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Opening from the 13th - 19th CUBE presents the Manchester School of Architecture 2007 degree show. Open from 12-5.30 Monday - Saturday come and see the work of some of the best young architects in the North West.

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CUBE is delighted to invite the public on an off-site tour of the prestigious new development by Urban Splash in association with Architecture Week 2007 . The New Islington development (left) in New East Manchester aims to provide an insight into unique community consultation resulting in highly contemporary sustainable designs. Architects included in the project include Ian Simpson and Will

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Based in the heart of Manchester Cube Gallery is delighted to invite any creative dicipline to submit work for CUBE’s first OPEN exhibition.Interested parties are asked to respond to the theme of the Urban Built Environment and we will be accepting proposals from Artists, Architects and Designers at any stage of their career. The exhibition runs from Tuesday 13.07.07 to Saturday 25.08.07.

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As part of Architecture week 2007 CUBE & Taylor Young will be developing an off-site project called CUBE’s Takeaway Garden. Devised by artist Jason Minsky (left) it will run during the whole period of Architecture week (June 19th – June 23th) exhibited not only at CUBE gallery but at the Reknew Rooms, Liverpool and Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester City Centre. The theme of Architecture week this

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Chelsea and Lauren's new blogspotChelsea and Lauren have spent the week out of school and at CUBE. They have created this great new blog about sustainability. check it out here at http://thefuturesenvironment.blogspot.com/

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WHAT ARE YOUR VIEWS ON 'SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTS'? SHOULD BUILDINGS BE RENOVATED BUT REMAIN SUBSTANTIALLY THE SAME OR IS THE RECONCEPTION OF THE INTERIOR SPACE SOMETHING YOU DISAPPROVE OF?SAVE holds that from a sustainable point of view, the retention and reuse of historic buildings is essential - it results in the retention of embodied energy, the retention of precious historic fabric, which

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HMRI (Housing Market Renewal Initiative) Pathfinder Schemes:The government’s plan to demolish terraced housing in the North and Midlands in order to make way for extensive redevelopment of deprived areas is a scheme which has met with widespread criticism. Although a combination of demolition, new build and renovations there is criticism that not enough renovation is included and that people have

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Earthship Program in Normandy FranceApril-May 2007This spring an experienced Earthship crew will be starting construction on Europe's first residential Earthship to have a building permit. The total project consists of enclosing the structural shell of the building; tire walls, roof beams, insulation, greenhouse framing, and glazing. The water and power systems will also be installed enabling the

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Green Politics? Gaining Popularity? Do they really mean it? We need them to!We need to move away from thinking that sustainability means sacrificing style, architecture and comfort. It's a shame that the majority of us will only 'Go Green' when its too late. Our profession (Architecture) should have the confidence to insist that our clients and contractors go down the more sustainable route.Its

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Come to the last day of Green Modernism and take home FREE helium balloons!CUBE showcases a range of exciting and cutting-edge projects by artists, designers and architects of national and international significance committed to sustainable research. Through Green Modernism, CUBE aims to create a diverse and visually stunning array of exhibitions housed within our four galleries that explore,

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Off-Centre by Lotte Karlsen (2006) - Currently exhibited as part of the Urban Growth installation in Green Modernism at CUBE Gallery.Lotte Karlsen's 'Off-Centre' range of tableware was developed through the 'GoGlobal: Thailand programme.' Under this umbrella, a three month research residency entitled 'Massclusivity' enabled her to collaborate with industry and craftspeople in the hill tribe

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www.paulweston.info.

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PRESS RELEASEMonday, April 23rd 2007CITY PLANNERS THINK THE HIVE IS THE BEES KNEESThe Manchester office of HKR Architects (HKR) has revealed its plans for Phase 1 of The Hive, Stevenson Square, an £11.5 million, 75,000 sq ft sustainable office building for Argent Group plc in the Northern Quarter, which has been granted planning permission by Manchester City Council. Aimed at a new office market

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What is an Earthship? The Earthship Defined: The Earthship is a completely independent globally oriented dwelling unit made from materials that are indigenous to the entire planet. The major structural building component of the Earthship is recycled automobile tires filled with compacted earth to form a rammed earth brick encased in steel belted rubber. This brick and the resulting bearing walls

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Front of House - the replaced window casements are mostly still unpainted, note the recycled oak gate but as yet untouched roof not a special house, the usual slightly ungraceful victorian semi, but with a full set of original windows including stained glass upper lights and 5 fireplaces.Back of House - for some reason side hung windows at the front, sliding sashes at the back, all existing

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Green City ProgrammeManchester City Councilwww.manchestergreencity.co.ukIn March 2005 Manchester City Council made a commitment to make Manchester the Greenest City in Britain. And not just green for the sake of ‘green’. The success of a city is based around a number of different things – how strong the economy is, the quality of life for residents, the quality, protection and enhancement of the

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Green Architecture Day 28th April 2007Pow Wow Eco Arts www.green-architecture.org.uk Our eco build journey:To coincide with the CUBE exhibition on examples of sustainable low impact living, we have organised our fourth conference of Green Architecture to be held at CUBE in the morning and then across to Manchester’s Centre for Sustainability (MERCI) in Ancoats for the afternoon sessions. What

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January 2005Re-roofing? There's no felt under the slates, no insulation except a bit of fluff on top of the attic ceiling, the 2 chimney stacks have got a slight lean on them. But we can't afford it. Also, when we were designing Homes for Change breathing walls were just starting to be built. The idea that you let the building breathe is interesting but in most old houses this breathing is done

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This is an example of a sustainable log cabin by Trevor Griffin.

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FAIRVIEW NEW HOMES: Queens Hospital The UK’s largest deployment of solar tiles Queens Hospital, Croydon, is a unique large scale, low carbon development from Fairview New Homes. A mixed-use site of 360 residential units, the high density housing project is designed to minimise carbon emissions in the built environment whilst maximising the use of available land.The development demonstrates the

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Those with eyes bigger than their thirst will be more than sorry when they're sprayed in the face with their own greed. Alesina Design's witty need/want glass physically illustrates the very serious issue of unbridled overconsumption. Link via core77.

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Claffey House is located on the western slopes of the Malvern Hills in an area of outstanding natural beauty.The site enjoys elevated panoramic views across the rolling Herefordshire landscape to the west and a British Iron Age hill fort to the south. The immediate site lies within Perrycroft Lodge Estate and includes a group of Voysey designed listed buildings originally associated with

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One very important aspect of the Earthship Concept is to be available to the masses. That is to say, it cannot be a multi-million dollar vessel that only the rich can afford. Everyone is entitled to voyage into the future. The concept, design, and actual method of manifestation of an Earthship must be developed with this in mind. In addition to interfacing with natural phenomena, this concept

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I don't like the word manifesto. It reeks of dogma and rules—two things I instinctually reject. I do love the way it puts things on the line, but I don't like lines, or groups. So a manifesto probably isn't for me. The other thing about manifestos is that they appear (or are written so as to appear) self-evident. This kind of a priori writing is easy, since you simply lay out what seems

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October 2004So we are going to convert a batch of separately let rooms back to a family house. The basement is full of the lives of former residents, the electrics are shot, several of the windows and a few areas of the floors. There's no damp proof course, no cavity, no felt in the roof, single glazing throughout, and the most arthritic boiler I have ever seen. But in return an almost complete

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Greg KeeffeChair, Bioclimatic Architecture LabsManchester School of ArchitectureManchester UK.g.keeffe@mmu.ac.ukIntroductionWhat is sustainable? That is the question of the age. One thing is certain, sustainable architecture will be a radical departure from today’s reactionist insulated boxes, dreamt up by physicists with only thermodynamics in mind or the wooden ‘hanzel and gretel’ earthships of

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June 2004We've go to move, 20 years in Hulme but it's not what it could've been. I've gone and created a perfect flat for 5 on the 3rd floor, 100m away from the lift and now there's 6 of us and one can't walk yet.So where do we go? Somewhere near a decent bit of park space, somewhere where you can walk to a decent load of shops so we don't have to use the car. Close enough to decent public

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Green Modern Meets Red Brick VictorianThis blog is a personal journey through our family's attempt to live as sustainably as we can practically manage. 'Practically' is the key word. My view is that there will be a paradigm shift in what this means over the next decade as the obligations facing the species become more and more apparent. So it's not life changing and we've got quite a lot to do

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Green Modernism 12 April – May 26 2007- An exhibition exploring the future of sustainable urban livingby the Centre for the Urban Built Environment, ManchesterThis spring CUBE in Manchester will play host to the exhibition “Green Modernism”, exploring the future of sustainable urban living. This exhibition arrives at a crucial time as the effects of climate change are felt with increasing force,

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