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Congratulations to Lesley Lokko, our Royal Gold Medallist 2024 🏅
Last night RIBA President
@Muyiwa_Oki
presented Lesley Lokko with the
#RoyalGoldMedal
at RIBA, London:
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First look inside
@KIERANTMBERLK
's
#USA
embassy
@USAinUK
in London - Nine Elms landmark will open in January via
@BDOnline
#architecture
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While we have made the decision to pause communications to respect the passing of our Patron, HM Queen Elizabeth II, today we feel it crucial to mark what would have been Stephen Lawrence’s 48th birthday. 1/4
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🏆 📣 WINNER: Goldsmith Street by
@MikhailRiches
with Cathy Hawley wins the 2019 RIBA
#StirlingPrize
, sponsored by
@Almacantar_
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📢 BREAKING NEWS: Acclaimed Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi to receive the 2022
#RoyalGoldMedal
, the UK’s highest honours for architecture, approved personally by Her Majesty The Queen. Read more:
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📢 BREAKING NEWS: Sir David Adjaye OBE (
@dadjaye
@AdjayeAssoc
) to receive the 2021
#RoyalGoldMedal
, the UK’s highest honour for architecture, approved personally by Her Majesty The Queen: Image © Alex Fradkin
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Hastings Pier
@Hastings_Pier
by dRMM
@dRMMArchitects
wins the 2017 RIBA
#StirlingPrize
, sponsored by Almacantar
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NEWS 📣 Congratulations to Muyiwa Oki (
@Muyiwa_Oki
) who has been elected RIBA President 2023-25:
#RIBAelects
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NEWS: Siti Nurafaf Ismail from the University of Malaya has won the thirteenth RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship
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We stand ready to play whatever part we can in restoring
#NotreDameCathedral
, a medieval masterpiece which stood tall for over 800 years.
Our thoughts are with the people of France and those around the world to whom this building means so much.
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BREAKING NEWS: Grafton Architects (
@graftonarchs
) to receive 2020
#RoyalGoldMedal
, the UK’s highest honour for architecture.
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RIBA condemns discrimination, hate and violence. Black Lives Matter.
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BREAKING:
@Bloomberg
London by
@FosterPartners
wins 2018 RIBA
#StirlingPrize
for UK’s best new building. Sponsored by
@Almacantar_
.
Photo: Nigel Young
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📣 NEWS: The winner of the 2022 RIBA Stirling Prize is The New Library, Magdalene College in Cambridge by Niall McLaughlin Architects
🏆 Congratulations to the winning team! View the project here:
#StirlingPrize
#RIBAAwards
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🏆 📣 BREAKING NEWS:
@KingstonUni
London - Town House by
@graftonarchs
wins the 2021 RIBA
#StirlingPrize
, sponsored by
@Almacantar_
. Congratulations to the winning team!
Image:
@editphoto
#RIBAAwards
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We are pleased to announce
@CambCentMosque
by
@MarksBarfield
Architects is the winner of the People's Vote for this year's
#StirlingPrize
.
Tune into BBC Radio 4 and BBC News Channel from 7.15pm tomorrow for the official winner of this year's Stirling Prize.
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🏅Sir David Adjaye OBE is presented with the 2021 Royal Gold Medal for architecture.
#RoyalGoldMedal
Sponsored by
@ArperOfficial
Image: Francis Kokoroko
@dadjaye
@AdjayeAssoc
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The striking Art Deco interior of Mounts Baths, Northampton (1936) is dominated by eight concrete parabolic arches. Unlike Victorian baths, the changing rooms were set back from the poolside, forcing swimmers to pass through mandatory showers and footbaths.
^Fiona
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At the end of August two potentially dangerous pieces of legislation will come into force – and today’s 'radical' planning system reforms do nothing to stop them. (1/4)
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JUST ANNOUNCED: Lochside House by
@HWMArchitects
has been crowned RIBA
#HouseOfTheYear
2018
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Today (5 July) marks 120 years since the first woman was admitted to
@RIBA
. Read some of the best celebrations of women in architecture via
@ArchitectsJrnal
– join in using
#EthelDay
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🏆 📣 BREAKING NEWS: McGrath Road for
@NewhamLondon
by Peter Barber Architects
@PpeterPeter
wins the 2021 RIBA
#NeaveBrownAward
for Housing.
Image:
@morleyvon
#RIBAAwards
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Congratulations to Dame Zaha Hadid who has tonight received the
#RoyalGoldMedal
for architecture
@RIBA
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WINNER: Caring Wood by James Macdonald Wright and Niall Maxwell
@macdonaldwright
@Rural_Office
@GrandDesigns
#HouseOfTheYear
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🏆 📣 WINNER: Goldsmith Street by
@MikhailRiches
with Cathy Hawley for
@NorwichCC
announced as winner of the inaugural
@RIBA
Neave Brown Award for Housing
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BREAKING NEWS: Alan Jones has been elected the next RIBA President (2019-21)
@AlanJones2008
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🏆 📣 BREAKING NEWS: Cambridge Mosque Trust
@CambCentMosque
by
@MarksBarfield
wins the 2021 RIBA
#ClientoftheYear
, sponsored by
@ibstockbrick
.
Image:
@morleyvon
#RIBAAwards
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Today we are launching the RIBA National Schools Programme – the first nationwide architecture programme for school children. With thanks to our generous supporters.
#RIBALearning
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Opened in 1932, Grange-Over-Sands Lido, Cumbria had over 6000 visitors on just 1 day in August. Sadly in 1993 it closed due to ongoing repairs. Currently derelict, the lido is the subject of a restoration campaign
@savegrangelido
to reopen it to the public
^Fiona
📷© I-am-Sean
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📢 NEWS: The 2019 RIBA National Award winners have been announced - take a look at the UK’s best new buildings
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Neave Brown wins the 2018 Royal Gold Medal for architecture
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Congratulations Neave Brown! Our 2018 recipient of the
#RoyalGoldMedal
for architecture - well deserved 🥇 👏🏼
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Liverpool Everyman Theatre
@LivEveryPlay
by Haworth Tompkins wins the 2014
@RIBA
#StirlingPrize
for architecture
http://t.co/IuB6MzdvPM
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Impressed by the simplicity of The Quest? The discreet, captivating single-story home in Dorset was designed by Magnus Strom
@stromarchitects
– find out more about his work 🔎
@GrandDesigns
#HouseOfTheYear
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TONIGHT! The winner of the
@RIBA
#StirlingPrize
announced LIVE on
@BBCNews
Channel 📺 + 💻 from 20:30 >>
#Almacantar
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The 2019
@RIBA
#StirlingPrize
shortlist has been announced! Which will be crowned the UK’s best new building?
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Just announced: 61 London buildings awarded for architectural excellence
@RIBA_London
#RIBAAwards
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'Neave's contribution to architecture will not be forgotten. His vision and ideals live on in the generations of architects, whom he has inspired.'
@ben_derbyshire
on the loss of architecture pioneer, Neave Brown.
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How can we fix public sector housing? How can architects help to create sustainable, community-focused solutions? We’re rounding up today's
#RoyalGoldMedal
events celebrating the life, work and legacy of
#NeaveBrown
– view the full film here:
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Take a look at the UK's best new buildings - the 49
@RIBA
National Award winners of 2018
#RIBAAwards
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Dame Zaha Hadid 1950-2016 - our statement:
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📢BREAKING NEWS: Professor Lesley Lokko to receive the 2020 RIBA Annie Spink Award for Excellence in Architectural Education: Image © Debra Hurford-Brown
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‘Architecture has lost a giant’
@RIBA
President
@ben_derbyshire
on the sad passing of Neave Brown
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Congratulations to the
@FosterPartners
project team on winning the 2018 RIBA
#StirlingPrize
, sponsored by
@Almacantar_
, for
@Bloomberg
London!
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Tune in to
@BBCFOUR
at 9pm tonight for
#Bauhaus100
, the story of Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, on the centenary of the Bauhaus school.
@RIBA
’s
#BeyondBauhaus
exhibition opens on 1 October and looks at the Bauhaus influence in British architecture
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'She Draws: She Builds' is an inspirational film based on interviews with women architects talking about their lives in architecture. Join
@SheDrawsBuilds
for a free screening
@RIBA
on 7 Dec at 7pm. No need to register, just turn up!
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London's
@BurntwoodSchool
by
@AHMMArchitects
wins the 2015
@RIBA
#StirlingPrize
for architecture
http://t.co/3hLSC9GhBz
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RIBA National Award WINNER: Preston Bus Station Refurbishment by John Puttick Associates with Cassidy+Ashton 📷 Gareth Gardner
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Newport Street Gallery by Caruso St John wins the 2016
@RIBA
#StirlingPrize
sponsored by
#Almacantar
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NEWS: Today we've launched the
#2030ClimateChallenge
for
@RIBA
Chartered Practices to help the construction industry meet
#NetZero
whole life carbon for new and retrofitted buildings by 2030. Find out more here:
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What makes a place successful? Somewhere that’s pleasing to the eye? Somewhere that’s sustainable for future generations? Today we’ve published a report which sets out ten characteristics of places where people want to live.
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💬 "All my projects, if you look at them, why are they successful? Because women were involved."
Yasmeen Lari, Pakistan’s first female architect, has been awarded the 2023
#RoyalGoldMedal
.
📽️ Watch our exclusive interview:
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Today is
#LondonHistoryDay
! Discover the London that might have been through alternative proposals for existing buildings in the
#RIBACollections
:
Image: Ernö Goldfinger proposal for a shopping centre at Elephant and Castle, courtesy RIBA Collections
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Grafton Architects'
@utecedu
campus wins
@RIBA
International Prize for the world's best new building
#RIBAIntPrize
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Ethel Mary Charles was the first woman architect to join the
@RIBA
. Fearless and pioneering she paved the way for brilliant women of the profession. Tell us about the women in architecture that inspire you. Nominations close this Thursday
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Tonight, we will announce the winner of the RIBA
#StirlingPrize
2019. Goldsmith Street by
@MikhailRiches
with Cathy Hawley is on the shortlist, along with five other projects. Follow the
@BBCNews
Channel live from 8.30pm to find out who will be this year's winner.
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We ❤️ the Dame Zaha Hadid
#GoogleDoodle
- discover more and see some of her unrealised architecture in VR >
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Our Architecture Gallery is open to everyone! The Royal Institute of British Architects say
#LondonIsOpen
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Please join us in giving a warm to welcome to our new
@RIBA
President
@ben_derbyshire
who starts his term today
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🎉 Huge congratulations to
@selasi_setufe
for receiving an MBE in recognition of her incredible work towards diversifying our profession - so very well deserved. (1/2)
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Ever wondered what architecture school was like a century ago? This photograph by Charles Herbert Reilly from the
#RIBACollections
shows the
@LivUni
school of architecture on Ashton Street, Liverpool, in the 1920s. 📏✏️📐
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Today
@RIBA
Council have voted unanimously to declare a
#climateemergency
and to drive support for the UK Government’s net zero greenhouse gas emissions target
@ben_derbyshire
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The people's vote goes to
@Hastings_Pier
by
@dRMMArchitects
!
The
@RIBA
#StirlingPrize
winner is announced tomorrow
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To celebrate
#NationalBirdDay
here's a delicate study of birds by Victorian architect William Burges (1827-1881) courtesy of
#RIBApix
. These drawings form part of a vellum sketchbook containing studies of Italian architecture, decoration, birds, flowers and heads.
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The 2018
@RIBA
#StirlingPrize
SHORTLIST has been announced! Which will be crowned the UK's best new building?
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Zaha Hadid was the first woman to receive the
#RoyalGoldMedal
on her own (rather than in a partnership), in 2016. This is a student design from the start of her career, which reimagines Trafalgar Square as an elaborate multi-storeyed arcaded structure.
^India
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Happy
#LancashireDay
- the county in north west England home to such architectural splendours as the Art Deco Midland Hotel in Morecambe Bay and Brutalist Preston Bus Station.
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John Morden Centre by
@MaeArchitects
wins the RIBA Stirling Prize 2023 🏆
An example of how buildings can themselves be therapeutic, the John Morden Centre provides elderly living without isolation:
#StirlingPrize
sponsored
@autodesk
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IT'S BACK! Don't forget to tune into
@Channel4
on Wednesday at 9pm for
@GrandDesigns
@RIBA
#HouseOfTheYear
2018 📺
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Happy Christmas from everybody at
@RIBA
! 🎄Here's a Family Christmas card sent by Jane Drew and Max Fry from their home and offices at 63 Gloucester Place, London in 1940.
#RIBACollections
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Today is Stephen Lawrence Day, a time to celebrate the positive work of his legacy.
In our film, Shawn - a Part 2 student - talks about how he has been supported and encouraged to become an architect
#BecauseOfStephen
#SLDay
@S_LawrenceTrust
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Designed by award-winning architects Powell & Moya in 1968, Putney Pool is one of the best examples of modernist-style municipal public baths. The L-shaped design allowed diving to take place whilst the main pool was in use, removing the need for a separate diving pool.
^Fiona
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Congratulations to the winner of the 2018 RIBA International Prize: Children Village, a rural school in Brazil, by architects Aleph Zero and Rosenbaum
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Thank you
@JaneDuncanPRIBA
finishing her term as
@RIBA
President today! Jane will continue to work tirelessly for members as our IPPRIBA.
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New
@RoyalMail
stamp collection celebrates UK’s “renaissance of architecture” via
@Dezeen
#architecture
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Press Release:
@RIBA
announces three funding schemes worth a record £41,000 to support architecture students
@RIBAEducation
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.
@camerablaylock
's photographs of Eero Saarinen's 1962 TWA Terminal at JFK International Airport, New York, are among the latest additions to
#RIBApix
: . Courtesy Cameron Blaylock /
#RIBACollections
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Today we remember Stephen Lawrence, an aspiring architect, whose dream was tragically never realised.
#StephenLawrenceDay
(1/3)
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