Author Archives: Sally Stone

BDP at Underley Hall, 1964

I recently visited Underley Hall near Kirby Lonsdale in Cumbria with Richard Brook of Manchester School of Architecture. This is Richard’s account of the visit: Architects’ original model of the proposed Chapel at Underley Hall Representatives of CiA and team-bau … Continue reading

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Canova Museum Recreated

Peter Guthrie is a freelance visualisation artist based in London. He produced these computer generated images of Carlo Scarpa’s Canova Museum in Possagno as a personal exercise for his portfolio. Museo Canoviano, Possagno Canova Museum Updated

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Not Brutal but Savage

The Barn, Exmouth by Edward Schroder Prior, 1896. Photoset taken this week. In The Nature of Gothic John Ruskin proposed a list of the characteristics of Gothic architecture. This was an attempt to describe architecture as a living process rooted … Continue reading

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Fisheye Vienna: Mines & Explosions

Larger version. Via the marvellous JF Ptak Science Books. See Ptak Science Books for explanation and interpretation.

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A Harvard Colloquium

The last time Eamonn Canniffe (of CiA) was at Harvard, Peter Eisenman was a spring chicken. You can hear Eamonn speak about his current book at the De Bosis Colloquium in Italian Studies at the Department of Romance Languages and … Continue reading

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Drinking in architecture

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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“The Architect’s Task”

Two drawings of the Woodside Ventilation Station for the Queensway tunnel beneath the River Mersey. The drawings are from a battered copy of The Story of the Mersey Tunnel Officially Named Queensway published by Charles Birchall and Sons (1934). Excerpt: … Continue reading

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North Lancashire contains Architecture

Clare Hartwell’s major revision of Nikolaus Pevsner’s The Buildings of England: North Lancashire has just been published. The book describes all the significant buildings of the region from early history to the present day. It is an engrossing work and … Continue reading

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Mobile World Congress versus Mies

Melanie Miller (of Schiffli fame) forwards the following pictures from Barcelona where the Mobile World Congress was in full swing on Montjuic. Choice quote from a participant (via Reuters): Richard Windsor, industry specialist at Nomura, estimated after day one that … Continue reading

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From Acoustics to Zoomorphic

…via Fabio Novembre. CiA staffer Sally Stone has, along with her perennial collaborator Graeme Brooker and newbie Michael Coates, produced The Visual Dictionary of Interior Architecture and Design. It’s a cutely packaged book that is intended to inform and inspire. … Continue reading

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Philadelphia, Kahn & Moyamensing

I found Philadelphia: The Unexpected City* in between copies of Stalin on Lenin and A Drug-Taker’s Notes at Oxfam’s charity bookshop in Preston. From the cover blurb: Philadelphia…is full of paradox. It appears to the casual visitor recalcitrantly philistine. But … Continue reading

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Sverre Fehn

…died on Monday. Our visit to Hamar BD Online

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