RIBApix.com reaches a landmark 50,000 photographs

One of our favourite sources for architectural photography, the Royal Institute of British Architect's Photographs Collection, is celebrating a landmark moment. Its online database, RIBApix.com, has this week reached a total of 50,000 images, making it an invaluable virtual resource for research and inspiration.
Well known for its documentations of architecture and the built environment, both in the UK and abroad, the RIBA archive also holds a number of rare drawings, engravings and written material. The full archive holds over 1.5 million images, more of which will soon be available on RIBApix.com, where prints of them are also available to buy.
Green Ash, Chiswick Mall, London (1934)
National Congress buildings, Eixo Monumental, Brasilia (1958)
Architect: Oscar Niemeyer
Photographer: Monica Pidgeon, 1962
Competition design for a restaurant, Festival of Britain Exhibition, South Bank, London (1951)
Architects: Christian Hamp and M. Barbara Price
Musicians’ uniforms for SS Canberra (1960)
Designers: Casson, Conder & Partners
Selecting fabrics at Heal’s, Tottenham Court Road, London
Photographer: John Maltby, 1956
T4, Barajas airport, Madrid (2006)
Architects: Richard Rogers Partnership
de Young Museum, San Francisco, California (2005)
Architects: Herzog & de Meuron
Design for a stand in D.H. Evans department store, Oxford Street, London (1949)
Architect: Stefan Buzas
Bere Heath, Dorset
Photographer: Edwin Smith, 1956
Pepys Estate, Deptford, London (1966)
Architects: GLC Department of Architecture & Civic Design
Photographer: Tony Ray-Jones, 1970
‘Gothic’ orchestra at Vauxhall Gardens, London
Artists: Thomas Rowlandson and A. C. Pugin, 1809
House at Bentley Wood, Halland, East Sussex (1938)
Architect: Serge Chermayeff
Claridge’s Hotel, Brook Street, London (1932)
Architect: Oswald P. Milne
Frost on a shed window, Saffron Walden
Photographer: Edwin Smith, 1966
The banks of the River Cam, Cambridge
Photographer: Edwin Smith, 1955
Design for a shop at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes, Paris 1925
Designer: Francis Jourdain
Staircase, 176-9 Street / 176-2 Street, Asmara (1944)
Architect: A. Bibolotti
Photographer: Edward Denison, 1990s
Penguin Pool, London Zoo, Regent’s Park, London (1934)
Architects: Lubetkin, Drake & Tecton
Credit: RIBA Library Photographs Collection
Sun-catch, Hillfield (House A), Whipsnade Zoo Estate (1936)
Architects: Lubetkin & Tecton
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Ellie Stathaki is the Architecture & Environment Director at Wallpaper*. She trained as an architect at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece and studied architectural history at the Bartlett in London. Now an established journalist, she has been a member of the Wallpaper* team since 2006, visiting buildings across the globe and interviewing leading architects such as Tadao Ando and Rem Koolhaas. Ellie has also taken part in judging panels, moderated events, curated shows and contributed in books, such as The Contemporary House (Thames & Hudson, 2018), Glenn Sestig Architecture Diary (2020) and House London (2022).
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