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Category Archives: Dominic Roberts
The Staatsgalerie Downhill
Views of Stirling’s Staatsgalerie tend to show the front of the building with its extraordinary denial of the conventional facade in favour of an array of architectural motifs grounded in a stylised ruin – the approach from Konrad-Adenauer-Strasse invites the … Continue reading
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Frankenstein in Leicester
Leicester University Engineering Building Architect: Stirling and Gowan 1959 In the engineering building at the University of Leicester by Stirling and Gowan, the profession was presented with its Frankenstein, amidst a concert of maidenish squeaks that have not yet died … Continue reading
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Messages from Portugal
Our recent post about Evora has led to some interesting correspondence with Portuguese architects and students. rui-mello sends us some images of the work of Joaquim Massena. The project is a theatre in Oporto. The work of Massena, which appears … Continue reading
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James Stirling: History Faculty
Taken inside James Stirling’s History Faculty Building at the University of Cambridge, 1967. James Stirling 22 April 1926 – 25 June 1992
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, James Stirling, Nostalgia
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Slow Home TV
A familiar face at Slow Home TV – Sally Stone of CiA and co-author of Re-readings. CLICK HERE to get to the Slow Home TV page and view the full interview.
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Two houses
House of the Suicide and House of the Mother of the Suicide by John Hejduk, Prague Castle, 2000. Georgia Institute of Technology Canadian Centre for Architecture. Architecture Week and for a fuller explanation… Books by John Hejduk Photograph taken at … Continue reading
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Mitteleuropa, Nostalgia, Precedents, Travel
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Whitsun action
Picture by (yet again) “eat at joe’s” Some juxtapositions of temporary and permanent at the annual Whit Fair in the centre of Preston. Pericles is safe in his pediment. See the same event in 1930 via the link below (may … Continue reading
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Quite a big weekend
Preston is the centre of the pop-musical world this weekend. It’s the biggest event in the town/city since, well, last Preston Guild. The View, The Scissor Sisters, Razorlight, Kasabian, LCD Sound System…(full line-up) are all bringing their cutting-edge/reminiscentoftheseventies sounds to … Continue reading
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From the bottom drawer
I found these photographs (taken c.1988?) in the bottom of a plan chest drawer. They show James Stirling’s Runcorn Housing which was designed in 1967, built 1970-1977 and demolished in 1990. Read what Stirling had to say about the original … Continue reading
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, James Stirling, Nostalgia, Travel
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Gentle ribbing
Some gentle ribbing of Manchester boosterism in The New Yorker this week.
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Chapel of the Resurrection
Photoset
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Sigurd Lewerentz, Sweden
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Lutyens in Liverpool
The exhibition of the great model of Lutyens’ project for Liverpool Roman Catholic Cathedral ends on 22 April (Walker Art Gallery website). The building is stupendous: buildings, pylons and aedicules piled up and punctuated by saints mounted on columns and … Continue reading
Posted in Churches, CiA, Dominic Roberts, Edwin Lutyens, Liverpool, Travel
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