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Category Archives: Dominic Roberts
Klippan photoset
Church of St Peter, Klippan, Sweden. Sigurd Lewerentz 1963-1966. Photoset. Yes, it’s dark in there.
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MSA climb the Web
Manchester School of Architecture have launched a redesigned website. Congratulations to Neil Ashdown, Stefan White and colleagues on the design team. The site includes an information video in English and Mandarin Chinese. There is also an answer to the question … Continue reading
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Malmo sketch
Sigurd Lewerentz worked on the Malmo Eastern Cemetery from 1916 until 1969. The cemetery is the site of his final building. The first impression of the cemetery is disappointing – the initial impact of the Woodland Cemetery in Stockholm is … Continue reading
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Gothenburg
Lettering. Gothenburg Law Courts. Architect: Erik Gunnar Asplund, 1937. Photoset.
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The Last Building
The final building by Sigurd Lewerentz is a small flower stall completed in 1969 for Malmo East Cemetery. The original simple mono-pitch form has been recently extended. The original building is charming and elegant. It is sited parallel with the … Continue reading
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Stockholm Library
It is difficult to get a new angle on this classic building. The biggest surprise, to me, is its aloofness – the building stands back four-square, the main approach to the entrance obscured by commercial structures along the street. This … Continue reading
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Hamar, Norway
Hedmarksmuseet, Hamar, Norway. Sverre Fehn’s seminal/iconic/etc. masterwork completed in 1973. A collection of ruins (Archbishop’s fortified palace, manor house) on an important medieval route have been rebuilt/completed using modern building techniques. This has been done in order to display artefacts … Continue reading
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Karlstad, Sweden
The Varmland Regional Museum by Cyrillus Johansson (1926-1929). Where one might have expected the architect to closely follow a local architectural idiom Johansson chose to follow his strong interest in Chinese architecture. The building is built upon a mound of … Continue reading
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Three Men in a Boat…
….Woody Woodmansey, David Bowie and Mick Ronson. The DFDS ship ‘Princess of Scandinavia’ is typical of its type having an interior reminiscent of a motorway service station. The one interior of interest is the ‘Heaven 11’ disco on deck 7 … Continue reading
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Some Vandalism
Municipal vandalism. Library Walk curves and tapers in response to Vincent Harris’s two great Manchester buildings – Central Library and the Town Hall Extension – joining St Peter’s Square to Mount Street. A correspondent has sent us some pictures of … Continue reading
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The Great Stone
The War Memorial in St Peter’s Square, Manchester has had problems for a few years now. The construction of a Metro stop made it into an overspill for the platform space. The openess of the memorial precinct appears to have … Continue reading
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Analogue and Digital
Another minute in the death of Preston Bus Station, soon to be demolished. The use of analogue and digital time displays was a compromise of the late ‘sixties and early ‘seventies as people got used to decimalization and the 24 … Continue reading
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