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Category Archives: Dominic Roberts
Museum for hoarding
Elegant temporary wrapping at the Harris Museum, Preston.
Not the Villa Savoie
The lodge or folly in the grounds of a great building is often more likeable than the main event. This structure is just inside the entrance to the grounds of the Villa Savoie.
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1968
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. Something for transport/concrete enthusiasts: a set of discarded slides of Preston Bus Station during construction and soon after. The building is of course “about to be demolished” – perhaps the architects (BDP Preston) expected a forty … Continue reading
Posted in Buildings at Risk, CiA, Dominic Roberts, Preston, Preston Bus Station
Tagged bdp, bus station, cia, keith ingham, Preston
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Adolf Loos: Anachronistically Alpine?
Following the Christmas post below, a few slides of the Khuner House by Adolf Loos (1930).Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. Contemporary to the whitewashed masterpieces of his last phase…this country house that is so vernacular, so anachronistically alpine, so rustic, raises … Continue reading
Posted in Adolf Loos, CiA, Dominic Roberts, Mitteleuropa, Precedents, Travel
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Loos Haus
In the years since our first visit to their Hotel-Restaurant the Steiner Family have, every Christmas, sent us a sprig of vegetation from the forest surrounding their building, better known to architects as the Khuner House by Adolf Loos. Guests … Continue reading
Posted in Adolf Loos, CiA, Dominic Roberts, Mitteleuropa, Name Dropping, Restaurants, Travel
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Photo-story
SMOKEBELCH has a nice Preston Bus Station post.
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Nina Edge: Nothing is private
Following our earlier post introducing the Mechanical Drawing exhibition, we would like to offer a closer look at one of the most interesting exhibits. The following text is from the exhibition catalogue courtesy of Melanie Miller:  “The schiffli machine at MMU … Continue reading
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Friends & Acquaintances
Tagged cia, Liverpool, melaniemiller, ninaedge, schiffli
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Mechanical Drawing
Back in December 2006 we posted a video of the extraordinary Schiffli machine which Dr Melanie Miller has used as the focus of a research project and exhibition. The machine is likely to be removed for disposal because it does … Continue reading
On the (Lisbon) Waterfront
The Council for European Urbanism (CEU) has informed us about a Symposium concerned particularly with the Lisbon waterfront projects: The symposium will address the urgent issues raised by the Lisbon waterfront projects in the context of the C.E.U. Charter. We … Continue reading
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Yesterday in Milan
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. Yesterday in Milan. Torre Velasca by BBPR (Gianluigi Banfi, Lodovico Belgiojoso, Enrico Peressutti, Ernesto Rogers), 1954.
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Italy, Milan, Travel
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All Saints
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. All Saints RC Church, Hassop, Derbyshire. Designed by Joseph Ireland and built 1816-18: The design is in the severest Classical Revival style: a correct Etruscan temple front, tetrastyle, prostyle. (N. Pevsner, Buildings of England, Derbyshire)
Posted in Churches, CiA, Dominic Roberts
Tagged 1816, allsaints, cia, continuity, derbyshire, hassop, josephireland
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Makom at Chatsworth
This Inside Then And Apparently (press release): Michal Rovner, the renowned installation artist whose show in the Israeli Pavilion was one of the highlights of the Venice Biennale in 2003, has created a new piece inspired by the grounds and … Continue reading
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Interiors, Precedents, Travel
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