Monthly Archives: February 2009

Sverre Fehn (1924-2009): Nordic Pavilion, Venice

A film made by a group of Manchester School of Architecture students as part of the History of Architecture course. More fieldtripfilms

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Sverre Fehn

…died on Monday. Our visit to Hamar BD Online

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Ashgate Studies in Architecture

CiA staffer Eamonn Canniffe is the editor of the Architecture series from Ashgate Publishing. Follow the link to read a brief online interview with him. Ashgate Studies in Architecture See ‘Contact us’ in the sidebar for contact details. CiA: Hitting … Continue reading

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Order Revealed

Order revealed during demolition at 2-4 Oxford Road. Compare with Leon Krier’s satirical reinforced concrete order from ‘Houses, Palaces, Cities’*. *Porphyrios, Demetri, ed. Leon Krier: Houses, Palaces, Cities. London, 1984 **The building in the background is the former Refuge Assurance … Continue reading

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Figurative, Abstract, Classical

The apparition of Joel Shapiro’s suspended sculpture ‘Verge’ hovering since November 2008 between the (soon-to-be-completed) paired facades of the architect Eric Parry’s 23 Savile Row, London calls to mind the placing of Sir Joseph Epstein’s ‘Madonna and Child’ (1953) on … Continue reading

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So farewell then, 2-4 …

CiA are saddened to witness the demolition of 2-4 Oxford Road in Manchester. It provided an atmospheric and convivial, though cramped, studio space in the early hopeful years. We need more spaces like that in the city not less. Editor’s … Continue reading

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Notes from Rome

James Robertson, the Rome Scholar in Architecture, is approximately half way through his period at the British School at Rome. His research on the ecclesiastical architecture of Jack Coia has revealed many parallels in the twentieth century churches of Rome. … Continue reading

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Bankers?

Cornice detail on the (now empty) Midland Bank, Fishergate, Preston. Bankers 

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Aalto Medal

Tegnestuen Vandkunsten have won the 2009 Alvar Aalto Medal of the Finnish Association of Architects. Last year we featured their Copenhagen Torpedo Hall housing. What the jury said…

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Experience & imagination: These were the things I saw

XXXII The Temple of Nike from Mars Hill, Athens This is the grandest grouping of the Acroplis. The way in which the whole, in solemn square masses, piles up-the temple dominating all-is marvellous. It is finer, I am sure, in … Continue reading

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More Mont-de-Huisnes

Door handle at Mont-de-Huisnes German war cemetery, Normandy (built 1967).

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