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.
RIBApix.com reaches a landmark 50,000 photographs
RIBApix.com reaches a landmark 50,000 photographs
House, Fiscavaig, Isle of Skye (2009)
Architects: Rural Design
Photographer: Jon-Marc Creaney
Credit: Jon-Marc Creaney / RIBA Library Photographs Collection
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
