ARCHIVE EXHIBITIONS
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Exhibition: Tuesday 30 January – Saturday 7 April
How should we build to protect the future of the planet? What
can we learn from recent sustainable housing developments? And
what is it really like to live in an eco house?
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Exhibition: Tuesday 30 January – Saturday 7 April
Few of us are able to build our dream ‘eco home’
from scratch – but in fact, renovating an existing property
can be an even more sustainable solution.
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Exhibition: Tuesday 4 December - Sunday 28 January
The Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World explores
our changing relationship to Nature through the Arts. Architects
Harris McMillan adapted a 40 year-old wooden shed on a tiny budget,
from design to finished space.
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Jewellery Exhibition: Friday 1 December – Wednesday
28 February
Cindy’s beautiful and innovative jewellery combines silver
and 18 carat gold.
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Jewellery Exhibition: Tuesday 9 January – Wednesday
28 February
Jane’s enamelled silver jewellery is inspired by 1950’s
textile prints.
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Friday 13 October – Wednesday 28 February
Kathie’s work explores ways of combining colour and translucency
in polyester resin.
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Tuesday 5 September – Wednesday 28 February
Alys’s beautiful illustrations have been snapped up by
Habitat and adorn the pages of Elle to name a few. Now you can
wear a little of this magic upon your sleeve with her range of
felt brooches.
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Exhibition: Monday 4 December – Sunday 21 January
2007
An airport, a children's hospital and a private house were among
the six buildings on this year’s shortlist for The RIBA
Stirling Prize, the UK’s most prestigious architectural
prize.
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YEARS OF THE ARCHITECTURE CENTRE
Exhibition: Saturday 14 October – Sunday 26 November
2006
The history of The Architecture Centre – how it all began,
our favourite projects, and what we have achieved, as well as
the national and international architecture and built environment
centres movement.
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Exhibition: Tuesday 1 August – Sunday 15 September
This exhibition shows how Urban Splash with Acanthus Ferguson
Mann propose to transform Imperial House, Hartcliffe, and looks
at the wider aspects of regeneration in that part of South Bristol.
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 URBAN
DOCUMENTS
Exhibition: Tuesday 18 July – Sunday 27 August
Urban Documents, by photographer Stephen Monger, explores the
way buildings have evolved and changed over time.
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Tuesday 1 August – Sunday 17 September
'By playing with materials, I seek to reflect what I see in the
natural world around me' Kayo Saito.
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Exhibition: Tuesday 18 - Sunday 30 July
Several creative design workshops with pupils from the three
BSF Schools in Bristol are happening during Architecture Week.
Examples of pupils’ work constructed during the workshops
will be exhibited.
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Jewellery Exhibition: Tuesday 4 July – Sunday 3
September
Joanna’s silver and glass button jewellery is inspired
by a love of the familiar and the nearly new and the treasure
trove world of the charity shop.
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Jewellery Exhibition: Thursday 1 June – Sunday
16 July
Sarah Lindsay’s innovative and beautiful jewellery is made
from plastic off-cuts that have been heat-pressed, to make a colourful
and lightweight new material.
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 PLATFORM
Event: Friday 16 June - Sunday 15 July
The game board is the City, the game is a journey. You will have
a Platform, a model of an architectural structure and a map. Place
that Platform as near to a map grid intersection point as possible.
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Exhibition: Friday 16 June - Sunday 9 July
Outlook is a site-specific installation for the Architecture
Centre gallery which by ‘interfering’ with the space
and its function, focuses on how people navigate a room in order
to look outside.
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 EDEN
GROVE
Exhibition: Tuesday 30 May - Sunday 9 July
Bristol Cancer Help Centre is building a new home to provide
a calm and healing environment for people with cancer and those
close to them.
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Jewellery Exhibition: Tuesday 9 May – Sunday 4
June
Angela Fung designs kinetic jewellery using innovative technology
and industrial materials combined with semi-precious stones and
other precious materials.
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Jewellery Exhibition: Tuesday 9 May – Sunday 4
June
Sarah’s ‘Light Constructions’ range of jewellery
explores light, space, absence and transparency, using a new type
of plant cellulose based 'eco' resin.
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Exhibition: Saturday 6 May – Sunday 28 May
In January, Brunel 200 launched a search for ideas to make Bristol
an even better place. This exhibition presents the 200 best Ideas
for Bristol, exploring all aspects of the city and the way Bristolians
live.
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 JOINEDUPDESIGNFORSCHOOLS
Exhibition: Thursday 16 March - Tuesday 25 April
joinedupdesignforschools joins client teams of pupils with the
UK's leading design practices to provide solutions for practical
improvements in schools and highlight the benefits of a partnership
between the design industry and education.
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Exhibition: Tuesday 4 April – Sunday 30 April
Bristol is one of the pathfinder authorities for the flagship
national ‘Building Schools for the Future’ programme.
This exhibition shows a selection of plans for the proposed new
schools.
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Jewellery Exhibition: Tuesday 4 April – Sunday
7 May
Rhiannon uses a variety of polypropylene and moulded plastics
to produce jewellery which celebrates the translucent colours
and pliability of this non-precious material. Her pieces are built
from layers of plastic interlaid with gilt papers and laminated
sheets.
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Jewellery Exhibition: Wednesday 1 February – Sunday
7 May
Karen Welsh is a contemporary ceramicist. Her fine bone china
and silver jewellery is created by using traditional methods often
partnered with new technologies.
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Jewellery Exhibition: Wednesday 1 March – Sunday
7 May
‘I combine cold enamel, heat-formed acrylic, nylon thread
and corrugated silver to recreate the vibrant colours and textures
found in my source material.’
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Jewellery Exhibition: Wednesday 1 March – Sunday
7 May
Jill’s jewellery is inspired by a lifelong love of flowers.
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Jewellery Exhibition: Wednesday 1 February – Tuesday
28 February
Rachel specialises in tactile jewellery made from a combination
of polyester resin, aluminium and silicon rubber.
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Exhibition: Tuesday 31 January - Sunday 5 March
The 21,500m2 University of Bath Sports Training Village, home
of the English Institute of Sport, is one of four regional centres
which provide training facilities for the development of world
class athletes.
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Exhibition: Tuesday 28 February - Sunday 26 March
Part of the Brunel 200 celebrations, the Architecture Centre
will host the '200 Ideas for Bristol' exhibition in May. During
March we will be showing some of the previous ideas that have
been put forward.
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Exhibition: Tuesday 14 February - Sunday 26 February
The winning entries from the RICS South West Schools Competition
for the redevelopment of Redcliffe Wharf area by Geography A-level
students.
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Exhibition: Tuesday 17 January - Sunday 12 February
What makes some public spaces so pleasurable that people flock
to them and want to linger there?
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Exhibition: Tuesday 22 November – Sunday 22 January
Embassy Court, an icon of the Modern Movement, was once home
to Brighton’s glamorous and wealthy, but has now fallen
into a terrible state of disrepair. Stories High is a collaborative
exhibition between artist/writer Rowena Easton and photographer
Pete Jones.
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Exhibition: Tuesday 6 December – Sunday 15 January
Students from UWE have been asked to research, design and build
a geodesic dome to be exhibited at Arnolfini alongside the ‘Starting
at Zero: Black Mountain College 1933-57’ exhibition. Documentation
of this process traces the students’ progress through photography,
recording models and different manufacturing processes, and through
video.
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GREENPRINT:
DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING
ECO-RENOVATING
A BRISTOL HOUSE
CCANW’S
RE-CYCLED SHED
LAKE
SHORE
