ARCHITECTURE SITES

RIBA 

www.architecture.com

RIBA NW                                                                

www.ribanw.org.uk

Practice Registery

www.ribafind.org

Architects Registration Board

www.arb.org.uk

Architecture Foundation
www.architecturefoundation.org.uk
The Architecture Foundation aims to bridge the gap between decision makers, design professionals and the public. The AF encourages public participation and all public activities are free, which take place both in venues across Britain and abroad.

Architecture Link
www.architecturelink.org.uk
Run by London Open House, provides general information on architecture, listing useful books and education resources. Also lists contact details for architecture centres and organisations in the UK, Europe and Worldwide.

Architecture Week
www.architectureweek.org.uk
Website of this annual, nationwide event. Information on what’s planned for this year as well as how to get involved, past event details and thought provoking articles.

CABE Library
www.cabe.org.uk/library
Gives free access to a wide range of detailed information, including some images on some of the UK's best buildings and public spaces.

Great Buildings
www.greatbuildings.com
Documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects in a searchable database, giving brief details and a list of further reading on each.

Architects Council of Europe

www.ace-cae.org/

Established in 1990, the Architects' Council of Europe is the representative body for the architectural profession in the European Union. Its membership is drawn from national registration and professional architectural organisations from most of the EU Member States

CABE: Commission for Architecture & Built Environment                                                                     

www.cabe.org.uk

CUBE: Centre for Understanding the Built Environment                                                                   

www.cube.org.uk

ARCHI-EUROPE

www.archi-europe.com

The fast growing free portal site for all European Architects that can help you find an architect and to visualize their portfolio

Architects Today

www.architectstoday.net

The gateway to all resources for architects, surveyors, commercial companies, planners and other professionals in building and construction industry

Archinet

www.archinet.co.uk

Looking for architecture news, building reviews and links to famous architects, designers and anyone who's anyone in architecture, property and construction?

Architecture Now

www.taschen.com

The who's who of today's most innovative architects

Architects Journal

www.ajplus.co.uk

Based on The Architects’ Journal magazine, it provides vital information including real-time news; news archive; company database and a building product directory.

Creative Spaces

www.creativespaces.org.uk

Is a toolkit of methods and stories from The Architecture Foundation Roadshow (1998 and 2000 )which brought together residents and designers to think creatively about the future of local sites.

Green Space

www.green-space.org.uk

GreenSpace is a not-for-profit organisation set up to help those committed to the planning, design, management and use of public parks and open spaces.

Groundwork

www.groundwork.org.uk/

Groundwork is a leading environmental regeneration charity making sustainable development a reality in many of the UK's poorest communities.

Home Zones

www.homezones.org/

The Home Zones concept is an attempt to strike a balance between vehicular traffic and everyone else who uses the street, the pedestrians, cyclists, business people and residents.

Projects for Public Spaces(PPS)

www.pps.org/

PPS is a non-profit organisation dedicated to creating and sustaining public places that build communities.

Quest

www.quest-net.org/

Quest is the national agency specialising in using communication tools for community development. Nationally, they use these tools to link-up communities to learn from each other. Locally, they support people to use the tools in their own community.

Scarman Trust

www.thescarmantrust.org/

The Scarman Trust is a national charity committed to helping citizens bring about change in their community, in the way that they want.

The Glass House

www.theglasshouse.org.uk/

The Glass House offers design courses – through Trafford Hall – with advice and support to tenants, residents and professionals working in neighbourhoods undergoing change and renewal.

Trafford Hall

www.traffordhall.com/

Trafford Hall in Cheshire, is the home of the National Tenants Resource Centre, a registered charity,  offering training and support to people living and working in disadvantaged communities in the UK, to develop their skills, confidence and capacity to tackle problems and reverse poor conditions.

ART IN THE PUBLIC REALM LINKS

GENERAL ART SITES 

Arts Council England  

www.artscouncil.org.uk

Liverpool & Manchester Design Initiative                      

www.designinit.org.uk

Design Bank  

www.designbank.org.uk

AXIS general UK artist database                       

www.axisartists.org.uk

Artist Newsletter                                                    

www.anweb.co.uk

Inst. of International Visual Arts                             

www.iniva.org    

Early Arts  arts education resource for the NW      

www.earlyarts.co.uk                                                         

PUBLIC ART SITES

Public Art Northwest
www.publicartnorthwest.org.uk 

Commissions North
www.commissionsnorth.org 

Public Art South West
www.publicartonline.org.uk

Commissions in the Environment
www.citeuk.org  

European portal on public art 
www.art-public.com                       

INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC ART EXEMLARS

Irwell Sculpture Trail                              
www.irwellsculpturetrail.co.uk  

Great Promenade Show 
www.greatpromenadeshow.co.uk 

Northern Quarter Manchester   
www.the-art-dept.co.uk

Tern Project                      
www.tern.org.uk  

Blackburn Cultural String  
www.culturalstring.blackburnworld.com  

Sheepfolds
www.sheepfolds.org/ 

Panopticons
www.panopticons.uk.net 

Creative Time – New York
www.creativetime.org 

Brecknock Consulting - Australia
www.brecknockconsulting.com.au 

CBK Centrum Beeldende Kunst Rotterdam
www.cbk.rotterdam.nl 

Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
http://www.cccb.org/eng/cccb.htm

Public Art Observatory - Barcelona
www.ub.es/escult/1.htm 

OTHER PUBLIC ART CONSULTANCIES

Public Art Development Trust
www.padt.org.uk

Arts UK Ltd
www.arts-uk.com  

RKL Consultants                        
www.rkl-consultants.org.uk

Cardiff Bay Arts Trust:    
www.cbat.co.uk

Artangel                                                                                    
www.artangel.org.uk

Modus Operandi:                       
www.modusoperandi-art.com

Locus+                                                                         
www.locusplus.org.uk

Public - Arts
www.public-arts.co.uk  

Working pArts                                                   
www.working-parts.com  

Artpoint Trust                                                                 
www.artpoint-trust.org.uk

Christian Barnes Associates                   
www.christianbarnes.co.uk

General Public Agency                           
www.generalpublicagency.com 

Art in Partnership                                                                       
www.art-in-partnership.org.uk

Freeform
www.freeform.org.uk 

Cathy Newbery
www.cathynewbery.co.uk