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Category Archives: Dominic Roberts
Ara Pacis, Rome 1938
A vintage postcard found in a flea market in Preston. It shows the pavilion of 1938 designed by Morpurgo to house the Ara Pacis. This building was recently replaced by a controversial new building designed by Richard Meier discussed in … Continue reading
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Italy, Rome
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Censed
The Church of the Holy Name on Oxford Road (OK, opposite The Academy) was built by the Jesuits between 1869 and 1871 and is one of the great spaces of the University area. It has an unusually wide nave spanned … Continue reading
Posted in Churches, CiA, Dominic Roberts, Manchester
Tagged , cia, continuity, hansom, holyname, Manchester, terracotta
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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
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Precedents, Publications, Research
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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
Posted in Buildings at Risk, CiA, Dominic Roberts, Preston, Preston Bus Station
Tagged Preston, Preston Bus Station
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Transparency
Red bucket, new extension to John Rylands Library, Deansgate, Manchester. Photo submitted by a concerned reader. See also…
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Manchester
Tagged cia, deansgate, johnrylands, library, redbucket, transparency
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Studio Flyer
Sally Stone/Mark Emms Year Three Studio at Manchester School of Architecture starts Thursday 27 September. Big Flyer
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Student Projects
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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
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
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, James Stirling, Nostalgia, Preston
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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
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Nostalgia, Travel
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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
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Friends & Acquaintances, Italy, James Stirling, Travel, Venice
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The ‘sixties
Slideshow St Nicholas, Fleetwood, Lancashire Architect: Laurence King 1907-1981 Foundation stone laid 1960 West End incomplete.
Posted in Churches, CiA, Dominic Roberts, Travel
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Staatsgalerie reinterpreted
Staatsgalerie (and music school) reinterpreted. James Stirling 22 April 1926 – 25 June 1992
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, James Stirling
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