Author Archives: Sally Stone

The Hand of the Architect Sketching

     Continuity in Architecture have been a-twitter with excitement at the prospect of a lecture by the highly acclaimed architect Peter Wilson. The sense of expectation was heightened by the memories of past and highly influential talks which probably … Continue reading

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Exhibition Opening

Continuity in Architecture is delighted to announce the opening of an important exhibition of twelve projects from the Erasmus Intensive Workshop held in Venice in Autumn 2011. The show features the work of post-graduate students from the CiA Unit of … Continue reading

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The Coalhouse, Kishorn

  Buildings Outlast Civilisations. Throughout history buildings have been reused and adapted, they survive as culture and civilizations change. The already built provides a direct link with the past; it is a connection with the very building bricks of our … Continue reading

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Liverpool Lecture

Slides from a lecture given by Dominic Roberts at Liverpool School of Architecture, 9 March 2012. Picture: Blackpool Tower on fire, 1897

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Derbyshire Tuscan

All Saints RC Church, Hassop, Derbyshire. Designed by Joseph Ireland and built 1816-18.”The design is in the severest Classical Revival style: a correct Etruscan temple front, tetrastyle, prostyle.” (Pevsner, Buildings of England) Photoset 

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Antwerp Central Railway Station

Antwerpen-Centraal Designed by Louis Delacenserie, inaugurated in the summer of 1905 W G Sebald in the opening passage of Austerlitz recounts a chance encounter and the consequent conversations that took place within the Station. He describes in detail the enormity … Continue reading

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the City: the Building: the Room

Sally Stone has just returned from the Winter School at the University of Antwerp. This important annual event invites academics and architects to run projects upon a specific theme, this years was Transformer.  Antwerp, an important city in northern Belgium, in … Continue reading

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Research Studentship

  Pugin: the Search for the True Gothic 2012 marks the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, one of the most important architects of the nineteenth century. His approach to the interpretation and creation of a … Continue reading

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On the Industrial Ruins

    On the Industrial Ruins Over the last forty years the western world has witnessed massive social and economic restructuring. The old heavy industries, upon which our society was constructed, have collapsed. Countries such as the UK and Spain, … Continue reading

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Projects in Dubrovnik and Westminster

This year the Continuity in Architecture students have completed projects in Westminster and Dubrovnik. These were part of what was described as an Argosy of projects as they formed a group with studies in Venice, Antwerp and Manchester. Of course, … Continue reading

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Església de la Colònia Güell

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Thinking about Josep Llinás

  On a recent visit to Barcelona it was a great pleasure to see once again his Carme Housing in the Raval District. This was always a modest building and seems even more so now that it needs a coat … Continue reading

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