Category Archives: Buildings at Risk

Procession to Celebrate Preston Bus Station 2nd November 2013

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Sally Stone

  Preston Bus Station has been listed, but this doesn’t mean that it’s future is secure and that we can forget about it. Great care needs to be taken when considering its future. The building could still be demolished if … Continue reading →

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Preston Bus Station

Posted on September 23, 2013 by Sally Stone

  It is with great delight the Continuity in Architecture can confirm that Preston Bus Station has been granted Grade 2 listed status. CiA have, with Gate 81, actively supported the campaign to enjoy the building, and we hope that … Continue reading →

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Preston Interrotta

Posted on July 3, 2013 by Sally Stone

“Preston has a picturesqueness of outline and a suggestion of spaciousness from a distance which distinguish it from most Lancashire cotton towns.”1 The Twenty-First Century city is a combination of two different ideas; the traditional city of streets and squares, … Continue reading →

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Preston Bus Station fights for life

Posted on December 16, 2012 by Sally Stone

All our Preston Bus Station posts. The demolition vote is being held by Preston City Council on Monday 17th December. The Council’s background documentation is here … Including costings and rejected urban design proposals.

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St Wilfrid remains in Hulme

Posted on November 8, 2010 by Sally Stone

A flying visit to St Wilfrid’s RC Church in Hulme, Manchester designed by A.W.N. Pugin. Pevsner writes: By Pugin, 1842, and memorable as a very early case of the archeologically convincing church … The exterior of the church is red … Continue reading →

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How will the new library wear the inevitable black shroud?

Posted on February 5, 2010 by Aventinus

As the vultures gather around the soon to be vacated carcass of E. Vincent Harris’s Central Library in Manchester, CiA student Michael Groves has discovered the above stygian description of the then new library’s 1934 context by an anonymous but … Continue reading →

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Improvisation at the Bus Station

Posted on August 3, 2009 by Sally Stone

Preston Bus Station is one of those modernist structures that condemned the pedestrian to the bridge or subway giving the surrounding ground plane or ‘apron’ to vehicles i.e. buses. The people of Preston are characterised by their disdain for motorised … Continue reading →

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Notes from Belgrade #2

Posted on May 31, 2009 by Crompton

4. Block 23 from Block 22: Picturesque brutalism, a city in the sky. Twenty floors up ivy grows and pigeon loft has been built. (Novi Beograd: Architects: Jankovic, Karadzic, Stjepanovic, 1975). 5. Weightlifter: Meaty Doric column on Belgrade Post Office. … Continue reading →

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Notes from Belgrade #1

Posted on May 18, 2009 by Crompton

Some sights from a recent trip to Belgrade (Beograd): 1. Bill Clinton and Urban Design: Nikola Dobrovic, Architect, 1963, Ministry of Defence, Belgrade, in two parts, whose stepped forms matched each other across a major street, forming an image of … Continue reading →

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Cashing in the CHIPS

Posted on April 30, 2009 by Aventinus

The landscape of urban desolation which New Islington still remains as we plumb the depths of the recession has been recently complemented by the unveiling of Will Alsop’s long awaited CHIPS apartment building. Uncannily similar to the computer simulation produced … Continue reading →

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Drinking in architecture

Posted on March 23, 2009 by Sally Stone

It is St Walburge’s Beer Festival time again. This is your opportunity to sample the ales of Britain alongside one of the country’s great buildings: Joseph Hansom’s St Walburge’s RC Church, Preston. We’ll be there Thursday night, Friday night and … Continue reading →

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It’s naff up north?

Posted on March 23, 2009 by Aventinus

The provincial insecurities which plague issues of urban design in Manchester surface again with these two proposals for familiar landmarks. The austere sublimity which might be thought to characterise the best of Manchester’s civic and industrial architecture had no need … Continue reading →

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