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Category Archives: Buildings at Risk
Procession to Celebrate Preston Bus Station 2nd November 2013
Preston Bus Station has been listed, but this doesn’t mean that it’s future is secure and that we can forget about it. Great care needs to be taken when considering its future. The building could still be demolished if … Continue reading
Posted in Buildings at Risk, CiA, Exhibitions, Gate 81, Preston, Preston Bus Station, Sally Stone, Students
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Preston Bus Station
 It is with great delight the Continuity in Architecture can confirm that Preston Bus Station has been granted Grade 2 listed status. CiA have, with Gate 81, actively supported the campaign to enjoy the building, and we hope that … Continue reading
Posted in Buildings at Risk, CiA, Gate 81, Preston, Preston Bus Station, Sally Stone
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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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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.
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St Wilfrid remains in Hulme
A flying visit to St Wilfrid’s RC Church in Hulme, Manchester designed by A.W.N. Pugin. Pevsner writes: By Pugin, 1842, and memorable as a very early case of the archeologically convincing church … The exterior of the church is red … Continue reading
How will the new library wear the inevitable black shroud?
As the vultures gather around the soon to be vacated carcass of E. Vincent Harris’s Central Library in Manchester, CiA student Michael Groves has discovered the above stygian description of the then new library’s 1934 context by an anonymous but … Continue reading
Posted in Aventinus, Buildings at Risk, CiA, E Vincent Harris, Manchester
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Improvisation at the Bus Station
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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Notes from Belgrade #2
4. Block 23 from Block 22: Picturesque brutalism, a city in the sky. Twenty floors up ivy grows and pigeon loft has been built. (Novi Beograd: Architects: Jankovic, Karadzic, Stjepanovic, 1975). 5. Weightlifter: Meaty Doric column on Belgrade Post Office. … Continue reading
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Notes from Belgrade #1
Some sights from a recent trip to Belgrade (Beograd): 1. Bill Clinton and Urban Design: Nikola Dobrovic, Architect, 1963, Ministry of Defence, Belgrade, in two parts, whose stepped forms matched each other across a major street, forming an image of … Continue reading
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Cashing in the CHIPS
The landscape of urban desolation which New Islington still remains as we plumb the depths of the recession has been recently complemented by the unveiling of Will Alsop’s long awaited CHIPS apartment building. Uncannily similar to the computer simulation produced … Continue reading
Posted in Aventinus, Buildings at Risk, CiA, Manchester
Tagged anomie, CHIPS, Manchester, New Islington, willalsop
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Drinking in architecture
It is St Walburge’s Beer Festival time again. This is your opportunity to sample the ales of Britain alongside one of the country’s great buildings: Joseph Hansom’s St Walburge’s RC Church, Preston. We’ll be there Thursday night, Friday night and … Continue reading
Posted in Buildings at Risk, Churches, CiA, Dominic Roberts, Preston
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It’s naff up north?
The provincial insecurities which plague issues of urban design in Manchester surface again with these two proposals for familiar landmarks. The austere sublimity which might be thought to characterise the best of Manchester’s civic and industrial architecture had no need … Continue reading
Posted in Aventinus, Buildings at Risk, CiA, E Vincent Harris, Manchester
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