RIBA Launch How We Built Britain
Posted on Monday 4th June 2007
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) launched a major online architecture exhibition on 3rd June 2007 to complement the BBC’s new flagship arts series, How We Built Britain. The How We Built Britain (HWBB) exhibition explores a thousand years of British architecture through a dedicated website featuring a huge gallery of architecture from all areas of Britain.
The big build
The HWBB website has been built using the Contensis R4 Web Content Management System and is a small taster of the full RIBA website due to launch later this year.
Empowering creativity
The website, output to XHMTL standards, features ultra-sharp design by Nameless and includes an intelligent 'building block' layout and a set of standardised designs, both of which take into account the importance of accessibility, readability and functionality.
The Contensis CMS has provided the RIBA development team with a wealth of static and dynamic templates to complement this - empowering their creative streak when needed, but always refining the content to set layouts and Metadata categorisation. The combination of clean design, intelligent content management and powerful templating has allowed for exploration of the design guidelines without stepping outside of its boundaries.
The HWBB virtual gallery has been built with the future implementation requirements of the RIBA website firmly in mind. When the main RIBA website goes live, the HWBB gallery will seamlessly integrate with any search or data integration and other RIBA galleries that may be implemented in the future and will also fit appropriately into the navigation structure.
See the online exhibition
If you are interested in taking a closer look then please navigate to www.architecture.com/howwebuiltbritain|. In the television series that the website accompanies David Dimbleby will trace the social history of Britain through its architectural heritage from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century. 'How We Built Britain' will broadcast on BBC One from June 2007.