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Eye Line is the RIBA Journal competition for the depiction of architecture. One of our 120th year initiatives, it’s very simple: we want to find the best representations of a building design or concept through visual means. Entries should be two-dimensional – we will not accept models or video, nor will we consider photographs of models – but within that constraint we will judge all methods and media equally. Deadline 10 June. Find out more
Eye Line is the RIBA Journal competition for the depiction of architecture. One of our 120th year initiatives, it’s very simple: we want to find the best representations of a building design or concept through visual means. Entries should be two-dimensional – we will not accept models or video, nor will we consider photographs of models – but within that constraint we will judge all methods and media equally. Deadline 10 June. Find out more
Charles Correa: dirty work but someone's got to do it
17th May 2013 Jan-Carlos Kucharek It was a moment of interesting cultural awkwardness. Charles Correa, talking at the RIBA’s Florence Hall, opening the ‘Out of India’ exhibition commemorating his gift of 6,000 drawings to the Drawings Collection had spent the last hour taking us through a potted history of his oeuvre and was now answering questions from the floor.
Happy Talk, Maggies Centre | Eleanor Young
17th May 2013 Eleanor Young ‘It is so moral, so British, to claim the disk roof is at that angle for PVs not for the beauty of it.’ So said Charles Jencks co-founder of Maggies’ to Ted Cullinan, the architect of the latest Maggies Centre in Newcastle...
British Museum extension | Hugh Pearman
15th May 2013 Hugh Pearman The last time I took a close look at progress on the British Museum’s new £135m extension, it was 2011, and just a great big L-shaped hole in the ground...
In splendid isolation
17th April 2013 Jan-Carlos Kucharek Looking at Rachel Whiteread’s latest show, you can understand author Harper Lee’s dilemma. There she was with her 1960 book ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, a work so singular and in touch with the zeitgeist...
Tamed by time | ICA
16th April 2013 Hugh Pearman This is a startlingly small exhibition. So small, that this review will have no difficulty describing every key work on display. There are just five, plus two glass cases, and a large wall photo.
Digging deep: RIBAJ visits the reopened €375m Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
12th April 2013 Hugh Pearman The Rijksmuseum has reopened after a rebuilding programme lasting over a decade, and costing €375m. For that time and money, you expect to find a marvel. It’s not quite that, but it’s good.
Going round the Benz
22nd March 2013 Jan-Carlos Kucharek My twin sisters used to be pen pals with a pair of Stuttgart twins by the name of Franziska and Martina Zehrer- and it was they who convinced me on a visit one year that everyone in Stuttgart drove a Mercedes...
Tiger Territory | London Zoo
22nd March 2013 Eleanor Young Visiting London Zoo I have always found the big cats the most disappointing. Sleeping or walking rather slowly in the distance, they in no way live up to their starring roles on an Attenborough programme...
Light work
22nd March 2013 Eleanor Young It might not sparkle quite as much as a Christmas tree, but there are lessons on life at the Hayward Gallery's Light Show...
A wider critique
7th February 2013 Eleanor Young The President’s Medals crit with Royal Gold Medallist Peter Zumthor was a very grown up affair...
Shipshape and Bristol fashion
25th January 2013 Eleanor Young George Ferguson, architect, entrepreneur and Mayor of Bristol since late last year has been laying out his vision for reshaping the city...
Show me the Manet
25th January 2013 Hugh Pearman Realist or proto-Impressionist? Manet, the subject of the Royal Academy’s latest blockbuster show, was both of those. Also a fair imitator of the Old Master style when he wanted...
From hard house to my house
25th January 2013 Jan-Carlos Kucharek From the far end of the hall where I entered, I couldn’t quite see, but there was no avoiding the resonant booming of what sounded like Kodo drumming...
The View from The Shard: Old Streets, New Perspectives
11th January 2013 Jan-Carlos Kucharek Looking out from the Shard’s new viewing gallery at the city of London 244m below, I wonder what artist Wenceslaus Hollar would have made of it...
Piano Man
11th January 2013 Hugh Pearman There aren’t many people who could have commandeered the View From the Shard for a private party weeks before it opened to the public, but Williams Matthews is a special case...
Too good to lose
13th December 2012 Hugh Pearman On Monday (December 17) the city council will vote on whether to demolish it. There has been a chorus of dismay, from concerned local residents through to national critics....
A London Shed
13th Dec 2012 Eleanor Young Basil Spence, BDP, Fielden Clegg Bradley Studios; there is a long history of architectural firms established in regional bases deciding that they have to be in London to crack the city...
Interview with Ed Vaizey
29th Nov 2012 Hugh Pearman Culture minister Ed Vaizey, who in the autumn reshuffle took on responsibility for architecture, got a good press with his first visible act in this...
The Bristol challenge
18th Oct 2012 Eleanor Young With the election for the first mayor of Bristol just weeks away the Construction Industry Council are challenging candidates to say what they want for the city and its built environment...
Stirling stuff
18th Oct 2012 Hugh Pearman It's all about the mood of the room, the Stirling Prize ceremony. Down the years there have been good nights and bad nights...
Work of art?
18th Oct 2012 Eleanor Young Farshid Moussavi has completed her first building in the US, in Ohio. The dramatic $18.7m (£11.6m) ‘gem’ of the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland opened in mid October...
It's show time!
21st Sept 2012 Jan-Carlos Kucharek I don't know if it's the Olympics, but there is a definite sense that London is design a-buzz, if the crowds at the three events I attended are anything to go by...
Porthmeor Studios
12th Sept 2012 Eleanor Young We leave the Atlantic surf and body borders of the summer beach to go down into the cellars. Moments away from the St Ives tourists on the sand is Porthmeor Studios...
Walthamstow Carnivalesque
12th Sept 2012 Hugh Pearman
I last visited Walthamstow in 1980, and only went there then because the now-defunct Walthamstow Building Society (slogan: “Don’t Blow it, WalthamStow It”) was the only lender who’d give me a mortgage on my first flat...
I last visited Walthamstow in 1980, and only went there then because the now-defunct Walthamstow Building Society (slogan: “Don’t Blow it, WalthamStow It”) was the only lender who’d give me a mortgage on my first flat...
The Beaney
12th Sept 2012 Eleanor Young
A huge leaded bay window, mosaic panels, a pair of griffins above the stone steps. This is the familiar entrance of Canterbury’s town gallery and library, better known as The Beaney Institute and Royal Museum...
A huge leaded bay window, mosaic panels, a pair of griffins above the stone steps. This is the familiar entrance of Canterbury’s town gallery and library, better known as The Beaney Institute and Royal Museum...
Venice Architecture Biennale
30th Aug 2012 Hugh Pearman
If you’ve never been to one, know this: the Venice Architecture Biennale is not a single thing, even though it is always given a single theme...
If you’ve never been to one, know this: the Venice Architecture Biennale is not a single thing, even though it is always given a single theme...
Drinks at the AA
14th Jun 2012 Jan-Carlos Kucharek
Despite having been a Bartlett boy, and with fond memories of its workshop courtyard turned into a great moshpit for the summer show, I’ve always had an enduring preference for the AA one...
Despite having been a Bartlett boy, and with fond memories of its workshop courtyard turned into a great moshpit for the summer show, I’ve always had an enduring preference for the AA one...
Where Europe meets Asia
14th Jun 2012 Hugh Pearman
Years ago I went to Astana, capital of Kazakhstan, to see Foster and ...
Years ago I went to Astana, capital of Kazakhstan, to see Foster and ...
Protect and survive
18th May 2012 Jan-Carlos Kucharek
The 2008 Stirling Prize winner, Accordia, is looking good. The 9 ...
The 2008 Stirling Prize winner, Accordia, is looking good. The 9 ...
The world of Pugin
18th May 2012 Hugh Pearman
In this, the bicentenary of the birth of the great Gothic Revivalist ...
In this, the bicentenary of the birth of the great Gothic Revivalist ...
Altered States
18th Apr 2012 Jan-Carlos Kucharek
Last week, on the day that architects Make submitted their planning ...
Last week, on the day that architects Make submitted their planning ...
China Syndrome
18th Apr 2012 Hugh Pearman
The reaction from the audience was pretty well uniform: blimey, why ...
The reaction from the audience was pretty well uniform: blimey, why ...
Rockin’ the Square
7th Mar 2012 Hugh Pearman
The Fourth Plinth on Trafalgar Square in London is the one which was ...
The Fourth Plinth on Trafalgar Square in London is the one which was ...
High performer
7th Mar 2012 Eleanor Young
It may be grim outside today but a summer of orchestras and proms in ...
It may be grim outside today but a summer of orchestras and proms in ...
The Blue Peter Garden
16th Feb 2012 Hugh Pearman
‘Blue’. ‘Peter’. ‘Garden’. Individually, each of those words makes ...
‘Blue’. ‘Peter’. ‘Garden’. Individually, each of those words makes ...
It’s another Wold
19th Jan 2012 Hugh Pearman
I love the wolds of East Yorkshire. Gently rolling uplands, fields ...
I love the wolds of East Yorkshire. Gently rolling uplands, fields ...
Room for London
12th Jan 2012 Hugh Pearman
A holiday cottage on top of London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall? In the ...
A holiday cottage on top of London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall? In the ...
To list or not to list?
6th Jan 2012 Hugh Pearman
As widely predicted, Richard Rogers’ Lloyd’s of London building was ...
As widely predicted, Richard Rogers’ Lloyd’s of London building was ...
A ditch in time
6th Jan 2012 Eleanor Young
Take one Roman Wall, a Norman castle and a Victorian museum and you ...
Take one Roman Wall, a Norman castle and a Victorian museum and you ...
Boxing not so clever
7th Dec 2011 Hugh Pearman
If a shop ‘pops up’ then one imagines it will pop down again pretty ...
If a shop ‘pops up’ then one imagines it will pop down again pretty ...
Icon alert! Piers Gough’s new Canada Water library
7th Dec 2011 Hugh Pearman
As widely predicted, Richard Rogers’ Lloyd’s of London building was ...
As widely predicted, Richard Rogers’ Lloyd’s of London building was ...
Garden City?
25th Nov 2011 Jan-Carlos Kucharek
And so the debate over the Aberdeen City Garden project rumbles on ...
And so the debate over the Aberdeen City Garden project rumbles on ...
Masterpiece revealed
23rd Sep 2011 Hugh Pearman
I never knew this place existed. Or rather, I’d seen its Gothic ...
I never knew this place existed. Or rather, I’d seen its Gothic ...
Clerkenwell Design Week
12th Jul 2011 Jan-Carlos Kucharek
Ensconced on the fourth floor in the RIBA Journal’s offices, slap ...
Ensconced on the fourth floor in the RIBA Journal’s offices, slap ...
Two waterside museums
20th Jun 2011 Hugh Pearman
To go in the space of a week from Zaha’s Riverside Museum in ...
To go in the space of a week from Zaha’s Riverside Museum in ...
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