Changing face of Victoria
When I first came to London over 20 years ago, my first job was in Queen Anne’s Gate not far from London’s Victoria Station. Yet despite its proximity both to the station and to Westminster, the area around Victoria Street was decidedly sleepy, full of anonymous-looking government offices and with few decent shops or refreshment opportunities beyond the old fashioned boozers. It’s no wonder I spent lunch times in St James’s Park instead.
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Britain's Secret Homes
Pamela Buxton
If walls could talk, what stories could they tell us asks Britain’s Secret Homes, yet another tv programme about houses...
If walls could talk, what stories could they tell us asks Britain’s Secret Homes, yet another tv programme about houses...
Calder After the War
Pamela Buxton
There’s an exquisite piece in the new Alexander Calder exhibition entitled Rat, whose whiskery form only crystallises in its carefully cast shadow...
There’s an exquisite piece in the new Alexander Calder exhibition entitled Rat, whose whiskery form only crystallises in its carefully cast shadow...
United Micro Kingdoms | A Design Fiction
Pamela Buxton
Dunne and Raby's latest exhibition United Micro Kingdoms – A Design Fiction is not so much a design show but an exploration of four different ways of living in the future...
Dunne and Raby's latest exhibition United Micro Kingdoms – A Design Fiction is not so much a design show but an exploration of four different ways of living in the future...
10 Instagram photo sets to giveaway
RIBAJ giveaway
We’re giving 10 readers who use the photo-sharing site the chance to win a set of their Instagram photos printed onto custom Polaroid, courtesy of our friends at Origrami...
We’re giving 10 readers who use the photo-sharing site the chance to win a set of their Instagram photos printed onto custom Polaroid, courtesy of our friends at Origrami...
Designs of the Year 2013
Pamela Buxton
The Design Museum’s annual Designs of the Year show is always a curious mish-mash of an exhibition, but in a good way...
The Design Museum’s annual Designs of the Year show is always a curious mish-mash of an exhibition, but in a good way...
The Banality of Good
Pamela Buxton
With triptychs and a hint of an altar, The Banality of Good: Six decades of New Towns, Architects, Money and Politics show at the RIBA draws on religious iconography...
With triptychs and a hint of an altar, The Banality of Good: Six decades of New Towns, Architects, Money and Politics show at the RIBA draws on religious iconography...
Time Team | Archive detectives
Michael Blair
Any doubt over the value of archives is lavishly dispelled by the forensic refurbishment of the elegant Art Deco entrance to Claridge's Hotel...
Any doubt over the value of archives is lavishly dispelled by the forensic refurbishment of the elegant Art Deco entrance to Claridge's Hotel...
Exclusive giveaway | Deck the walls
Surface View giveaway
To celebrate the arrival of spring, RIBA Journal has teamed up with digital wizard, Surface View, to offer readers the chance to win one of five 1500 x 1500mm canvas prints, up to the value of £400 each. Best bit? You get to choose which print will give an industrial-style edge to your living space...
To celebrate the arrival of spring, RIBA Journal has teamed up with digital wizard, Surface View, to offer readers the chance to win one of five 1500 x 1500mm canvas prints, up to the value of £400 each. Best bit? You get to choose which print will give an industrial-style edge to your living space...
Thai cafe culture
Pamela Buxton
Naamyaa, located in the Angel Building in Islington, London, is the first of what is hoped will be many of the new café concept, whose highly eclectic menu encompasses everything from...
Naamyaa, located in the Angel Building in Islington, London, is the first of what is hoped will be many of the new café concept, whose highly eclectic menu encompasses everything from...
BDA Innovation Day | Video
BDA Innovation Day
Last month, the Brick Development Association (BDA) which represents the UK brick industry brought together a variety of speakers from artists and architects to manufacturers, contractors and engineers as part of their Innovation Day...
Last month, the Brick Development Association (BDA) which represents the UK brick industry brought together a variety of speakers from artists and architects to manufacturers, contractors and engineers as part of their Innovation Day...
Prototyping Architecture
Pamela Buxton
It’s refreshing to encounter an architectural exhibition that’s not about the finished article. Prototyping Architecture is instead interested in the process behind the development...
It’s refreshing to encounter an architectural exhibition that’s not about the finished article. Prototyping Architecture is instead interested in the process behind the development...
Video: In conversation with Zumthor
Tony Chapman
RIBA Journal exclusive cut: Tony Chapman of the RIBA went to Switzerland to interview Peter Zumthor on his home turf on craft, clients, Stonehenge in Devon and conversation versus trust.
RIBA Journal exclusive cut: Tony Chapman of the RIBA went to Switzerland to interview Peter Zumthor on his home turf on craft, clients, Stonehenge in Devon and conversation versus trust.
Spas in their eyes
Pamela Buxton
Of all Peter Zumthor’s works, the Thermal Baths at Vals in Switzerland tends to be the building that architects rave about the most.
Of all Peter Zumthor’s works, the Thermal Baths at Vals in Switzerland tends to be the building that architects rave about the most.
Your Zumthor: Instagram
Instagram
Thanks to our growing Instagram community for sharing some wonderful images of Zumthor and his architectural masterpieces.
Thanks to our growing Instagram community for sharing some wonderful images of Zumthor and his architectural masterpieces.
Excalibur's end
Pamela Buxton
It’s lasted more than 60 years, but this Spring, time finally runs out for the Britain’s largest prefab estate, the Excalibur.
It’s lasted more than 60 years, but this Spring, time finally runs out for the Britain’s largest prefab estate, the Excalibur.
Retail therapy
Jan-Carlos Kucharek
When American Harry Gordon Selfridge opened his eponymous department store in London in 1909, one of the many attractions of his retail emporium was his Silence Room.
When American Harry Gordon Selfridge opened his eponymous department store in London in 1909, one of the many attractions of his retail emporium was his Silence Room.
V&A Furniture Room
Pamela Buxton
“People are fascinated with how things are made,” says Nick Humphrey, co-curator of the new permanent furniture gallery at the V&A – surprisingly the museum’s first devoted to the subject...
“People are fascinated with how things are made,” says Nick Humphrey, co-curator of the new permanent furniture gallery at the V&A – surprisingly the museum’s first devoted to the subject...
Ronchamp revisited
Pamela Buxton
If ever a setting was naturally perfect, it’s the hilltop location of Le Corbusier’s Notre Dame du Haut at Ronchamp. On a clear day, the views away from the chapel towards the Vosges mountains...
If ever a setting was naturally perfect, it’s the hilltop location of Le Corbusier’s Notre Dame du Haut at Ronchamp. On a clear day, the views away from the chapel towards the Vosges mountains...
The Perfect Place to Grow
Pamela Buxton
As it expands its Battersea campus and greatly increases its student numbers, the Royal College of Art is fast-changing. This hugely enjoyable anniversary exhibition of work by alumni and staff...
As it expands its Battersea campus and greatly increases its student numbers, the Royal College of Art is fast-changing. This hugely enjoyable anniversary exhibition of work by alumni and staff...
Jewels of the Soane
Pamela Buxton
Ever fancied dangling the plan of the Pantheon from your ears or sporting the Colosseum around your neck? If so, that’s another good reason to visit the Soane Museum...
Ever fancied dangling the plan of the Pantheon from your ears or sporting the Colosseum around your neck? If so, that’s another good reason to visit the Soane Museum...
Exclusive giveaway worth £2,300
Hosu chair by Coalesse
The best dressed office will be wearing bright, confident and solid blocks of colour like this zesty yellow ‘Hosu’ chair by Coalesse. Designed for laidback working by Patricia Urquiola the chair, worth £2,300, could be yours! Simply enter our giveaway for your chance to win...
The best dressed office will be wearing bright, confident and solid blocks of colour like this zesty yellow ‘Hosu’ chair by Coalesse. Designed for laidback working by
The housing revolution starts here
After a year of thorough, wide-ranging research involving all the key players in new housing around the country, the RIBA’s Future Homes Commission, chaired by former CBI director Sir John Banham, has produced its report.
Win in our Oct giveaway
Our October giveaway is a stylish ampersand lamp created by London-based designers Goodwin+Goodwin and worth £125. Casting a soft glow, the little typographic lamp has been fashioned out of white powder-coated...
Class of their own
Pamela Buxton
The government’s new edict for cut-price school buildings made me appreciate the last hurrahs of the previous government’s BSF school building programme as I made the long pilgrimage...
The government’s new edict for cut-price school buildings made me appreciate the last hurrahs of the previous government’s BSF school building programme as I made the long pilgrimage...
V&A Prism break
Pamela Buxton
The most successful art installations are those that tell you something about the location, as well as the art itself. In this way Prism, created at the Victoria & Albert Museum during the recent London Design Festival...
The most successful art installations are those that tell you something about the location, as well as the art itself. In this way Prism, created at the Victoria & Albert Museum during the recent London Design Festival...
Video: Tent London highlights
The buzz around Tent London gets louder every year. Our digital editor Sara Loane paced around the Old Truman Brewery in the lively Brick Lance area of east London to soak up the show's many highlights... Watch the footage.
Win in our September giveaway
Sheffield-based design studio, Psalt Design, is giving away one of its eye-catching fishbowls, retailing at £295 and reminiscent of a drop of water just about to run over the edge. It's like FInding Nemo but in the Twilight Zone!
Weird, Wonderful and Wacky
Pamela Buxton
So many exhibitions seem overstretched and thin. In contrast the Royal Academy’s diminutive Weird, the Wacky and the Wonderful display feels like a fertile subject crying out for further treatment in a bigger space...
So many exhibitions seem overstretched and thin. In contrast the Royal Academy’s diminutive Weird, the Wacky and the Wonderful display feels like a fertile subject crying out for further treatment in a bigger space...
Letter from Helsinki
Pamela Buxton
London’s not the only city with the 2012 suffix. Helsinki is World Design Capital 2012 – an accolade, given for accomplishment in design, which anyone who spends even just a few short days in the city will agree is an excellent fit...
London’s not the only city with the 2012 suffix. Helsinki is World Design Capital 2012 – an accolade, given for accomplishment in design, which anyone who spends even just a few short days in the city will agree is an excellent fit...
Hard Landscaping
Eleanor Young
Public spaces are hard. Argent’s new Granary Square in London’s King’s Cross designed by Townshend Landscape Architects shows some of the problems...
Public spaces are hard. Argent’s new Granary Square in London’s King’s Cross designed by Townshend Landscape Architects shows some of the problems...
Inadequate housing, period
Eleanor Young
Period features’ is a much used phrase in estate agent speak. Yes, ‘period features’ are selling points. But it turns out that what people are longing for is not architraves and ceiling roses but the generous windows, large rooms and high ceilings...
Period features’ is a much used phrase in estate agent speak. Yes, ‘period features’ are selling points. But it turns out that what people are longing for is not architraves and ceiling roses but the generous windows, large rooms and high ceilings...
Climb the Titanic
Eleanor Young
Eric Kuhne’s design for the Titanic Belfast rises to the height of the deck of the long sunk ship and, inside, there is the grand first class staircase immortalized in James Cameron’s movie. Installing a ‘piece’ of the ship seems an obvious move. But it was no such thing...
Eric Kuhne’s design for the Titanic Belfast rises to the height of the deck of the long sunk ship and, inside, there is the grand first class staircase immortalized in James Cameron’s movie. Installing a ‘piece’ of the ship seems an obvious move. But it was no such thing...
Fascinator
Eleanor Young
One hundred days to the Olympics? Can it be still so far away?
One hundred days to the Olympics? Can it be still so far away?
Who is my neighbour?
Jan-Carlos Kucharek
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s new report on sustainable urban neighbourhoods was launched at the end of last month at the RICS HQ, facing the Houses of Parliament. Stage and hall were packed, but wasn’t it just preaching to the converted?
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s new report on sustainable urban neighbourhoods was launched at the end of last month at the RICS HQ, facing the Houses of Parliament. Stage and hall were packed, but wasn’t it just preaching to the converted?
Torch bearer
Gymnast in the 1972 Munich Olympics Yvonne Arnold took her skills to Bexley where, with her husband, she set up the Europa Gym with dance, boxing and martial arts...
Hermann Hertzberger Gold Medal lecture
With the expectant audience at the RIBA’s Jarvis Hall sitting in front of the Jarvis Hall’s computer controlled projection screen, waiting to hear the 2012 Gold Medal recipient Hermann Hertzberger’s Gold Medal lecture...
Attitudes to low carbon homes
Eleanor Young
As debate rages over methods of assessing and labeling sustainability the NHBC Foundation has asked the views of industry and occupiers...
As debate rages over methods of assessing and labeling sustainability the NHBC Foundation has asked the views of industry and occupiers...
Design Museum
Eleanor Young
The Design Museum has revealed its £80 million plans for the grade 2* listed Commonwealth Institute...
The Design Museum has revealed its £80 million plans for the grade 2* listed Commonwealth Institute...
Box of delights
Clad in golden shingles and sparkly bricks in honour of its position on Blackpool’s Golden Mile, designed with a tall window to frame the Blackpool Tower itself, this is a squatter rival tower, dubbed the “Tower of Love”...
A feed-in pushmi pullyu
Jan-Carlos Kucharek
The latest figures on solar energy make for painful reading. Since the coalition government’s decision to cut feed-in tariffs by over half after December 12th 2011, solar electricity installation has all but collapsed in the UK...
The latest figures on solar energy make for painful reading. Since the coalition government’s decision to cut feed-in tariffs by over half after December 12th 2011, solar electricity installation has all but collapsed in the UK...
Civic Trust Awards
The Civic Trust Awards shortlist has brought out the best and worthiest buildings and projects.
Drawing in the City
Jan-Carlos Kucharek
A wrong turn has raised £82,000 for charity at the 10x10 ‘Drawing in the City’ event, an ‘art by architects’ auction that took place last week at London’s German Gymnasium for UK Development and disaster relief charity Article 25...
A wrong turn has raised £82,000 for charity at the 10x10 ‘Drawing in the City’ event, an ‘art by architects’ auction that took place last week at London’s German Gymnasium for UK Development and disaster relief charity Article 25...
A brave new world - RIBA President’s Medals 2011
Silver Medal winner Kibwe Tavares stole the show at the presentation of the RIBA Presidents’ Medals last night. His Robots of Brixton Part 2 project has already proved a hit on YouTube and Vimeo for its animation elemen...
Housing help?
Eleanor Young
A new housing strategy for England has pulled together a plethora of announcements on planning, development, mortgage finance and housing benefit...
A new housing strategy for England has pulled together a plethora of announcements on planning, development, mortgage finance and housing benefit...
From Palace to Palazzo
Hugh Pearman
When opened in 1915 by the Lyons organisation, London’s Regent Palace Hotel, just north of Piccadilly Circus, was Europe’s largest...
When opened in 1915 by the Lyons organisation, London’s Regent Palace Hotel, just north of Piccadilly Circus, was Europe’s largest...
Pavilion of Protest
Robert Pike reports on the architecture student creative protest at the RIBA’s Florence Hall (until November 15)...
OMA: Show and (don’t) tell
Jan-Carlos Kucharek
The new OMA ‘Progress’ show, documenting the last twenty years output by the now world-famous architectural firm is full of some big gestures, but none so big as the main move they made to open the never before opened west entrance of the art gallery at level three...
The new OMA ‘Progress’ show, documenting the last twenty years output by the now world-famous architectural firm is full of some big gestures, but none so big as the main move they made to open the never before opened west entrance of the art gallery at level three...
Facade to flame
Eleanor Young
Krzystof Wodiczko is professor of art, design and the public domain at the Graduate School of Design in Harvard. But, more than that, he is an artist of the city...
Krzystof Wodiczko is professor of art, design and the public domain at the Graduate School of Design in Harvard. But, more than that, he is an artist of the city...
The new Central St. Martins
Words: Hugh Pearman
Photos: Hufton+Crow
The King’s Cross Railway Lands have been slated for redevelopment for at least a quarter century. And finally - what’s this? The former badlands are suddenly inhabited with the gorgeous peacock students of the famous...
Photos: Hufton+Crow
The King’s Cross Railway Lands have been slated for redevelopment for at least a quarter century. And finally - what’s this? The former badlands are suddenly inhabited with the gorgeous peacock students of the famous...
Galloping Nouvel
Across the river from Manhattan in DUMBO, Brooklyn is a new attraction...
Golden horn
Carlos Kucharek
For a city that was based around the orthogonal grid of a Roman garrison town, my first question would be why architect Rafael Viñoly chose a spiral form for his Colchester Visual Arts Centre...
For a city that was based around the orthogonal grid of a Roman garrison town, my first question would be why architect Rafael Viñoly chose a spiral form for his Colchester Visual Arts Centre...
2012 legacy design chief
Eleanor Young
Kathryn Firth has joined the Olympic Park Legacy Company as chief of design. Eleanor Young spoke to her about how she plans to influence the design there...
Kathryn Firth has joined the Olympic Park Legacy Company as chief of design. Eleanor Young spoke to her about how she plans to influence the design there...
Poster pediments and post modernism
Eleanor Young.
Opening this weekend the Postmodernism show at the V&A is likely to attract more attention than its recent show on the Aesthetic movement but probably fewer visitors...
Opening this weekend the Postmodernism show at the V&A is likely to attract more attention than its recent show on the Aesthetic movement but probably fewer visitors...
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