Category Archives: Dominic Roberts

The Schiffli Machine

Posted on December 3, 2006 by Sally Stone

Video of the machine in action Our friend in embroidery, Melanie Miller, is encouraging wider use of the amazing Schiffli machine currently unloved and underused in the embroidery workshop. She has initiated a research project which involves inviting practitioners from … Continue reading →

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An architect’s sketchbook

Posted on December 2, 2006 by Sally Stone

The sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt at the University of Newcastle (Australia). Via Signal vs Noise.

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The details of modern architecture

Posted on November 25, 2006 by Sally Stone

Doppelhaus/Two-family house by Le Corbusier at Weissenhofseidlung Stuttgart. Picture taken in 1983. Peter Moro’s sketchbook

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Technique

Posted on November 8, 2006 by Sally Stone

These paintings of the area around S. Maria dei Miracoli in Venice were produced by Jenny Whittingham in 1997 as analytical sketches for a project in the School. They were produced by painting in acrylic directly onto standard photographic prints, … Continue reading →

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“Love it or hate it it’s worth a closer look before it goes”

Posted on October 30, 2006 by Sally Stone

…says Ian Stirland also known as “eat at joe’s”. His Flickr photoset of Preston Bus Station is definitely worth a look as the slow countdown to demolition continues. His latest pictures show modernism undermined by irrationality: Outside Inside As Ian … Continue reading →

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Eighties Electronica

Posted on October 29, 2006 by Sally Stone

Victor Dadras, now an architect in New York City, was a friend of Eamonn Canniffe’s at Harvard. We see him here, with his band ‘Dada’ in the ‘eighties, indulging in clowns, balls, bridges and locked doors in alleyways. see also: … Continue reading →

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Milano Possibile

Posted on October 20, 2006 by Sally Stone

In 1998, when ‘Continuity in Architecture’ was ‘Atelier Italia’, we ran a series of projects in Turin and Milan. The short Milan project asked for a scheme for one end of a less celebrated leg of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele. … Continue reading →

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Stirling Prize

Posted on October 14, 2006 by Sally Stone

“Channel 4’s Building of the Year: The Riba Stirling Prize (8.10pm) meets the solipsistic profession whose stranglehold on the populace it patronises and torments recalls the medieval church’s attitude to the peasantry. Architecture is the new tyranny. And Mariella Frostrup … Continue reading →

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cromp.com

Posted on October 6, 2006 by Sally Stone

Make the flag from a stack of 28 North Americas Andrew Crompton has contacted us to offer the chance to inspect fragments of this building preserved in his lonely eyrie in the Kantorowich Building. Andrew’s website at cromp.com is a … Continue reading →

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Mantua

Posted on October 4, 2006 by Sally Stone

The overt feature of this picture is the facade of the cathedral planted fimly on the earlier brick structure, but look at the line of the kerb to the pavement (sidewalk) as it progresses from the corner of the cathedral … Continue reading →

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St Mark, Bjorkhagen

Posted on October 2, 2006 by Sally Stone

St Mark, Bjorkhagen, Stockholm. Sigurd Lewerentz. St Mark, Bjorkhagen. Through the birch wood. St Mark is one of two brown brick churches completed by this architect in the ’50s and ’60s (the other is St Peter’s, Klippan). Like St Peter’s … Continue reading →

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Last chance to see…

Posted on September 25, 2006 by Sally Stone

Manchester: This is the former ‘Welsh Chapel’ (1837-1839) a familiar landmark on Upper Brook Street near the University. Attributed to Charles Barry, it is believed to be an early collaboration between this architect and A.W.N. Pugin. Barry and Pugin later … Continue reading →

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