 June 2007: A presentation of certificates has marked the first wave of participants successfully completing "TRANS:FORM", a course in cultural planning. [more]


First prize: New from Old

Winning silo design goes against the grain
5 June 2007: The 'Best Design Award' International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam Master Class has been awarded to Tsinghua University of Beijing. [more]


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Inspiring sheds sought
1 June 2007: Is your shed an inspiration? Is it unusual or extraordinary? Is it a place you enjoy - a space for a hobby, work or entertainment? [more]


Two of the 2006 winners - Phoenix Initiative - Coventry and Holyrood Urban Regeneration Project, Edinburgh

Good practice in regeneration sought
12 May 2007: The British Urban Regeneration Association (BURA) has launched its 2007 Awards for Best Practice in Regeneration. [more]


The Green Heart Partnership

Open Space project redefines the park
9 March 2007: More people on the planet now inhabit urban rather than rural areas, making our cities a key indicator of the health of our communities and our culture. So what role should the park of the future play in our increasingly urban existence? [more]


The winning design

Floorplan winners revealed
9 February 2007: Scion challenged design students everywhere to submit a complete design concept for its dealership showroom. The judging for the competition, entitled Floorplan, is complete, and the verdict is in. [more]


ASC Awards

Sustainable communities awards launched
10 December 2006: Have you recently consulted on a project you think represents best practice in creating better places to live and work? [more]


Tools of the Trade Awards

Best toolkits sought for new award scheme
10 December 2006: Have you produced a toolkit that you think could be useful to practitioners? [more]


Street Scene Challenge: The Monument. Visualisation of scheme and pavilion by bere:architects 2006

Historic London landmark revitalised
10 December 2006: A shimmering glass pavilion and new public square will appear next to the City of London's most historic landmark almost 350 years after it was first built to commemorate the Great Fire of London. [more]


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PVD Brass range offers solution to tarnishing
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Arts scheme to lift town's traffic stranglehold
3 December 2006: A pioneering scheme at Ashford in Kent will blur the boundaries between art and engineering to provide innovative solutions to transport and environment issues. [more]


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Bright Sparks awards ignite big ideas
3 December 2006: Bright Sparks is the main element of the research and development strand of Gunpowder Park's new, innovative and experimental programme of work devoted to arts and the environment. [more]


Rotterdam 2007 City of Architecture

Rotterdam unveils architecture programme
26 November 2006: Rotterdam will be celebrating its architectural culture in a grand way in 2007 under the title Rotterdam 2007 City of Architecture. [more]


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Architecture award winners announced
26 November 2006: The prize winners of the DETAIL Prize 2007 have now been announced. [more]


Art U Need

Thames Gateway art promotes regeneration
26 November 2006: A project called 'Art U Need: An Outdoor Revolution', curated by "renegade artist" Bob and Roberta Smith, is galvanising communities to regenerate neglected open spaces in the Thames Gateway. [more]


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Sapling.info redesign completed
26 November 2006: Sapling.info is now better organised and much faster, offering a better experience to its worldwide users. [more]


Aldermanbury Square

New public space for City
14 October 2006: Aldermanbury Square, a new public space for the City of London designed by Eric Parry Architects (EPA), will be opened to the public by the Lord Mayor of London on 21 November 2006. [more]


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New book captures town's 'remapping'
10 October 2006: A new book has just been published as the outcome of the innovative Remapping High Wycombe project by Cathy and John Rogers. [more]


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Interior designer launches 'confessions' blog
2 October 2006: A London-based interior designer is offering a unique insight into her work with the launch of a new blog. [more]


The Scion Floorplan competition

Showroom design competition launched
21 September 2006: A youth-oriented motor vehicle brand is looking to the world's future architectural and interior designers with the launch of a new design competition. [more]


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Campaign seeks halt to rollercoaster demolition
21 September 2006: SAVE Britain's Heritage has called for the preservation and re-use of a historic rollercoaster on Merseyside, where demolition work is already underway. [more]


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Holbeck 3D City Model featured in top magazine
21 September 2006: The industry leading CAD User magazine has recently featured a case study concerning Leeds-based AMT3D and its technology and services for architectural, planning, construction and regeneration professionals. [more]


The 2005 winning project, Isokon Apartments

Conservation Award shortlist revealed
15 September 2006: The Crown Estate has announced the shortlist for The Crown Estate Conservation Award 2006, part of the RIBA special awards. [more]


Newark Works in Bath (photograph courtesy of Save Britain's Heritage)

"Irreplaceable" 19th century factory threatened
15 September 2006: SAVE Britain's Heritage today called for the Newark Works on Lower Bristol Road in Bath to be immediately spot listed, and for plans for its demolition and replacement with a city academy, sponsored by James Dyson, to be shelved. [more]


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New online store promotes quality 3D modelling
12 September 2006: AECVizPRO have launched a new online store with products specifically aimed at the Architectural, Engineering and Construction (AEC), graphics and 3D modelling communities. [more]


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Architecture school's ecological focus
8 September 2006: An American school of architecture is teaching its students how to save the planet. [more]


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Stirling Prize shortlist 2006
24 August 2006: The six buildings shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize have now been unveiled, with the winner to be announced at the awards dinner on Saturday 14 October. [more]


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Paddington Span Four saved
1 August 2006: SAVE Britain's Heritage has welcomed Network Rail's decision, announced today, to drop its plans to demolish Span Four at Paddington Station and to invest in its restoration. [more]


Broughton Cricket Pavilion in Worcester (photograph courtesy of Save Britain's Heritage)

Historic cricket pavilion threatened
19 July 2006: National campaign group SAVE Britain's Heritage today joined cricket fans across the globe in the fight for the preservation of the 1878 Cricket Pavilion at the Broughton sports ground in Worcester. [more]


Pevsner Index CD-ROM

Updated Pevsner Index CD-ROM launched
9 July 2006: Fans of Pevsner's Buildings of England can now get a CD-ROM that indexes all 55 current volumes from this iconic series. [more]


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Sapling.info redesign underway
March 2006: As you may have noticed, Sapling.info is starting to look a little different - that's because we're refreshing the design of the site, as well as the underlying technology behind it. [more]


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Moving house
March 2006: Started in 1996 by Matthew Guy and Ron Strong, the Housing Resource Guide (housinguk.org) is now in the process of being incorporated into Sapling. [more]


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SAVE highlights threatened London buildings
16 June 2006: To coincide with the 2006 Architecture Biennale, SAVE Britain's Heritage has highlighted a number of threatened buildings in London that are at risk from what it calls a "trail of destruction". [more]


St Agnes Place, Vauxhall

St. Agnes Place under threat
December 2005: Lambeth Borough Council is threatening the imminent demolition twenty-two Victorian houses on St. Agnes Place, Vauxhall, London SE11, SAVE Britain's Heritage has told Sapling. [more]


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Climate change and clean energy discussed
November 2005: How can increasing policy, investor and consumer demands regarding climate change and clean energy be satisfied in new developments? [more]


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New book promotes "harmony and reconnection"
November 2005: A new book from Island Press is exploring the links between buildings, nature and people. [more]


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Home Interiors Directory launches
November 2005: Sapling's sister site - the Home Interiors Directory - has just launched at http://www.homeinteriorsdirectory.co.uk/. [more]


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Global news resource launched
September 2005: An ambitious project to provide a global information resource for architecture launches this week in London. [more]


Recycled woodchip

Benefits of recycled woodchip promoted
August 2005: Only three per cent of landscaping specifiers, purchasers and professionals are aware of the potential for recycled woodchip, to be used as a loose surfacing material, according to new research. [more]


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Biennale success - 2007 event planned
August 2005: The second International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam concluded successfully earlier this summer. [more]


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Cohousing is focus of new book
August 2005: Sustainable Community: Learning from the Cohousing Model' (Trafford Publishing, ISBN 1412049946) is a new book by Graham Meltzer. Loosely based on his PhD, it explores the link between sustainability and community. [more]


The countryside (photograph by Witek Burkiewicz)

Market town must make changes to survive
22 October 2004: People living in rural areas are still dependent on their market town, and the town is reliant on them, a new study shows. [more]


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Community investment health impact explored
11 October 2004: How can housing and regeneration have an impact on the health of the communities they serve? That was the question 76 delegates sought to examine at a People for Action seminar last week. [more]


Severalls

New use sought for arts and crafts hospital
October 2004: SAVE Britain's Heritage is working to preserve Severalls, a remarkable arts and crafts hospital complex with surrounding mature parkland near Colchester in Essex. [more]









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