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NewsAfrica and Australasia to share Square Kilometre Array
The €1.5bn (£1.2bn) SKA’s huge fields of antennas will sweep the sky for answers to the major outstanding questions in astronomy.
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PromotionsA quarter of affordable homes must be modern methods of construction
Housing associations looking to sign lucrative “strategic partnership” deals with Homes England to build large numbers of affordable homes will have to commit to using modern methods of construction to build out at least 25% of their pipeline.
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NewsLudwig Mies Van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe was born in Aachen, Germany in 1886. He worked in the family stone-carving business before he joined the office of Bruno Paul in Berlin. He entered the studio of Peter Behrens in 1908 and remained until 1912. He made major contributions to the architectural philosophies of the late 1920s and 1930s as artistic director of the Werkbund-sponsored Weissenhof project and as Director of the Bauhaus.
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NewsLe Corbusier
Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris was born in La Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland, 1887. Trained as an artist, he travelled extensively through Germany and the East. In Paris he studied under Auguste Perret and absorbed the cultural and artistic life of the city. During this period he developed a keen interest in the ...