Category Archives: Dominic Roberts

Make good?

The RIBA Journal is suddenly worth reading again: Resistance Movement.

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Muzio v Ponti

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. Giovanni Muzio’s Ca Brutta (1923) faces Gio Ponti’s Palazzo Montecatini (1936) across the junction of Via Fillipo Turati and Via Moscova in Milan. The buildings were completed within fifteen years of each other and display different … Continue reading

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Academic reads Telegraph shock

Our own Andrew Crompton describes the front page of the Daily Telegraph as “a thing of beauty”. More beautiful perhaps than the usual academic read: Guardian Education jobs. Link to Daily Telegraph article.

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Always a delightful scene

Architecture as uplifting spectacle: Moor Lane flats, Preston, November 2001. Video by George D Thompson

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Torpedo Hall

We have been corresponding with an architect member of the the design team for this project at Danish practice Tegnestuen Vandkunsten. The scheme involved stripping back the existing building, a hangar for the maintenance of torpedo boats, and inserting apartments … Continue reading

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Park Hill: Decked out

Following our recent items about Robin Hood Gardens, a link to a great collection of pictures of Park Hill, Sheffield (1961, Architects: Jack Lynn and Ivor Smith). CLICK HERE. The pictures include images of the proposed refurbishment. See also this description … Continue reading

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Robin Hood Gardens again

Following the post by Aventinus below more writers express their scepticism about the qualities of the Smithsons’ Robin Hood Gardens: Part iv and Fantastic Journal and Neighbourhoods. Building Design are pushing 1000 names. Were you emboldened?

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Gritstone Venetian

Former Co-op building on the main street of Youlgrave, Derbyshire. Now the Youth Hostel.

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St Antonius, Basel

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. A concrete church. Architect: Karl Moser, 1927-1931. The church sits parallel to the street, continuing the edge of the block. The entrance is via a strange double-sided portico with stepped portals (one portal for the street, … Continue reading

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CiA authors’ award nominations

Sally Stone and Eamonn Canniffe of Continuity in Architecture have both had books nominated for RIBA International Book Awards this year: RIBA Sir Nikolaus Pevsner International Book Award for Architecture RIBA International Book Award for Interior Design See also ‘Books … Continue reading

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The Honeywood File

Sesquipedalist has had the brilliant idea of publishing The Honeywood File, a novel consisting of the letters found in the job file of fictional 1920s architect James Spinlove, in blog form. The story starts HERE. Well I think it’s funny.

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The Icon Effect

The small seaside resort of Cleveleys, north of Blackpool, receives the economic benefits of a shipwreck.

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