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Online event

Forensic Architecture and Alison Killing on Digital Modelling and Human Rights investigations

Thu 20 Jan 2022, 6pm - 7.30pm

Celebrating 90 years

90for90

We have invited leading figures in Britain to select what to them represents the best examples of our nation’s built environment.

Exhibition

Shaping Space – Architectural Models Revealed

A collaboration between the V&A and the Building Centre

Until 5 Mar 2022

Exhibition

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

Mass Collective are back! Mapping out the capital from eight different perspectives

Until 5 Mar 2022

Workshop

New date: Building Bridges family workshop

We're back with a second bridge model making workshop with Webb Yates Engineers

Sat 12 Feb 2022, 2pm - 3.30pm

Exhibition

Shaping Space – Architectural Models Revealed

A collaboration between the V&A and the Building Centre

Until 5 Mar 2022

Exhibition

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

Mass Collective are back! Mapping out the capital from eight different perspectives

Until 5 Mar 2022

Workshop

New date: Building Bridges family workshop

We're back with a second bridge model making workshop with Webb Yates Engineers

Sat 12 Feb 2022, 2pm - 3.30pm

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Tirana - the European Youth Capital of 2022

Building Blocks for a Fun Palace

Edible architectural models - Baking the Colour Palace

'K' for Kit - from An Alphabet of Architectural Models

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

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