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Fantastical Cities family workshop
Frank Gehry’s buildings received new exterior colour schemes and Moshe Safdie’s Habitat 67 was re-imagined during the free public workshop last weekend at the RIBA’s headquarters – 66 Portland Place. Families gathered ideas and
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RIBApix: The ‘Beeching axe’
Jonathan Makepeace looks at the impact of the ‘Beeching axe’ half a century after its publication… Fifty years ago on 27 March 1963 Dr Richard Beeching, Chairman of British Railways, published his infamous report Reshaping of
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Final Frame: Claremont House mausoleum
Vicky Wilson writes about the summer house that became a mausoleum for Princess Charlotte… The premature death of Princess Charlotte in 1817 after giving birth to a stillborn son plunged the country into mourning, as
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Final Frame: Crittall Manufacturing Company
In 2009, Robert Elwall wrote about the impact that one British manufacturer had on 20th-century architecture… The Crittall Manufacturing Company has made an immense contribution to modern architecture in Britain and abroad. The company was
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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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Final Frame: Gardens at Moor Close by Oliver Hill
Today we start a new regular feature on RIBA Blogs. From over 70,000 images available on RIBApix, curator Fiona Orsini has selected a drawing by Oliver Hill… The gardens at Moor Close are a hidden
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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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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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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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