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Exhibition

Shaping Space – Architectural Models Revealed

A collaboration between the V&A and the Building Centre

Until 28 Jan 2022

Exhibition

Londons – The Polycentric City, a photography exhibition by Mass Collective

A photography exhibition rejecting the single, monolithic view of the Capital in favour of a fragmentary, multifarious mosaic.

Until 4 Nov 2021

Drawing course

Build drawing skills: Urban Sketching

Mon 06 Sep 2021

Event

Shaping Space - Architectural Models Revealed exhibition curator tour for London Design Festival

Fri 24 Sep 2021, 1 - 1.30pm

Article

A few words on ‘The New Stone Age’ exhibition

Shortlisted for the 2021 Stirling Prize and described by the jury as an ‘astonishing architectural triumph’, 15 Clerkenwell Close was the starting point for our exhibition The New Stone Age.

Drawing course

Build drawing skills: Urban Sketching

Mon 06 Sep 2021

Event

Shaping Space - Architectural Models Revealed exhibition curator tour for London Design Festival

Fri 24 Sep 2021, 1 - 1.30pm

Article

A few words on ‘The New Stone Age’ exhibition

Shortlisted for the 2021 Stirling Prize and described by the jury as an ‘astonishing architectural triumph’, 15 Clerkenwell Close was the starting point for our exhibition The New Stone Age.

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Coffee with curves; Mizzi Studio's kiosks for the Royal Parks

The Wood Street Altarpiece: celebrating collective gardening, ancient ecosystems, and a community’s ‘joyful drama’

Catch-up on the retrofit 'Sustainability Sessions'

Sketching Perspective – learning by the book

The Tiny (cork) House – an interview with Nick Newman at U-Build

Share your models with the Shaping Space – Architectural Models Revealed programme

Building Centre joins built environment coalition for COP26

The £500 house – we look at 90 years of housing at the Building Centre

The 1930s search engine – we look at 90 years of information and technology

Building Centre takeover of House Block in Hackney with Studio Bark / U-Build

The valley of life and fossilised land – GUN Architects bring life back to arid land in Northern Chile

Colour’s comeback – Office S&M’s intangible building material

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