Archive for 2012 February
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Architectural news from the archive of the Periodicals Collection: February 2012
Discover the history of architecture through the RIBA’s collection of 2,000 periodical titles. This month the British Architectural Library takes a brief look at the changes in British housing 150, 100, 50 and 15 years ago this month: February
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The ‘elephants’ have left the building
With the RIBA’s Piper Centre soon opening, some material from the architectural collections are being moved to their new home. Yesterday it was the turn of the ‘elephants’, a small collection of 42 oversized
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Home Season: Your House, Your Home
A pod on stilts, mobile towers, castles and skyscrapers were some of the visions children had of housing a hundred years from now. Yesterday, RIBA headquarters was the venue for Your House, Your Home, an
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Home Season opens: Exhibitions and family activities
The RIBA’s Home Season has now opened with exhibitions exploring the evolution of housing in the UK and how we live today. With the installation over, staff at the RIBA have are now busy
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Before the Shard
In 1830 artist Joseph Gandy imagined John Soane’s Bank of England in the City of London as a ruin like those of ancient Rome. Less than a hundred years later his drawing was to take a prophetic
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Royal Gold Medal Student Crit 2012
This year’s Royal Gold Medal Student Critique, which took place in the morning of 9 February at the RIBA, was a very popular event. The Wren room (on the 6th floor of the building)
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Home Season – The installation of ‘High Society’
It is exactly one week until the RIBA’s ‘Home Season’ officially opens. After months of planning comes the short but frenetic installation period. With today’s post are images of the curators from the RIBA
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Reflections from RIBA Stephen Williams Scholar 2009
Laura Collins – RIBA Stephen Williams Scholar 2009 The award of this scholarship provided me with invaluable financial support to continue with my final year of the M.Arch (Part 2 Course) at the University of
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President’s Medals Touring Exhibition
The exhibition of entries submitted for the 2011 RIBA President’s Medals Student Awards is currently on display at the University of Newcastle until 15 February. Other locations confirmed for the 2011 touring exhibition include Leicester
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RIBA Bursaries for Architectural and Construction MBA
The RIBA is providing six bursaries of £1,000 each for the RIBA Architectural and Construction MBA, at the Bradford Management School. The bursaries will be open to all RIBA members who apply to start
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