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Hedgehog highways could become requirement for new buildings Lords amend planning bill to include protections for wild animals, including bird-safe glass and swift bricks

Our buildings...the entire built environment needs to work with nature not against it...its called common sense...and as well known as "biophilic design."

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Cura Design at Build It Live in Exeter

Cura Design will be giving advice at the Extensions Clinic this weekend in Exeter. Bring your drawings and ideas.

Looking forward towards giving a short talk along with some images and some thoughts at the Biophilia Summit 2025 for the Leadership by Nature segment on 25th September at 2:40.

TMH (@thememoryhole) Howard Zinn: War Solves Nothing

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Topsham, Devon. Cura Design took this from design to completion - 3 Bed house/conservation area built with custom bricks/traditional detailing/ground source heat pump/ solar panels/rainwater harvesting/bee bricks/EPC rating of A. Its carbon negative, it's actually removing 1.6tonnes per year.

Lula: A veto for the Amazon! I just signed a petition to stop Brazil's 'devastation bill' – a reckless law that opens the Amazon to destruction. Lula has the power to veto it – let's show him the world is watching. Join me and sh...

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Looking at this guardian article today and this, So called "built environment professionals" facilitate a lot of this stuffand have been for most of my life.

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MAHA's winning so fkin hard Talk about sleight of hand

Some great points about medical advances world wide and wellness from a perspective of whats happening in the USA

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Swifts’ decline: how can Britons help these remarkable birds? Campaigners are calling for compulsory ‘swift bricks’ in new homes to provide nesting sites

Swift bricks and bee bricks can easily be incorporated into masonry walls. Nature and biodiversity need to come first and not last in architecture and building.
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Construction week panel discussion on net zero. I think it’s the way buildings are designed that has to change….biodiversity and nature need to be considered first… not last.

I will be at Construction Week at the Excel Centre Thursday 8 May 2025
11:15 – 12:00 participating on a panel discussion for Net Zero - Hope to see you there! :

Designing for a Net Zero Future: Architectural Technology at the Forefront

This was from my recent trip to Japan to see family. Its the temple for the lost children and attached gardens in kamakura. There is a beautiul song by Adrian Freedman about the Jizo Bodhisatvia: adrianfreedman.bandcamp.com/track/jiz-so...

78. Matthew Barley on psychosis and healing through ayahuasca | Things Musicians Don't Talk About

Good thoughts about how at the core, music is about healing.
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Bill Burr is a national treasure 🎯!

"You journalists need to get your balls back"

Extension to a listed property in Buckinghamshire with beautiful flint wall that echoes the original home and corten roof. Oak frame extends elements of the original house. All glass bay windows with plants and utilizing bee bricks and bird boxes. PV and air source heat pump -powered by nature.

Former Golf Courses Are Going Wild Across the U.S. and beyond, fairways are becoming wildflower meadows — and communities are reaping the benefits.

Great story.
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Oh dear, Elon Musk learned how they do protests in France.

Director of Cura Design Robert Bedner will be speaking on the Happy Healthy Home Show with Odile Smith on 14 March 2025 at 4pm about biophilic design and current projects at Cura! Join via this link: lnkd.in/ehHJxVyN

The Times They Are A-Changin', by Frazey Ford track by Frazey Ford

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YouTube video by Berlinale - Berlin International Film Festival Honorary Golden Bear for Tilda Swinton | Acceptance Speech | Berlinale 2025

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Fish Are Thriving in the River Seine For years, the storied French waterway was nearly biologically dead. Now, it’s teeming with marine life once again, as it did centuries ago.

Great news!
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YouTube video by Rainer Scheurenbrand - Topic Compañeros

Bit of music...one of my favorites... www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpDx...

Sverre Fehn Portrait 1983 by Morten Krogsvolds. The light and shadows play a big part of this photo. I remember he once said said he preferred Black and White photography to colour for architectural photography...to look at the light...though the older I get... I think there is something in the darkness that as well that interested Prof. Fehn.

Sverre Fehn 1983 by Morten Krogvolds. I remember he didnt like colour architectural photography..it distracted..He liked Balck and White photos on overcast days so not too dramatic..as I get older..maybe something deeper in the shadows and darkness? ....a great photo in any case.

Bjork interview..."the damage is done.... how
do you live inside it you know so it is more like you know Tim Marton philosophy... it's like this the apocalypse has already happened so how are we going to survive in it. It is more about protecting biodiversity..https://tinyurl.com/5hy8khct

Cura Design endeavours to best serve the natural world not by retreating from it and minimizing our footprint, but by participating more fully as a new extension of ecology, protecting and enhancing biodiversity through integrating design and architectural technology with nature for our well-being.

Cura Design endeavours to best serve the natural world not by retreating from it and minimizing our footprint, but by participating more fully as a new extension of ecology, protecting and enhancing biodiversity through integrating design and architectural technology with nature for our well-being.

Infill project in London. Green roofs and green walls improve urban air quality air, reduce the need for heating and cooling, reduce stormwater runoff up to 90% and provide habitats for birds, bees, butterflies, and other insects. They also benefit the inhabitants mind body and spirit!

Window to stop decline of England’s nature closing fast, watchdog says Office for Environmental Protection calls for urgent action after finding government is falling short on most targets

Vital reading for the government with its current obsession with growth at all costs (growth of what and for whom is never spelt out). A commitment to restore nature was conspicuous by its absence from PM’s Plan for Change, launched last month - that urgently needs to change 👇

i am watching clips from the hegseth hearings and it is a goddamn insult
to this country that this chucklefuck was even nominated

Rope fixings replaced (along with the roof) every 50 years in Japanese farmhouse and persimmons in snow.

Hi Dusty. I’m in Hachioji Tokyo ! Are the eagles in a particular place?

Light at sunset coming through the walls of a farmhouse at the open air architecture museum outside of Tokyo.

YouTube video by Rainer Scheurenbrand - Topic Vento

Some music .... very biophilic....

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