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# "Science Wire" gives access to latest science news from research centers and R&D companies.
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Architecture


Literature/Linguistics - Architecture
30.01.2012
Durst Gift Helps Launch New Center on Urban Real Estate
Vishaan Chakrabarti, Carole Ann Fabian and Helena Durst talk about the Durst gift and the new Center for Urban Real Estate.
Architecture - Environmental Sciences
24.01.2012
Intelligent Buildings Project receives gift from Wells Fargo Foundation
Yale's Intelligent Buildings Project has received $200,000 from the Wells Fargo Foundation to support groundbreaking research on energy consumption in buildings.
Architecture - Environmental Sciences
24.01.2012
White roofs to make for cooler Melbourne buildings
New research launched by the University of Melbourne and the City of Melbourne will give buildings owners across Melbourne access to information that can help their buildings absorb less heat and stay cooler during hot days.
Environmental Sciences - Architecture
18.01.2012
Giving concrete infrastructure a second life
Giving concrete infrastructure a second life
Rather than just fixing corroding concrete infrastructure, Professor Eugen Brühwiler and his team of engineers have shown that it can be improved using ultra-high performance fiber reinforced concrete.
Computer Science/Telecom - Architecture
18.01.2012
3 new IC Professors elevated to IEEE Fellows in 2012
3 new IC Professors elevated to IEEE Fellows in 2012
Babak Falsafi, Pascal Fua and Emre Telatar have been elevated to IEEE Fellows this year. This brings the number of IC professors who are IEEE Fellows to ten, a quarter of the faculty.
Architecture
12.01.2012
Clearing the Clouds.
Clearing the Clouds.
Clearing the Clouds: A Study of Emerging Workloads on Modern Hardware. The emergence of global-scale online services has galvanized scale-out software, characterized by splitting vast datasets and massive computation across many independent servers. In a paper appearing in ASPLOS 2012, Profs.
Architecture - Environmental Sciences
11.01.2012
Here comes the sun
A new sunflower-inspired pattern increases concentrated solar efficiency. Just outside Seville, in the desert region of Andalucia, Spain, sits an oasis-like sight: a 100-meter-high pillar surrounded by rows of giant mirrors rippling outward.
Architecture - Earth Sciences
28.12.2011
‘Extreme Sleepover #7’ – on the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River
‘Extreme Sleepover #7’ – on the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River
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.
Environmental Sciences - Architecture
14.12.2011
Young Architecture Champion wins Australia at Large Rhodes Scholarship
14 Dec 2011 Architecture graduate Angela Darby from the University of Melbourne has a passion for sustainability and design and hopes to bring these two disciplines together through her studies at Oxford University.
Architecture - Environmental Sciences
14.12.2011
Le Corbusier, a revised vision of the architect and his work
Le Corbusier, a revised vision of the architect and his work
Roberto Gargiani unveils a different vision of Switzerland's most famous architect - Le Corbusier.
Architecture
13.12.2011
Official Event - Architecture
30.11.2011
Winners announced in portable classrooms for the future comp
An international jury has deliberated over design ideas submitted to the Melbourne School of Design competition to revolutionise the humble re-locatable classroom, and the results are now in.
History/Philosophy - Architecture
02.10.2011
Earth Sciences - Architecture
15.09.2011
MIT: First prototype built from MIT’s effort to construct houses for $1,000 each
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Home prices in many of the world's most famous cities run to well over $1,000 per square foot.
Business/Economics - Architecture
15.08.2011
Remaking world order begins in Asia
Remaking world order begins in Asia
The global financial crisis and the creation of the Group of 20 (G20) have put Asian economies in the driver's seat of world economic affairs.