Archaeologist, journalist and artist Christine Finn opened up her parents' house in Deal last year
and sparked fascination and nostalgia. For architecture08, Christine has taken exploration of the family
home and its meaning a stage further.
Competition for under-10s
Win a digital camera!
A bird's eye view
If you are aged 10 or under, we would like you to think about a building you know from a bird's eye view. You can do one or all of these:
- draw or paint a picture of the building from a bird's eye view
- write a story (up to 250 words) about the building from a bird's eye view
- design the perfect house for a bird!
Enter this competition and you could win a digital camera or one of our runner up prizes.
We use buildings to keep us warm and dry, to make spaces in which we do things: eating and sleeping, playing and going to school, shopping and enjoying ourselves.
We see buildings from the inside as we use them and from the outside, usually from the ground. A really great building is useful and makes us feel good too.
But birds use buildings as well as us. They use them to sit on and sometimes to build nests on. What do they see? Can you draw or describe what they think of our buildings?
Enter the competition here. You will need to scan in your drawing/painting and attach it to the form as a jpg or pdf.
Conditions:
- Open to those aged 10 years or under, who live in the south east (Berks, Bucks, Oxon, Hants, IoW, Surrey, East Sussex, West Sussex Kent)
- Closing date for entries: 20 June 2008
- Include your name, address, age and contact details on the form
- Winners will be asked to submit the original drawing or story to claim their prize
- Entries may be used for publicity purposes relating to architecture08
- Winners will be selected by a Jury appointed by RIBA South East
- The Jury's decision is final.
