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Author Archives: Sally Stone
Order Revealed
Order revealed during demolition at 2-4 Oxford Road. Compare with Leon Krier’s satirical reinforced concrete order from ‘Houses, Palaces, Cities’*. *Porphyrios, Demetri, ed. Leon Krier: Houses, Palaces, Cities. London, 1984 **The building in the background is the former Refuge Assurance … Continue reading
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Bankers?
Cornice detail on the (now empty) Midland Bank, Fishergate, Preston. BankersÂÂ
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Aalto Medal
Tegnestuen Vandkunsten have won the 2009 Alvar Aalto Medal of the Finnish Association of Architects. Last year we featured their Copenhagen Torpedo Hall housing. What the jury said…
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Friends & Acquaintances
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Experience & imagination: These were the things I saw
XXXII The Temple of Nike from Mars Hill, Athens This is the grandest grouping of the Acroplis. The way in which the whole, in solemn square masses, piles up-the temple dominating all-is marvellous. It is finer, I am sure, in … Continue reading
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Terry on Palladio
…at GABION includes a great picture of an architect’s drawing materials (including portable heater).
Posted in Andrea Palladio, CiA, Dominic Roberts
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Vitruvian Mine
Plan of pit bottom at Bentley Colliery, Yorkshire from Historical Review of Coal Mining published and printed for the Mining Association of Great Britain by Fleetwood Press, circa 1924. Compare with Barleith Colliery, Ayrshire:
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Two Heads
One from the Manchester School of Architecture archives. Joe Jessop (last Head of School but one) and Colin Pugh (current Acting Head of School) in the Sandbar.
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Piscina
Piscina carved into the cill at All Saints, Brockhampton, Herefordshire. Architect W.R. Lethaby, 1902. Photoset
Posted in Churches, CiA, Dominic Roberts
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Valley roll
New stepped valley constructed in timber and according with best practice. Ready for lining. With the tapered gutter, the pitched roof merges into the sole of the gutter without upstands. Thus, according to the fall of the gutter and the … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture Hacks, CiA, Dominic Roberts, Practice
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Interior Architecture: Context & Environment
CiA staffer Sally Stone and her co-author Graeme Brooker have just had their second book in the Basic Interior Architecture series published. “Context & Environment” examines the ways in which elements based both inside and outside of the host building … Continue reading
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Back to school
Basilica Palladiana: Geometry studies by Sophie Corkhill, BArch student Manchester School of Architecture.
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Eric Parry in the FT
At its heart it’s all about this ‘citiness’, about contributing to the building and the culture of the city. The European city has proved itself the most fascinating receptacle for culture and perhaps it’s a bit of a cheek leaving … Continue reading
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