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Monthly Archives: May 2008
Ben Kelly: Off the peg
This month’s issue of AD Magazine, Interior Atmospheres, contains an article by CiA staffer Sally Stone with her regular co-author Graeme Brooker. The piece, entitled “Off the Peg: The Bespoke Interiors of Ben Kelly†was based upon an interview with … Continue reading
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Interiors, Press, Publications, Stone/Brooker
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Not only bears
This skeuomorphic concrete toilet is embossed to look like a house in the woods.
Philharmonie burns
BBC film and news item. Virtual tour.
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Mitteleuropa
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Nossa Senhora de Fatima, Lisbon
Porfirio Pardal Monteiro: Church of Nossa Senhora de Fatima, Lisbon (1938) This suburban church from the late 1930s presents a curious hybrid of architectural languages and materials. Its interior is formed in a gloomy concrete gothic, lit only by dramatic … Continue reading
Rumble in the (urban) jungle
Milan is the latest location for the on-off face-off between Daniel Libeskind and Rem Koolhaas, in the form of two rival museum projects for the city. Previous to this bout Koolhaas (the most provocative historian of New York) declined to … Continue reading
Lutyens damaged door mystery
Doors at the end of the long gallery in Lutyens’s crypt at Liverpool Cathedral are peppered with holes: how come? (Answer in comments)
Posted in CiA, Crompton, Edwin Lutyens, Liverpool
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Make good?
The RIBA Journal is suddenly worth reading again: Resistance Movement.
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts
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Meier versus Mayor
Is their heritage safe in Roman hands? To return to a question which has been asked previously on this blog, the new ‘post-fascist’ Mayor of Rome, Gianni Alemanno, has raked up an old controversy with his suggestion that Richard Meier’s … Continue reading
Posted in Aventinus, Buildings at Risk, CiA, Italy, Rome
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Muzio v Ponti
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. Giovanni Muzio’s Ca Brutta (1923) faces Gio Ponti’s Palazzo Montecatini (1936) across the junction of Via Fillipo Turati and Via Moscova in Milan. The buildings were completed within fifteen years of each other and display different … Continue reading
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Gio Ponti, Giovanni Muzio, Italy, Milan, Precedents, Travel
Tagged cabrutta, milano, montecatini, muzio, ponti
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Academic reads Telegraph shock
Our own Andrew Crompton describes the front page of the Daily Telegraph as “a thing of beauty”. More beautiful perhaps than the usual academic read: Guardian Education jobs. Link to Daily Telegraph article.
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Press
Tagged Crompton, dailytelegraph
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