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Collecting models, a conversation with Drawing Matter, RIBA and the V&A

Tue 25 Jan 2022, 6pm - 7pm

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

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

Event

The most photographed barn in America with Sam Jacob

Thu 24 Feb 2022, 6pm - 7.30pm

Event video

To Build or Not to Build? Model making in practice with Feilden Fowles and Stanton Williams

Thu 13 Jan 2022, 6pm – 7pm

Article

Ellie Sampson on model making and the methods behind the magic of minatures

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

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

Event

The most photographed barn in America with Sam Jacob

Thu 24 Feb 2022, 6pm - 7.30pm

Event video

To Build or Not to Build? Model making in practice with Feilden Fowles and Stanton Williams

Thu 13 Jan 2022, 6pm – 7pm

Article

Ellie Sampson on model making and the methods behind the magic of minatures

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Ellie Sampson on model making and the methods behind the magic of minatures

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

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