Within architecture theres discrimination in thinking thats something men are better at than women. Actually a lot of women are very good at it, but whether theyre given the opportunity is a different question."

On average male architects can earn between 37-42,000 while women earn 27-32,000 a year, the study showed.

The gender disparity begins at university, according to the study, where more than half of architecture students had experienced gender discrimination.

While 44 per cent of women win places to study the subject at university, only 34 per cent qualify.

Ms Murray said schools and universities should teach pupils about women architects and there need to be more female role models.

At the moment the only prominent female architect is Dame Zaha Hadid, who designed the London Aquatic Centre for the London 2012 Olympics, Ms Murray said.

Apart from Zaha all famous architects are men. I think a greater awareness of the work of women architects needs to be taught in schools.

When most people think of architecture, they think of an old man behind a desk and that needs to change," she said.

The study also found 88 per cent of women think having children puts them at a disadvantage in architecture.

One respondent said she had hidden the fact she was a mother from her employer, for fear it would hinder her career.

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Six-month-old baby Elai smiles and kicks his little feet when people speak. "The doctors say it's the sick children who are most friendly," Elai's mother Tatyana Fornoff says, despite the constant prodding and pricking of needles.

Elai has lived in the intensive care unit in Cologne's Children's Hospital all his life. After an emergency C-section, Elai was born four weeks premature. His esophagus wasn't formed, and today he breathes, wheezing rhythmically, through a valve that protrudes from his throat. Within days of Elai's birth last July, the Fornoff family had packed its bags and moved into the Ronald McDonald House in Cologne.

Tatyana Fornoff, 28, said the Ronald McDonald House literally helped keep her family together

"When you're in a situation where you think your own child might die, or you don't know how to keep going, then a place like this is truly a second home," Fornoff says. "You can't imagine how much a house like this relieves some of the burden by offering a place to shower, to do laundry, to rest."

Tatyana cradles the baby from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. every day, now and then placing him in his bassinet, to which he is connected to by a series to tubes that drain the fluid from his esophagus.

Her "second home" at the Ronald McDonald House in Cologne is one of 19 such facilities in Germany that offer families with sick children on-site accommodation at the hospitals where their children are being treated. Each of the 19 houses has its own character: Cologne's looks like a fortress, nicknamed the "castle of protection."

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Manfred Welzel, right, chairman of the Children's Aid Foundation, visits the Hamburg exhibition

Families like the Fornoffs are precisely who the Kinderhilfe Stiftung, McDonald's Children's Aid Foundation, had in mind when it teamed up with AIT ArchitekturSalon in Hamburg. The goal was to design a Ronald McDonald House for the Hamburg district of Altona with an emphasis on how aesthetics foster healing.

"As we know from various projects in the healthcare sector, it is specifically the feeling of well-being and a pleasant atmosphere that have an influence on the healing process and the mental state of patients," said Thomas Willemeit of German architecture firm GRAFT, which helped organize the call for blueprints. "Especially in medical care, the atmospheric quality is usually underrated."

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Northside residents, community leaders and architects met Friday to discuss the redevelopment of the Northside at Green Street Baptist Church. A final session is scheduled for 10 a.m. to noon Saturday at the church located at 466 Brawley St.

Spartanburg's Northside will transition into an area with plenty of green space, opportunities for recreation with tree-lined streets that border attractive houses and apartments with retail, restaurants and a cafe in the mix, according to architectural sketches.

Architects from Spartanburg-based McMillan Pazdan Smith Architecture partnered with the Dallas firm of JHP Architecture to illustrate ideas received during two days of public input sessions designed to educate people on the assets and challenges of the Northside and more importantly, what the new Northside will look like.

Northside residents sat alongside nonprofit leaders, college presidents and planners Thursday and Friday at the Green Street Baptist Church to get a true picture of the 400 acres that largely comprise the area long plagued by high-crime and poverty.

The Northside has plenty of challenges restricted transportation for many residents, low-income and little access to fresh food, but there are already solutions in place to combat those. Construction of a Healthy Food Hub, which will include a cafe, gardens, community meeting space and a culinary program, is underway. Colleges are committed to bringing technology and classes to the neighborhood.

The charrettes were part of the $300,000 federal planning grant in preparation of applying for a $30 million implementation grant this year. The grants will be awarded next year.

Atlanta-based Columbia Residential is a nationally recognized developer of attractive, affordable housing across the country. Its founder and chief executive officer, Noel Khalil, praised the city for its vision and acquisition of 160 parcels during the past two years.

Property acquisition is oftentimes cumbersome and complicated, but the work of the city and Northside Development Corp., the nonprofit formed by the city and led by former mayor Bill Barnet, will streamline and simplify future construction and planning, Khalil said.

"My opinion is that Spartanburg is an extremely unique community," Khalil said after an afternoon charrette Friday. "The vision, and more importantly, the work that has already been done, is a very bold initiative."

Khalil said in his years of work in community development in more than 20 cities across the nation, Spartanburg's effort is the most "well-planned and orchestrated."

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Hall County has found a place to relocate judges and courthouse staff while a costly courthouse renovation is underway.

On Tuesday, county supervisors will vote on whether to buy the former Workforce Development building at 1306 W. Third St. The county used to co-own that building but now wants to buy it back from the city of Grand Island for $600,000.

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Newswise MANHATTAN, KAN. -- Researchers and students at Kansas State University are thinking in three dimensions.

University engineers and designers are developing ideas from concept to prototype using some of the latest 3-D printers. The layer by layer printing process has helped professors and students explore new possibilities for creating prototypes, formula car parts, models, tools, and -- on a less conventional note -- eyeglasses, custom-made clothes and intricately designed puzzles.

In the College of Architecture, Planning & Design, two professors -- Dustin Headley, assistant professor of interior architecture and product design, and Nathan Howe, assistant professor of architecture -- are using 3-D printers to help students explore the limits of gravity and to challenge themselves as designers.

The college has two 3-D printers: a uPrint that uses strings of ABS plastic and a Form1 printer that uses liquid resin and lasers. Students in Howe's architecture classes have 3-D printed model pieces for projects while students in Headley's product design classes have printed tiles and product prototypes.

"The printers get students to operate at a scale where they can actually touch things," Headley said. "If they aren't engaging in that, then everything becomes kind of pie in the sky. When they are forced to make things more reasonable, students discover holes in the design that the computer fails to highlight in its gravity free environment."

The architects also say that using 3-D printers helps students learn important job-related skills and makes them more marketable.

"In architecture, we are designing in an age where it is possible to build more complex forms," Howe said. "However if you can design it in a computer, it doesn't necessarily make it right. The best tools the students have are their eyes. 3-D printers allow the students to make complex forms physical, allowing them to get a lot more information out of their design process. The printer provides a mechanism to strive for more complexity that can still be rationalized."

As the college obtains more 3-D printers, it becomes quicker and more cost-effective for students to use the technology. Headley and Howe already plan to integrate the printers in spring semester classes. Headley plans to have students use the Xbox Kinect to create body scans and design and print their own custom-fit apparel or action figures of themselves. He also plans to have students in product design courses print children's toys.

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Car Park House is based in Echo Park, Los Angeles (Photo: Steve King)

Los Angeles-based architecture and design studio Anonymous Architects has completed an unusual property which gives primacy to the occupant's automobile. Like the firm's Big and Small House, Car Park House is again a fine example of using a modest-sized plot to its fullest, but in this case Anonymous Architects took the step of installing a rooftop-based car port.

Measuring 130 sq m (1,405 sq ft) and located in Echo Park, Los Angeles, Car Park House differs from other car-centric properties we've covered, such as the Autofamily House or Porsche Design Tower in that its design derives from practical concerns. The local building code requires that new homes feature at least two vehicle parking spaces, and the site chosen for construction is on a steep hillside.

The single-level dwelling was built atop a concrete pile foundation, and Anonymous Architects reckons these lend the impression that the home is "floating" above the hillside. Access to Car Park House is gained via the bridge, and steps lead from the car port into the home proper. Inside, there's three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a kitchen and dining area, and a lounge.

The rooftop parking area is also usable as a deck space, and the property boasts views of the nearby San Gabriel Mountains.

Car Park House was completed in August, 2013.

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Kingspan Solar Thermal and Commercial Rainwater Harvesting systems help Architects, Engineers and Designers boost LEED points at 2014 AHR Expo

JESSUP, Maryland The U.S. Green Building Council promotes cost-efficient, energy-saving building practices via a global LEED, or Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design, points program for Architects, Engineers, Designers and Property Owners engaged in green activities. Kingspan Environmental is set to score big points of its own among those stakeholders by demystifying the LEED project certification and points-accrual process at the 2014 AHR Expo in New York City.

"The Air Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration Expo is a great place for us to meet face-to-face with Architects, Engineers, Designers and others interested in reducing costs and safeguarding resources through sustainable building technologies," says Seamus Cussen, commercial director for Kingspan in Jessup, Md "We're very excited to show our solar thermal solutions as well as the rainwater harvesting systems which will be launched at the Expo!"

"The commercial rainwater harvesting systems alone earn property owners LEED points in multiple credit areas," explains Cussen. "In addition, they provide as much as 85 percent of the water needed to run high-performance buildings efficiently and effectively with maintenance and run costs so low that most clients experience radical savings."

Cussen says the company's rainwater harvesting systems fit seamlessly into existing pipe work and suit a wide variety of applications which include, but are not limited to: universities, hospitals, airports, sports arenas, shopping centers and hotels.

The Expo will be held Jan. 21-23, 2014, at the Javits Center on Manhattan's west side. The center itself has undergone major renovation in recent years, complete with a green roof that is said to be "the largest in the Northeast". Representatives from Kingspan Environmental will engage attendees at booth # 6002 and be on hand to explain:

Why LEED certification and credits matter to Architects, Engineers, Designers, etc. How Kingspan Environmental helps fill LEED requirements in USGBC Sustainable Site, Water Efficiency, Energy & Atmosphere and Innovation in Design categories The built-in economic/environmental benefits of Kingspan Solar Thermal Systems and Commercial Rainwater Harvesting Systems

Kingspan Environmental, a division of Kingspan Group, is one of the world's largest and most experienced providers of sustainable building technologies. The company has a proven track record of success and offers a comprehensive range of solutions which produce results across any application.

Architects, Engineers, Designers and others interested in learning more about LEED certification, credits and Kingspan's full line of sustainable building technologies should call Seamus Cussen directly at (410) 799-6602 or visit KinspanEnviro.com.

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