Archinect - News 2024-12-22T01:58:26-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/143664937/britain-s-last-deep-pit-coal-mine-closes-the-end-of-the-industrial-revolution Britain's last deep-pit coal mine closes — the end of the industrial revolution? Alexander Walter 2015-12-18T12:25:00-05:00 >2015-12-21T12:18:59-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/iw/iwd8dl0squ4ax0g5.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>The last deep-pit coal mine in the U.K. plans to shut its doors here next week, heralding the end of a centuries-old industry that helped fuel the industrial revolution and build the British Empire. The shutdown [...] represents a victory for advocates of reducing carbon emissions after world leaders gathered in Paris to discuss how to combat global warming, with coal in the cross hairs. It also reflects a glut of energy on world markets, from crude oil to natural gas and coal itself.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html> https://archinect.com/news/article/22724473/spain-s-44m-niemeyer-centre-is-shut-in-galleries-glut Spain's €44m Niemeyer centre is shut in galleries glut Archinect 2011-10-04T13:26:26-04:00 >2011-10-04T14:24:41-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/d9/d962b3ca39e61120f849b19680b0d50f?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>A dazzling &euro;44 million (&pound;37.7m) arts centre in the northern Spanish city of Avil&eacute;s is to close after six months amid political squabbling as the country asks itself what to do with a glut of glittering new museums. The Niemeyer centre, which was designed by the celebrated 103-year-old Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, was intended to have the same impact on the industrial Cantabrian sea port as the Guggenheim museum has had on Bilbao, 150 miles to the east.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>