Author Archives: Sally Stone

Architect, client and tour de force

Posted on October 21, 2009 by Sally Stone

Get the full picture at Iconic Photos 

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The Times on Architecture School

Posted on October 20, 2009 by Sally Stone

The avant garde absolutely gushes: TimesOnline 

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Contempt

Posted on October 7, 2009 by Sally Stone

Via The Footnotes of Mad Men, glimpses of the Casa Malaparte in Le Mepris

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This year in Venice

Posted on September 22, 2009 by Sally Stone

The B.Arch. studio presentations are being held on 22 September 2009. If you would like a preview/reminder of the CiA studio proposal go to THIS LINK Sally Stone and Eamonn Canniffe are currently participating in a joint architecture/archaeology workshop with … Continue reading →

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Abroad

Posted on August 5, 2009 by Sally Stone
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Improvisation at the Bus Station

Posted on August 3, 2009 by Sally Stone

Preston Bus Station is one of those modernist structures that condemned the pedestrian to the bridge or subway giving the surrounding ground plane or ‘apron’ to vehicles i.e. buses. The people of Preston are characterised by their disdain for motorised … Continue reading →

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Images and Memory

Posted on July 27, 2009 by Sally Stone

Immagini e memoria: Rome in the photographs of Father Peter Paul Mackey 1890-01 Sir John Soane’s Museum is hosting an exhibition from the photographic archive of the British School at Rome of the work of Fr. Peter Paul Mackey O.P., … Continue reading →

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Stone of Venice

Posted on July 12, 2009 by Sally Stone

CiA staffer Sally Stone has successfully obtained Erasmus Intensive Programme funding for a student project studying the relationship between architecture and archaeology in north-east Italy. The experimental workshop, run in partnership with IUAV (Venice) and ETSAB (Barcelona), will focus upon … Continue reading →

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“a spatial bowtie”, they say

Posted on July 1, 2009 by Sally Stone

The successful proposal for the LSE’s student centre has been announced. O’Donnell & Tuomey’s winning presentation boards as pdfs at this link.

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现代建筑的演变 1945–1990å¹´

Posted on June 30, 2009 by Sally Stone

CiA staffer Eamonn Canniffe’s 2007 book ‘Modern Architecture through Case Studies 1945 – 1990’ (with Peter Blundell Jones) has been published in Japanese Chinese. This new edition is available here.

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Fifties Neo-Vernacular

Posted on June 14, 2009 by Sally Stone

Small black and white prints found in the plan chest. I believe these show new buildings for Gresham’s School in Holt, Norfolk designed by Grenfell Baines & Hargreaves of Preston (later renamed Building Design Partnership) and photographed soon after completion … Continue reading →

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It’s dark. Dark in the daytime.

Posted on May 9, 2009 by Sally Stone

Further to Richard’s post below, more pictures of BDP’s Underley Hall projects from the early ‘sixties. Photoset

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