Archive for 2011 July
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Shard London Bridge – latest picture
A photograph of the Shard taken yesterday (from a distance). The view is from Farringdon Lane, looking
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Closer Look talk – Avenues of Death: Designs of Funerary Architecture
A look at the photographs of the large gathering of people at yesterday’s Closer Look talk, ‘Avenues of Death‘, gives an indication of the great public interest in funerary architecture and design. The capacity
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The Royal Academy of Arts, Summer Exhibition 2011: Jeff Koons
Despite the wet and grey weather it is now summer in London– at least at the Royal Academy of Arts. The Royal Academy’s annual Summer Exhibition is open until 15 August 2011. For this
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The Commonwealth Institute: Past and future
The RIBA British Architectural Library is fortunate to hold a collection of 1.5 million photographs, enabling researchers to discover the past of buildings such as the former Commonwealth Institute, the future home of the
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Report on Human Settlements 2011
The UN Habitat released their 2011 Global Report on Human Settlements earlier this spring with a focus on how urban cities (which accomodate over 50% of the world’s population) can start adopting policies that
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‘Silence’: Tadao Ando’s first work in London
A new space in London This month, Royal Gold Medal winner Tadao Ando has had his first work in London unveiled; positioned outside the Connaught Hotel, his new fountain is part of a renovation scheme by
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Fabric First: PassivHaus and Prince’s House debate. Issue 1
A sunbathed rooftop terrace was the ideal location to sit down recently with Justin Bere of bere:architects and James Hulme of the Princes Foundation for the Built Environment, for a discussion on differing attitudes
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The Exploring Eye goes to Liverpool – Setting up the exhibition
Jonathan Makepeace (Assistant Curator, RIBA Library Photographs Collection) shares with us how the current exhibition on Eric de Maré was set up over several days in the new development on Mann Island, Liverpool: Day 1 With the curators
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Silkworms may hold the key to new sustainable materials in architecture
In architectural terms, the silkworm’s cocoon is an intriguing model of sustainable ergonomic design, albeit on a miniature scale: an oval container made from a continuous natural silk fibre up to 900m long, which
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Happy birthday Sir George Gilbert Scott!
Google has been taking an interest in architecture recently; only yesterday the doodle on their homepage incorporated an image of St Basil’s Cathedral, marking 450 years since the consecration of this Moscow landmark. Today’s
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