Category Archives: CiA

Scottish Ballet Headquarters

Recently CiA were honoured to receive a guided tour the Scottish Ballet Head Quarters in Glasgow, by the project architect, Clive Albert of Malcolm Fraser Architects. The building shares an entrance with the Tramway Gallery, and we although we had … Continue reading

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FORGOTTEN SPACES

Continuity in Architecture is almost twenty years old. It is something that we would like to celebrate and we fully intend to mark the occasion with some sort of jamboree or other such event. Look out for further posts. Over … Continue reading

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Gate 81: Workshop at the University in Antwerp

ANTWERP INTERRUPTED Link to student projects  “…I would say that even in historic times documents are not always available, and buildings (monuments, vernacular constructions and public works) are themselves important texts, often providing the first and most lasting impression of … Continue reading

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Preston Bus Station fights for life

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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The Bosphorus

The silhouette of Istanbul, sailing West on the Bosphorus towards the bridge connecting Europe and Asia.

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Muscular Jugendstil

Jugendstil/Art Nouveau building, Istanbul. Note the heavily modelled floral decoration.

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Isolated doorway

Next to the baptistery, Santa Sophia, Istanbul.

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If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller

         Projects in Venice and Cartmel  This year Continuity in Architecture will offer two projects, one at home and the other away, but both have a strong connection with water and with travel. “It is very old, and … Continue reading

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End of Year Exhibition

ON THE INDUSTRIAL RUINS Continuity in Architecture has run two projects this year, both in post-industrial cities: Preston and Barcelona. Each city has approached the problem of how to transform the unban environment to accommodate the needs of the twenty-first … Continue reading

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Save Library Walk

A Facebook group has been formed to organize opposition to the new proposals for Vincent Harris’s Library Walk in Manchester. Read the Heritage Statement  (pdf) produced by the developer’s historic building adviser. Quote from statement: how this left-over space came into being and … Continue reading

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The Hand of the Architect Sketching

     Continuity in Architecture have been a-twitter with excitement at the prospect of a lecture by the highly acclaimed architect Peter Wilson. The sense of expectation was heightened by the memories of past and highly influential talks which probably … Continue reading

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Exhibition Opening

Continuity in Architecture is delighted to announce the opening of an important exhibition of twelve projects from the Erasmus Intensive Workshop held in Venice in Autumn 2011. The show features the work of post-graduate students from the CiA Unit of … Continue reading

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