Category Archives: Sally Stone

Preston Interrotta

“Preston has a picturesqueness of outline and a suggestion of spaciousness from a distance which distinguish it from most Lancashire cotton towns.”1 The Twenty-First Century city is a combination of two different ideas; the traditional city of streets and squares, … Continue reading

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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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Gate 81 Preston Bus Station

The Gate 81 project hacklab/workshop/charette has been arranged for May 2013. Link: Gate 81 Hacklab Email for info@gate81.com if you are interested in taking part.

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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

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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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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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End of Year Exhibition

ON THE INDUSTRIAL RUINS Continuity in Architecture has run two projects this year, both in post-industrial cities: Preston and Barcelona. Each city has approached the problem of how to transform the unban environment to accommodate the needs of the twenty-first … Continue reading

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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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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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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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