Welcome to Building Futures

This House Believes the Road to Recovery is Paved with…

Tuesday 16 February 2010, 6:00pm to 9:00pm, Surface Design Show, Business Design Centre

RIBA Building Futures with The Surface Design Show kicks off election year with an open discussion of the options ahead for business, governance, ecology and society. Chaired by the Imperial College’s Prof. David Fisk and featuring contributions from leading thinkers including former London Mayor Ken Livingstone, economist Will Hutton, engineer and technologist Mark Whitby and Director of the award winning muti-national architectural practice Brisac Gonzalez, Cécile Brisac.

This House Believes the Road to Recovery is Paved with…

Building Futures, the think tank at the RIBA, is looking for committed students or recent graduates with a keen interest in architecture to help us.

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facing up to rising sea levels

Facing Up To Rising Sea Levels is a companion to a wider programme of research on flooding carried out by the RIBA and the ICE. It is a think piece – designed to provoke longer-term thinking across a wide audience: from government, to policy-makers, to planners, to architects and engineers and to the general public.

Facing Up To Rising Sea Levels is accompanied by a Touring Exhibition starting at The Building Centre 6-29 January 2010, then moving to Portsmouth Cathedral on 15-27 February 2010 and finishing in Hull at ARC on 15-28 April.
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GROWING BY DEGREES!

30 March 2009

Building Futures launches its much anticipated report on the future of Universities and Cities. Edited and compiled by Eeva Berglund, this free publication features contributions and comment from some of the leading voices in the higher education sector and aims to investigate the future synergies between town and gown at a critical time in its development.

GROWING BY DEGREES

Building Happiness- Architecture to make you smile!

22 October 2008

Building Futures launches is much anticipated publication at whether architecture and the quality of our built environment can affect and determine our well being.

Edited by Jane Wernick, this collection of essays features contributions from recent Stirling Prize 2008 winner Keith Bradley, Richard Rogers, Will Alsop, Max Fordham, Martha Schwartz, Anthoney Gormley, Kirsty Wark, Deyan Sudjic and more.

BUILDING HAPPINESS