Ty Llen: Wales' National Centre for Literature

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The competition for the design of a National Centre for Literature in Swansea, Wales has been won by Alsop and Stormer. The winning design is an energy efficient, steel and glass structure that will contain a bookshop, library, exhibition and catering facilities as well as a writers' centre. The building is designed to be a forum, symbolic of the importance of the word. The runner-up in the competition is a design by Stirling Wilford. This contrasts with the winner and is in the monumental tradition.

Buildings and facilities, Architecture, Competitions, Wales, Arts centers

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Skyscrapers for the future: the Malaysian architect Ken Yeang is as prolific and influential a writer and theoretician as he is a designer of innovative high-rise buildings

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Ken Yeang, an architect based in Kuala Lumpur, is active throughout the Far East, designing innovative skyscrapers. He supports his practice output with research and publications, as well as public-lecture appearances and exhibitions including those in New York, Berlin and London. His recent publications include Designing with Nature which is essentially his doctoral thesis from Cambridge, focusing on ecological design, and The Skyscraper Bioclimatically Considered.

Construction, Works, Skyscrapers, High rise buildings

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Learning in the real world: Architecture students at Newcastle University are learning by means of real design projects, with a real client, brief and site

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BA and BArch degree courses at Newcastle University School of Architecture increasingly allow students to confront the real requirements of a client. Students and clients are able to learn a lot about the exploration of the brief and the resulting range of alternative design solutions. The BA2 second-year design studio involves the design for an Orientation Centre and Roman Museum, and 'real projects' are incorporated in the BA3 school year.

Training

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