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News, updates and insight from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) 🦁 This account is monitored Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm
66 Portland Place, London
Joined August 2008
📣 Difficult Sites: Architecture Against the Odds is now open at RIBA, London. Explore architectural projects that have overcome challenging terrains, tight urban spaces, and complex remodelling - showcasing the creative resilience of architects:
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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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🏆 📣 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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📣 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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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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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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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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JUST ANNOUNCED: Lochside House by @HWMArchitects has been crowned RIBA #HouseOfTheYear 2018
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🏆 The winner of the Neave Brown Award for Housing 2024 is Chowdhury Walk by Al-Jawad Pike. Given in honour of social housing pioneer, Neave Brown, this annual award recognises the UK’s best new affordable housing: Sponsored by @VMZINCUK. #RIBAawards
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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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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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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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🏆 📣 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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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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🏆 The winner of the RIBA Stirling Prize 2024 is The Elizabeth Line by @GrimshawArch, Maynard, @equation_light and @atkinsrealis. A triumph in architect-led collaboration, setting a new standard for inner-city transport: Sponsored by @autodesk
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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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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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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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The 2019 @RIBA #StirlingPrize shortlist has been announced! Which will be crowned the UK’s best new building?
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TONIGHT! The winner of the @RIBA #StirlingPrize announced LIVE on @BBCNews Channel 📺 + 💻 from 20:30 >> #Almacantar
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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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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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💬 "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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London's @BurntwoodSchool by @AHMMArchitects wins the 2015 @RIBA #StirlingPrize for architecture http://t.co/3hLSC9GhBz.
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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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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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We ❤️ the Dame Zaha Hadid #GoogleDoodle - discover more and see some of her unrealised architecture in VR >
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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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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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The people's vote goes to @Hastings_Pier by @dRMMArchitects! .The @RIBA #StirlingPrize winner is announced tomorrow
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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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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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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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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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IT'S BACK! Don't forget to tune into @Channel4 on Wednesday at 9pm for @GrandDesigns @RIBA #HouseOfTheYear 2018 📺
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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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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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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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Press Release: @RIBA announces three funding schemes worth a record £41,000 to support architecture students @RIBAEducation
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New @RoyalMail stamp collection celebrates UK’s “renaissance of architecture” via @Dezeen #architecture
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