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Category Archives: Crompton
Star Bricks
This delightful detail is made with a single brick special. (Parsonage Road, Withington, Manchester)
Card No.7
You see more if you draw.
Posted in Architecture Hacks, CiA, Crompton
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Heartbreakingly Picturesque
With neighbours like these one senses that this piece of old Manchester will soon be shouldered into oblivion. (Picture taken on Upper Brook Street, Manchester)
Posted in Buildings at Risk, CiA, Crompton, Manchester
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Card No.8
Blu-tack after dark.
How to end a staircase
Not at all flimsy, the low balustrade makes this octagonal spike seem even bigger than it is. Architect: Alfred Waterhouse, Cheadle Hulme School.
Posted in CiA, Crompton, Manchester
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Card No.9
Borromini does a window. Flaming heart.
Posted in Architecture Hacks, CiA, Crompton
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Hexagonal Plan
Never to make a hexagonal building is good advice for any architecture student, but sometimes nothing else will do. The Edgware Road Music Hall was a masterpiece of planning with segregated circulation systems for stalls and pit and not an … Continue reading
Posted in CiA, Crompton, Precedents
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Architectural graphics
The style of this beautiful book, with a shadow font above a slender serif font, all in red white and black with a hessian spine, is strongly reminiscent of the Architectural Review of the time. (Stevenage Development Corporation, 1950)
Edgar’s Garden
The garden made by Edgar Wood at Monte Calvario, Porto Maurizio, Liguria around 1935 has a theatrical air. His housekeeper, to whom he bequeathed the villa, is sitting on the bench. (We thank J. Jelly for permission to display this … Continue reading
Posted in CiA, Crompton, Edgar Wood Vigilantes
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Just build it like the d*mn drawings
It is obvious what has happened here, but not to absolutely everyone.
Best Brick Wall in England?
Moss Side Bus Garage, Manchester, has a splendid arch facing Princess Road, but the side elevation is even more remarkable: it swerves between colossal buttresses with flush Portland stone caps. All the details are odd. Even though it is blemished … Continue reading
Posted in CiA, Crompton, Manchester
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Card No.10
Brick ruler. One brick is not a brick.
Posted in Architecture Hacks, CiA, Crompton
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