Guardian: Work is to start in the New Year on Europe’s largest building made from straw bales, which will rise from the slopes of Eccleshill above the river Aire valley in Bradford. Thousands of tightly packed cubes of compressed straw will form the core walls of the 2,787 square metre complex on a brownfield site, formerly occupied by a now-demolished high school. The £4m project will house a new community centre for a socially deprived area of east Bradford as well as 14 workspaces for small enterprise…