Author Archives: Sally Stone

Interior Architecture

Sally Stone of CiA and her co-author Graeme Brooker of MMU Interior Design have had their latest book published just in time for the RAE . The book explores the most interesting type of sustainable architecture – the re-use of … Continue reading

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Go Bus: Glancey in Preston

Today’s Guardian arts supplement includes a Jonathan Glancey tribute to Preston Bus Station. Much too late to have any effect we fear. According to a recent item in the Lancashire Evening Post the building will be ‘half-demolished’ while a new … Continue reading

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Transparency

Red bucket, new extension to John Rylands Library, Deansgate, Manchester. Photo submitted by a concerned reader. See also…

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Studio Flyer

Sally Stone/Mark Emms Year Three Studio at Manchester School of Architecture starts Thursday 27 September. Big Flyer

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Edgar Wood Flyer

Event at Long Street Methodist Church, Middleton, 6-9 September 2007 Andy Marshall writes: Just to let you know that I have a photo exhibition of Edgar Wood buildings commissioned by Friends of Long Street Methodist on at Long Street Methodist … Continue reading

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Stirling’s Preston Housing

Fifty years ago James Stirling* was commissioned to design new housing for Preston. The scheme was completed in 1962 and was one of his earliest built projects in independent practice. In ‘Complete Works 1950-1974’ the scheme is illustrated alongside a … Continue reading

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Perfect Match

The Wedding Tower at the Matildenhoe, Darmstadt 1906-1909. Architect: Josef Maria Olbrich. The tower was erected to commemorate the marriage of the Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig to Princess Eleonore zu Solms-Hohensolms-Lich on 2 February 1905. On the top floor is … Continue reading

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By the ‘Colegio del Patriarca’, Valencia

An infill scheme in the Plaza del Colegio del Patriarca in Valencia uses an arcaded screen derived from the blind arches in the adjacent building to produce an understated urban form. I have no information about the date of the … Continue reading

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Jim and San Souc-i

Electa Bookshop, out of season Ronny Ford has written to us remembering Stirling: In 1991 I made a six-month visit to Italy with the intention of taking in all of the regions and as many of the islands as possible … Continue reading

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The ‘sixties

Slideshow St Nicholas, Fleetwood, Lancashire Architect: Laurence King 1907-1981 Foundation stone laid 1960 West End incomplete.

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Staatsgalerie reinterpreted

Staatsgalerie (and music school) reinterpreted. James Stirling 22 April 1926 – 25 June 1992

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The Staatsgalerie Downhill

Views of Stirling’s Staatsgalerie tend to show the front of the building with its extraordinary denial of the conventional facade in favour of an array of architectural motifs grounded in a stylised ruin – the approach from Konrad-Adenauer-Strasse invites the … Continue reading

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