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Author Archives: Sally Stone
LITTORAL INSPIRATIONS: ENCOUNTERS WITH THE LAGOON
Architecture can facilitate the exploration of identity through the examination of the specificity of the context in which it is embedded. The constructed environment is often charged with narrative content, certain elements come to the fore, while others are more … Continue reading
Posted in CiA, Grange-over-Sands, Italy, Preston Bus Station, Sally Stone, Student Projects, Venice
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Preston Interrotta
“Preston has a picturesqueness of outline and a suggestion of spaciousness from a distance which distinguish it from most Lancashire cotton towns.â€1 The Twenty-First Century city is a combination of two different ideas; the traditional city of streets and squares, … Continue reading
Posted in Buildings at Risk, CiA, Dominic Roberts, Education, Gate 81, Preston, Preston Bus Station, Sally Stone
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Architecture professors folding, stapling, singing
Remembering the Archaeology and Architecture workshop, IUAV, Venice, 2010
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Friends & Acquaintances, Venice
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BDP Architects to Host Charrette to discuss the Urban Implications of Preston Bus Station
In December 2012 Preston City Council voted ‘in principle’ to demolish Preston Bus Station and replace it with a surface car park. This building is a major cultural landmark and it should be preserved and creatively adapted to serve the … Continue reading
Posted in CiA, Manchester, Preston, Preston Bus Station, Research
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If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller…
Projects in Cartmel and Venice This year we have studied two locations, one home and one away. Both have a direct connection with sanctuary and with water. It is fabled that Cartmel Priory was founded in a place where fresh … Continue reading
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Scottish Ballet Headquarters
Recently CiA were honoured to receive a guided tour the Scottish Ballet Head Quarters in Glasgow, by the project architect, Clive Albert of Malcolm Fraser Architects. The building shares an entrance with the Tramway Gallery, and we although we had … Continue reading
Posted in CiA, Name Dropping, Precedents, Sally Stone, Scotland, Students
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FORGOTTEN SPACES
Continuity in Architecture is almost twenty years old. It is something that we would like to celebrate and we fully intend to mark the occasion with some sort of jamboree or other such event. Look out for further posts. Over … Continue reading
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Gate 81: Workshop at the University in Antwerp
ANTWERP INTERRUPTED Link to student projects “…I would say that even in historic times documents are not always available, and buildings (monuments, vernacular constructions and public works) are themselves important texts, often providing the first and most lasting impression of … Continue reading
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Preston Bus Station fights for life
All our Preston Bus Station posts. The demolition vote is being held by Preston City Council on Monday 17th December. The Council’s background documentation is here … Including costings and rejected urban design proposals.
Posted in Buildings at Risk, CiA, Dominic Roberts, Preston, Preston Bus Station
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If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller
      Projects in Venice and Cartmel This year Continuity in Architecture will offer two projects, one at home and the other away, but both have a strong connection with water and with travel. “It is very old, and … Continue reading
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Save Library Walk
A Facebook group has been formed to organize opposition to the new proposals for Vincent Harris’s Library Walk in Manchester. Read the Heritage Statement (pdf) produced by the developer’s historic building adviser. Quote from statement: how this left-over space came into being and … Continue reading
Posted in CiA, E Vincent Harris, Manchester
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