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Category Archives: Dominic Roberts
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
Posted in Buildings at Risk, CiA, Dominic Roberts, Preston, Preston Bus Station
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Images and Memory
Immagini e memoria: Rome in the photographs of Father Peter Paul Mackey 1890-01 Sir John Soane’s Museum is hosting an exhibition from the photographic archive of the British School at Rome of the work of Fr. Peter Paul Mackey O.P., … Continue reading
Posted in Aventinus, CiA, Dominic Roberts, Friends & Acquaintances, Name Dropping, Rome
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Stone of Venice
CiA staffer Sally Stone has successfully obtained Erasmus Intensive Programme funding for a student project studying the relationship between architecture and archaeology in north-east Italy. The experimental workshop, run in partnership with IUAV (Venice) and ETSAB (Barcelona), will focus upon … Continue reading
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Friends & Acquaintances, Italy, Sally Stone, Student Projects, Travel, Venice
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“a spatial bowtie”, they say
The successful proposal for the LSE’s student centre has been announced. O’Donnell & Tuomey’s winning presentation boards as pdfs at this link.
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Friends & Acquaintances
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现代建ç‘çš„æ¼”å˜ 1945–1990å¹´
CiA staffer Eamonn Canniffe’s 2007 book ‘Modern Architecture through Case Studies 1945 – 1990’ (with Peter Blundell Jones) has been published in Japanese Chinese. This new edition is available here.
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Publications, Research
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Fifties Neo-Vernacular
Small black and white prints found in the plan chest. I believe these show new buildings for Gresham’s School in Holt, Norfolk designed by Grenfell Baines & Hargreaves of Preston (later renamed Building Design Partnership) and photographed soon after completion … Continue reading
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Nostalgia
Tagged bdp, george grenfell baines, holt, norfolk, Preston
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Canova Museum Recreated
Peter Guthrie is a freelance visualisation artist based in London. He produced these computer generated images of Carlo Scarpa’s Canova Museum in Possagno as a personal exercise for his portfolio. Museo Canoviano, Possagno Canova Museum Updated
Posted in Carlo Scarpa, CiA, Dominic Roberts, Friends & Acquaintances, Interiors
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Not Brutal but Savage
The Barn, Exmouth by Edward Schroder Prior, 1896. Photoset taken this week. In The Nature of Gothic John Ruskin proposed a list of the characteristics of Gothic architecture. This was an attempt to describe architecture as a living process rooted … Continue reading
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Precedents, Travel
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Fisheye Vienna: Mines & Explosions
Larger version. Via the marvellous JF Ptak Science Books. See Ptak Science Books for explanation and interpretation.
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Mitteleuropa
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A Harvard Colloquium
The last time Eamonn Canniffe (of CiA) was at Harvard, Peter Eisenman was a spring chicken. You can hear Eamonn speak about his current book at the De Bosis Colloquium in Italian Studies at the Department of Romance Languages and … Continue reading
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Name Dropping, Publications
Tagged daniele turello, debosis, harvard, sever hall
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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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“The Architect’s Taskâ€
Two drawings of the Woodside Ventilation Station for the Queensway tunnel beneath the River Mersey. The drawings are from a battered copy of The Story of the Mersey Tunnel Officially Named Queensway published by Charles Birchall and Sons (1934). Excerpt: … Continue reading
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Practice
Tagged birkenhead, herbert j rowse, Liverpool, mersey tunnel, queensway, woodside
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