Tag archive for Photographs Collection
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Final Frame: Chilehaus, Hamburg
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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Explore and Draw: Park Life
Drawing can happen anywhere and inspiration for creativity is always close by, especially in the city. Last weekend the RIBA held its first Draw and Explore workshop, open to all members of the public,
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Final Frame: Berkeley Library, Trinity College, Dublin
For the latest installment of Final Frame, the RIBA’s Shiri Webb writes about Ahrends Burton & Koralek’s Brutalist library building… “This Wicklow granite-clad university library calls out to all Le Corbusier fans through its simple shape and
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Edwin Lutyens in 1913
“A foreign critic said not long ago that the domestic architecture of Great Britain to-day is not only a finer thing than that of any other country, but better than any period of history.” Houses
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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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News from the archive of the Periodicals Collection: Architecture at the end of 1912
Discover the history of architecture through the RIBA’s collection of 2,000 periodical titles. Today, the British Architectural Library looks at what happened in architecture in 1912 and makes comparisons with the events of 2012: Richard Norman Shaw (7 May
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Oscar Niemeyer: Legend of Modernism
Justine Sambrook, curator at the Robert Elwall Photographs Collection, looks at the work of Oscar Niemeyer through the collections of the RIBA… The sad news today of the death of Oscar Niemeyer, shortly before his
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The Barbican – Drawing inspiration
The Barbican is not only a unique part of the London, it is a source of inspiration for artists and architects – and more recently, a competition-winning drawing. Strong impressions are generated by the Barbican,
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Sketch in the City: Drawings inspired by the RIBA’s collections
How members of the public came to the RIBA to draw London’s skyline. Usually the RIBA’s collections at the British Architectural Library are used for research, while individual items are put on display at the
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RIBApix image of the month: Bus station for London Transport, Newbury Park
A new image every month celebrating architecture, chosen from RIBApix, where you will discover over 70,000 images on architecture, landscape and the decorative arts. This month’s image is of the vaulted bus shelter at Newbury Park.
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