RIBApix.com reaches a landmark 50,000 photographs

Architecture / 8 Apr 2011 / By Ellie Stathaki

House, Fiscavaig, Isle of Skye (2009)

Architects: Rural Design

Photographer: Jon-Marc Creaney

Credit: Jon-Marc Creaney / RIBA Library Photographs Collection

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)

Photographers: Dell & Wainwright

Credit: Dell & Wainwright / RIBA Library Photographs Collection

National Congress buildings, Eixo Monumental, Brasilia (1958)

Architect: Oscar Niemeyer

Photographer: Monica Pidgeon, 1962

Credit: Monica Pidgeon / RIBA Library Photographs Collection

Competition design for a restaurant, Festival of Britain Exhibition, South Bank, London (1951)

Architects: Christian Hamp and M. Barbara Price

Credit: RIBA Library Drawings Collection

Musicians’ uniforms for SS Canberra (1960)

Designers: Casson, Conder & Partners

Credit: RIBA Library Drawings Collection

Selecting fabrics at Heal’s, Tottenham Court Road, London

Photographer: John Maltby, 1956

Credit: John Maltby / RIBA Library Photographs Collection

T4, Barajas airport, Madrid (2006)

Architects: Richard Rogers Partnership

Photographer: Duccio Malagamba

Credit: Duccio Malagamba / RIBA Library Photographs Collection

de Young Museum, San Francisco, California (2005)

Architects: Herzog & de Meuron

Photographer: Paolo Rosselli

Credit: Paolo Rosselli / RIBA Library Photographs Collection

Design for a stand in D.H. Evans department store, Oxford Street, London (1949)

Architect: Stefan Buzas

Credit: RIBA Library Drawings Collection

Bere Heath, Dorset

Photographer: Edwin Smith, 1956

Credit: Edwin Smith / RIBA Library Photographs Collection

Pepys Estate, Deptford, London (1966)

Architects: GLC Department of Architecture & Civic Design

Photographer: Tony Ray-Jones, 1970

Credit: Tony Ray-Jones / RIBA Library Photographs Collection

‘Gothic’ orchestra at Vauxhall Gardens, London

Artists: Thomas Rowlandson and A. C. Pugin, 1809

Credit: RIBA Library Books & Periodicals Collection

House at Bentley Wood, Halland, East Sussex (1938)

Architect: Serge Chermayeff

Photographers: Dell & Wainwright

Credit: Dell & Wainwright / RIBA Library Photographs Collection

Claridge’s Hotel, Brook Street, London (1932)

Architect: Oswald P. Milne

Photographers: Dell & Wainwright

Credit: Dell & Wainwright / RIBA Library Photographs Collection

Frost on a shed window, Saffron Walden

Photographer: Edwin Smith, 1966

Credit: Edwin Smith / RIBA Library Photographs Collection

The banks of the River Cam, Cambridge

Photographer: Edwin Smith, 1955

Credit: Edwin Smith / RIBA Library Photographs Collection

Design for a shop at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes, Paris 1925

Designer: Francis Jourdain

Credit: RIBA Library Books & Periodicals Collection

Staircase, 176-9 Street / 176-2 Street, Asmara (1944)

Architect: A. Bibolotti

Photographer: Edward Denison, 1990s

Credit: Edward Denison / RIBA Library Photographs Collection

Penguin Pool, London Zoo, Regent’s Park, London (1934)

Architects: Lubetkin, Drake & Tecton

Photographer: John Havinden

Credit: RIBA Library Photographs Collection

Sun-catch, Hillfield (House A), Whipsnade Zoo Estate (1936)

Architects: Lubetkin & Tecton

Photographers: Dell & Wainwright

Credit: Dell & Wainwright / RIBA Library Photographs Collection

RIBApix.com reaches a landmark 50,000 photographs

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