Come join us at The Cambridge Room to discuss the proposed redevelopment of the Beehive Centre, its controversies, and how it affects you.

You are warmly invited to join our new pop-up talk with the guest speaker Simon Henley on 27^th November, at 5:30pm at Lecture Room 1, Department of Architecture. As part of the Cambridge Room cultural programme, this event is free and open to the public.

The Kite is a neighbourhood in Cambridge that has an extraordinary heritage of collaboration, creativity, and resilience. It’s inspirational - that’s why we’re unearthing it. 

Curious? You’re invited to learn more and come and share YOUR story! It could be about centuries or decades past - or even just last week! It’s all important.

We are working with University of Cambridge Museums to showcase their Adapt! Pop-Up Museum. Come and chat to us about the environment and share what you think in our interactive display. 

The Kite is a neighbourhood in Cambridge that has an extraordinary heritage of collaboration, creativity, and resilience. It’s inspirational - that’s why we’re unearthing it. 

Curious? You’re invited to learn more and come and share YOUR story! It could be about centuries or decades past - or even just last week! It’s all important.

Join Annie Naughton and her panel of expert speakers to find out more about the  possibilities for retrofitting our historic homes.

Open ECO homes online tour: Blending excellent design with a sustainable lifestyle, the building and interior were guided by environmental considerations rather than aesthetic concerns. This approach allowed us to craft a visually appealing and calming home, incorporating numerous eco-friendly choices and technologies.

Open ECO homes online tour: We moved to Dry Drayton from London with the intention of it being a stepping stone move. Thirty years later, now happily rooted in the community, we wanted to create a home that would give us more space, reduce our impact on the environment and support us through our retirement.

You don’t need to spend a fortune to improve the energy efficiency of your home. Small and simple changes can have a big impact on reducing draughts and mould and ensuring your home stays comfortable and cheaper to run.

The Kite is a neighbourhood in Cambridge that has an extraordinary heritage of collaboration, creativity, and resilience. It’s inspirational - that’s why we’re unearthing it. 

Curious? You’re invited to learn more and come and share YOUR story! It could be about centuries or decades past - or even just last week! It’s all important.

Open ECO homes online tour: My partner and I purchased our 1930s house in 2016 to live in with our two children. Our dream was to live in a comfortable, warm, well ventilated, healthy home with lower bills and eventually get off fossil fuels (gas).

Fiona Hughes from Green Heat Coop will be joined by a panel of expert speakers to help you maximise the efficiency and savings benefits from your heat pump.

Open ECO homes online tour: We approached our home's renovation with the same circular sustainable principles we apply to our lives. Choosing natural, breathable materials not only allows the majority of the building to return to the earth naturally at the end of its lifecycle but also ensures a warm and healthy living space.

The Kite is a neighbourhood in Cambridge that has an extraordinary heritage of collaboration, creativity, and resilience. It’s inspirational - that’s why we’re unearthing it. 

Curious? You’re invited to learn more and come and share YOUR story! It could be about centuries or decades past - or even just last week! It’s all important.

Open ECO home in-person tour: drawing from my first hand experience of retrofitting with limited market resources and self-educating on energy efficiency, I believe I can assist others embarking on similar home retrofitting journeys with little or no prior knowledge in the field."

Open ECO home in-person tour: "We previously had solar panels which worked well and paid for themselves eventually, so we wanted to see what was possible with a much more modern and better insulated house."

Hosted at Metal Peterborough, a day of creative and collaborative exploration into radical, queer and alternative histories of the fens, led by new fen arts collective. Fen Fest is organised by a collective group of creatives who are working together to understand the radical histories, traditions and cultures of the Fens.

Online tour: 1960's home, including: new layouts to both floors of the house to facilitate greater accessibility for our disabilities, while retaining much cherished characteristics of the original house. Now all electric and off gas with Solar PV, battery storage, Air Source Heat Pump and EV charging with Vehicle to Grid capability.

Open ECO homes: Bean Beanland of the Heat Pump Federation will be talking about Heat Pumps and their role in decarbonising homes, the myths surrounding them, the money & the implications of current government policy.

The Cambridge Association of Architects is delighted to hold the Annual Reception at The Roost, Jesus College on the Thursday 26th September 2024 from 6.00pm. Please come to the West Court Entrance on Jesus Lane.

How do you imagine the Museum might look in the future? How could extending the Museum change how the Fitzwilliam looks and how it displays its collection? Explore a selection of student models and films designed in answer to this question at this pop-up event.

Drop-in, Free, All Welcome.

Join RIBA East for a seminar on council-led housing in Cambridge and Hackney; learn, discuss, and connect with experts and fellow community members.

The workshop provided an opportunity for students to collaborate with the CAA and Chesterton pupils, a process in which they have learned, through a hands-on experience, possible ways to engage others’.

A 3-part session exploring the past, present & future of community power in schooling & urban design with Henry Morris and Ruchit Purohit.