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Darwin Hall, Lichfield

Darwin Hall, Lichfield started on site in September 2009. This community centre is being funded through Section 106 contributions from…

Creative Partnerships In Construction

Dean Shaw, Associate at Bryant Priest Newman, will be Speaker at the forthcoming Forum for Tomorrow breakfast seminar to be…

The Power of 140 Characters

So, Dean writes a tongue-in-cheek TO DO list before dashing off for a few days holiday and leaves it for…

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Web2.0 and Architecture

Hello Digital is the annual Midlands Media festival and I was lucky enough to get a place at the main…

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Where Have All The Public Gone?

Walking round the newly opened Art gallery in the middle of West Bromwich on a cloudy September Sunday afternoon, I…

‘Smart Roads for Birmingham’

This recent headline in Autocar Magazine, describes an ingenious new traffic system that predicts problems and helps motorists avoid them….

Latest Pictures of Residential Project

Remember that post about the solid oak stair a few weeks back? Well this is the house in which the…

What Is Innovation?

A couple of things have sparked of a train of thought recently.  David Rogers of NESTA (the National Endowment for…

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Birmingham – the home of Creative Architecture?

Creative Republic is a lobbying group, set up by a number of like-minded folk in the West Midlands, who wanted…

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Social Media and Web2.0 in the Built Environment

I’ve recently been involved with pulling together the third Be2Camp “unconference” – this time it was Birmingham’s turn. The event…