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...And three of this year’s candidates for the RIBA Stirling Prize are projects for small apartments....
...“Long Life, Low Energy: Designing for a Circular Economy” is at Riba until April 1....
...A particularly striking example of a craft practice inspired by ibicenco tradition is ceramicist Laura de Grinyo, who studied with master potter Adrián Ribas at his 70-year-old studio and has quickly moved...
...The Riba Gold Medal usually comes towards the end of a long life and an illustrious career, often as belated recognition....
...In a niche sits a bust of William Cavendish, Fifth Duke of Devonshire, who was known for his less-than-enlightened views on race....
...“The ribbon allows you to sit and follow the path of birds flying up the valley,” says Foster Lomas co-director William Foster....
...The rest of the show reveals the influence of the émigré Modernists, from the beautiful Hertfordshire Schools to the works of Owen Williams, Denys Lasdun and Eric Lyons....
...Beyond Bauhaus — Modernism in Britain 1933-66 is at the Riba from October 1 to February 1 Bauhaus bows down to William Morris Walter Gropius wrote that his work owed a debt to “Ruskin and Morris of England...
...Those of us who speak out face intimidation from the Riba establishment....
...Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism, by Barnabas Calder, William Heinemann, RRP£25, 416 pages Concrete Concept: Brutalist Buildings Around the World, by Christopher Beanland, Frances Lincoln, RRP£20/$30...
...Stanton Williams’ Sainsbury Laboratory at the University of Cambridge won this same prize in 2012....
...“An earlier proposal for its total restoration was budgeted at £10m,” says WWM director William Mann. Quality has not been compromised....
...It is a dispute that goes back to William Morris, who could be heard pacing the floor of the mansion he was decorating for one of his aristocratic clients and muttering, within their earshot: “Why must I...
...She asked the Tanzanian-born, RIBA award-winning British architect David Adjaye to design the fair, and put together an impressive series of talks to provide critical context....
...… Across the historic centre, I found another, very different, RIBA prizewinner....
...It was built by James Stewart on land given to his father, William, who arrived in the penal colony in 1825 and served as lieutenant-governor from 1825 to 1827....
...The shortlist for the Riba Stirling Prize usually tells us something about the state of the economy, society or culture. But quite what it tells us this year is tricky to ascertain....
...The Sainsbury Laboratory, a small research facility set in the Botanic Garden of the University of Cambridge, is the surprise winner of this year’s Riba Stirling Prize, the UK’s premier architectural award...
...Producers include Can Majoral, Can Ribas and Toni Gelabert....
...“The idea is that from inside your house, you wouldn’t know that you share your home with other animals,” says Dr Carol Williams, author of Biodiversity for Low and Zero Carbon Buildings (Riba Publishing...
...Stewart Williams’ Twin Palms Credited with shaping the mid-century modernist landscape of Palm Springs, E....
...However, bookmakers William Hill are offering only 9-2 on Liverpool One winning the prize on October 17....
...RIBA International Conference 2007, October 26-27, French Communist Party headquarters, Paris....
...Islamic teaching encourages trading, investment and charitable giving, but frowns on the giving or receiving of interest, or riba, which it categorises as usury....
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