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A record of over one and a half centuries of architectural history, the RIBA’s Periodicals Collection reveals news from 150 years ago this month about new buildings from across the the British Isles… 150 years ago in
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In 2010, Robert Elwall looked at Fritz Höger’s brick masterpiece on the Elbe… A masterpiece of Expressionist architecture, Hamburg’s Chilehaus was built as part of a programme by the city council to clean up insalubrious
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Kurt Helfrich on the work of architect Rudolph M. Schindler… This coloured presentation sketch by Rudolph M. Schindler (1887-1953) features an unrealised hillside home overlooking San Francisco Bay. Born in Vienna Schindler trained under Otto
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Architectural inspiration is different for everyone – from being captivated by an intriguing patterned ceiling, to finding satisfaction in the rhythmic placement of windows or wonderment at the sheer size and scale of buildings.
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A record of over one and a half centuries of architectural history, the RIBA’s Periodicals Collection holds news from 150 years ago this month about the winner of the competition to build the Albert Memorial… ‘There can,
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Discover the Banality of Good
What connects King Abdullah’s Economic City in Saudi Arabia to Stevenage in Hertfordshire? Or the city of Songjiang in China to Tema in Ghana? Each are new towns – planned places, quite different in
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Venice Takeaway: Ideas to Change British Architecture
The RIBA was buzzing at the opening of our major spring exhibition last month. At the RIBA, discover what 10 teams learned as they explored the globe to find answers to top issues in
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Colour in Architectural Photography
In a public talk on 27 November 2012 at the RIBA, curator Justine Sambrook, using material ranging from hand-tinted 19th-century lantern slides to the work of some of today’s most respected contemporary architectural photographers,
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Building Futures Think Pieces: Tall Buildings
Are tall buildings the answer to population growth? Earlier this year Renzo Piano’s Shard was finally unveiled as the latest tall building to appear on London’s skyline. It has since attracted a mixed response; it’s
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Building Futures Debate – 6 November
This House Believes that… London will become more trouble than it’s worth. The UK needs more than one global city: Unequal investment is undermining the true potential of UK plc Earlier this year, the core cities in
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Is the British high street dead?
Building Futures recently gathered at BDP for a debate interrogating the future of the high street, specifically the impact of technology on the future of retail and our social attitudes. Architect Tom Young was present
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Lib Dem conference: RIBA bangs housing drum
The RIBA’s Sam Wilson shares his experience of the Liberal Democrat conference The strong gales and choppy seas in Brighton this week seemed an appropriate backdrop for the Liberal Democrats’ annual conference. With the Party
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The ‘Guerrilla Tactics’ CPD conference is a fantastic event that I look forward to every year
There is always a really wide range of diverse talks given and the beauty of the event is that you can pick and mix which seminars you attend to specifically tailor the event to
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New Frontiers – Guerilla Tactics Conference 2012
If you run a small or medium-sized practice or are a sole practitioner I know it can be a difficult decision to give up one, let alone two, days to what is in effect
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