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🏆 The UK’s best new home – Six Columns by 31/44 Architects wins RIBA House of the Year 2024. Designed by Will Burges, Director of 31/44 Architects, as a family home for himself, his wife and two children, Six Columns cleverly occupies a tight plot in the leafy suburbs of Crystal Palace, South London. As the family occupy the building, they will continue to tinker with it, inside and out, allowing it to evolve to their changing needs over time. “Six Columns is a beautifully crafted family home that cleverly incorporates Brutalist references and creative flourishes while retaining a strong sense of suburban belonging. It shows what can be achieved when working with even the tightest of suburban sites, and its flexible, unfinished aesthetic offers a solution to futureproofed design: this is a home that can evolve with its occupants’ changing needs overtime. The generosity of space belies the limitations of this small garden plot. As we look for creative and practical solutions to the housing crisis, Six Columns offers a blueprint for bespoke urban infill development.” – Muyiwa Oki PRIBA, RIBA President ➡️ Watch the project film: https://ow.ly/seGA50Uj2Ru #HouseOfTheYear

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🎉Congratulations to Peter Clegg, Founding Partner at Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios (FCBStudios) who has been awarded an OBE in the 2025 New Year's Honours in recognition of his services to architecture.

RIBA urges exemption for Level 7 apprenticeships from funding reforms: Joint statement highlights apprenticeships’ role in addressing skills shortages and meeting government growth targets #architecture #news

Architectural research has a key role in maintaining a competitive edge. RIBA President Muyiwa Oki PRIBA brings together architects and educators Sarah Wigglesworth and Tom Emerson with the leading voice in research funding, Christopher Smith, to discuss the future of architectural research: https://ow.ly/1RBv50Uukhs

Happy New Year! 🎆 For 20 years, London's South Bank has been the backdrop to some of the UK's biggest NYE celebrations. The stretch of river owes many of its architectural centrepieces to the legacy of the 1951 Festival of Britain, a national exhibition that catalysed the development of the Southbank Centre. In this 1951 photo by Reginald Hugo De Burgh Galwey from the #RIBACollections, diners sit on the terrace of the South Bank restaurant designed by Leonard Manasseh. The chairs are the 'Antelope' model designed by Ernest Race especially for the festival. 🔎 Want to find out more about architectural history? Our collections are the place to start: https://ow.ly/aT4X50UukjU 📌 After the festive period, RIBA will reopen at 8am on Thursday 2 January 2025. See you after the break!

Merry Christmas, and Happy Hanukkah to everyone celebrating! ✨ From the RIBA Collections, this card was sent from the architect Basil Spence and his family to the (fittingly-named) Noel Musgrave in 1951. Musgrave was editor of the Architect's Journal, and our archives contain dozens of his Christmas cards from the profession's movers and shakers - many of them handmade, like this one. Basil Spence is revealed behind the card's fold-out door. He had recently scooped the commission for Coventry Cathedral and can be seen fretting about the saints to be depicted in its west window, which was designed by the artist John Hutton and took over 10 years to finish. 🔎 Want to find out more about architectural history? Our collections are the place to start: https://ow.ly/BwNU50Uu6BK 📌 After the festive period, RIBA will reopen at 8am on Thursday 2 January 2025. See you after the break!

Season’s Greetings! 🎄 As 2024 draws to a close, we want to thank you for being part of RIBA and for supporting our collective work to shape a better built environment. Over the festive period, RIBA will close at 5pm on Tuesday 24 December 2024 and reopen at 8am on Thursday 2 January 2025. ➡️ Check our opening hours in London and Liverpool to plan your visit: https://ow.ly/4cZV50UujRV 📷 Hidcote Manor Gardens, Chipping Campden: the Stilt Garden under snow by Martin Charles / #RIBACollections

Join us at MIPIM 2025 in Cannes, France 🌎 We’re excited to invite Chartered Practices to join us at MIPIM, the world's leading real estate event, from 11 to 14 March 2025. MIPIM, brings together over 20,000 exhibitors, city leaders, investors and forward thinkers from 90 countries. 📌 Take advantage of our early bird offer and save 20% when you express your interest before 20 January 2025: https://ow.ly/JeXa50Uv5F1 #RIBAatMIPIM #MIPIM2025

Our top five professional features for 2024 ⬇️ From fee scales to, yes, building regulations, this year’s professional features continue to provide guidance and best practice solutions: https://ow.ly/w2qQ50UujR7