Category Archives: Dominic Roberts

HAULuP: Heritage and Architecture of Urban Landscape under Production

Posted on October 10, 2013 by Sally Stone

 Continuity in Architecture have just returned from the 2013 Heritage and Architecture of Urban Landscape under Productions Workshop. This international project, which was based at the Università Iuav di Venezia (IUAV), was a collaboration between the schools of architecture in … Continue reading →

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Preston Interrotta

Posted on July 3, 2013 by Sally Stone

“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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Architecture professors folding, stapling, singing

Posted on June 27, 2013 by Sally Stone

Remembering the Archaeology and Architecture workshop, IUAV, Venice, 2010

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Preston Bus Station fights for life

Posted on December 16, 2012 by Sally Stone

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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The Bosphorus

Posted on December 7, 2012 by Sally Stone

The silhouette of Istanbul, sailing West on the Bosphorus towards the bridge connecting Europe and Asia.

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Muscular Jugendstil

Posted on November 18, 2012 by Sally Stone

Jugendstil/Art Nouveau building, Istanbul. Note the heavily modelled floral decoration.

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Isolated doorway

Posted on November 16, 2012 by Sally Stone

Next to the baptistery, Santa Sophia, Istanbul.

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Liverpool Lecture

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Sally Stone

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

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Sally Stone

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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Nottingham Contemporary

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Sally Stone

Nottingham Contemporary Art Gallery Caruso St John Architects Completed November 2009 Photoset

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Salisbury

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Sally Stone

Salisbury Cathedral cloister.

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Lattice and Font

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Sally Stone

Lattice and font. St Edward the Confessor, Kempley, Gloucestershire. Randall Wells, architect. More … 

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