Monthly Archives: June 2006

Analogue and Digital

Posted on June 29, 2006 by Sally Stone

Another minute in the death of Preston Bus Station, soon to be demolished. The use of analogue and digital time displays was a compromise of the late ‘sixties and early ‘seventies as people got used to decimalization and the 24 … Continue reading →

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Letter to the Editor

Posted on June 26, 2006 by Sally Stone

The vision published in the Lancashire Evening Post June 5 2006 Location The text of a letter published in the Lancashire Evening Post on Friday 23 June: “It is difficult to understand the point of the drawings of the proposed … Continue reading →

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Beyond the Fragile Geometry of Space

Posted on June 23, 2006 by Aventinus

Beyond the Fragile Geometry of Space. Studio 6 (Tutors Eamonn Canniffe and Renata Tyszczuk) – University of Sheffield School of Architecture: Exhibition at Sylvester Works Sheffield (Location, exhibition now closed). The studio projects dealt with the possibilities for the northern … Continue reading →

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Toronto Project

Posted on June 22, 2006 by Sally Stone

John Johnston formerly a studio tutor at Manchester School of Architecture now finds himself in Durham, North Carolina, where he is setting up a practice and doing some independent property development. John’s professional life has taken him from Texas to … Continue reading →

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Appearing Rooms

Posted on June 19, 2006 by Sally Stone

Appearing Rooms by Jeppe Hein has been installed on Preston Flag Market as part of Art 06. It consists of walls of water defining four square rooms. The water walls switch on and off intermittently to allow users to move … Continue reading →

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The Temple

Posted on June 15, 2006 by Sally Stone

Leaving The Temple of Convenience is a fine architectural experience. A former underground toilet, the bar borrows a superstructure of bold Edwardian commercial architecture from nearby buildings. You don’t fall out of this bar – you rise out of it. … Continue reading →

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Interventions

Posted on June 12, 2006 by Sally Stone

The INTERVENTIONS exhibition opens at CUBE on Wednesday evening at 6.30pm. Exhibition Location Interventions is an exhibition of the work of a group of students from the college of Continuity in Architecture at Manchester who worked with the students from … Continue reading →

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Parc Bach

Posted on June 12, 2006 by Sally Stone

Camlin Lonsdale Landscape Architects of Llangadfan in Powys held their summer barbecue this weekend and offered us the chance to revisit their studio designed by Dominic Roberts and constructed by Robert Camlin. The building was conceived as one boundary/edge of … Continue reading →

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Facades & faces

Posted on June 3, 2006 by Sally Stone

Nether Witton Hall, Northumberland. Pevsner in ‘The Buildings of England: Northumberland’: “…c.1700-1710…square block seven by three bays, with top balustrade and quoins. All windows with pediments, but three varieties used in an order difficult to follow: straight-sided open, segmental open, … Continue reading →

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