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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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What my RIBA Research Award means to me – Alan Short
At the end of last month Chris Halligan of Stephen George and Partners shared his thoughts about what winning an RIBA President’s Award for Research meant to him. Today we’re very pleased to bring you
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What my RIBA Research Award means to me – Chris Halligan
The RIBA President’s Awards for Research is now accepting entries so we thought it would be interesting to check back with some past winners to see what their Award meant to them. First Chris Halligan
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Carolyn Steel Interview: Part 1, Us and Food: Challenging Disconnection
Carolyn Steel is an architect and one of the leading thinkers on issues of food and our urban environments. Her book Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives, was published in 2008. She has
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“My phone is smart, so I don’t have to be”
Last week US Energy Secretary Steven Chu launched “Apps for Energy”, a competition to attract the web’s brightest innovators to a policy arena where they are desperately needed: energy saving. It is no secret that
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Energy Costs, Energy Efficiency, and the ‘Green Deal’
When the Department of Energy and Climate Change published its ‘Commitment to Renewables’ last month, it did so in the wake of David Cameron and Chris Huhne’s summit with the ‘big six’ energy suppliers,
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Sustainable Development and the National Planning Policy Framework
Yesterday the Government’s consultation of the draft National Planning Policy Framework closed. The proposed presumption in favour of sustainable development has catalysed a debate about the amount and quality of development England needs to
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Life, Death, and a Sustainable Future
At the entrance to the recently opened OMA / progress exhibition at the Barbican, there is a quote by Philip K Dick: “do not assume that order and stability are always good, in a society
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The Importance of Urbanism: PassivHaus and Princes House debate. Issue 4
Whether you believe that cities are the cause or potential solution to our climate woes (or indeed both), it is clear that they are a fundamental component in the drive for sustainability. In many
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Beauty Matters: PassivHaus and Prince’s House debate. Issue 3
While the National Trust may be on a campaign to kill off the Government’s overhaul of the planning system, there is at least one point within the Draft National Planning Policy Framework that they must
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Sustainable Production: PassivHaus and Prince’s House debate. Issue 2
As with the clothes we wear, the food we eat, and the gadgets that entertain us, the buildings we live and work in do not appear out of nowhere. There is an incredible and
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