Category Archives: Dominic Roberts

Mobile World Congress versus Mies

Posted on March 10, 2009 by Sally Stone

Melanie Miller (of Schiffli fame) forwards the following pictures from Barcelona where the Mobile World Congress was in full swing on Montjuic. Choice quote from a participant (via Reuters): Richard Windsor, industry specialist at Nomura, estimated after day one that … Continue reading →

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From Acoustics to Zoomorphic

Posted on March 9, 2009 by Sally Stone

…via Fabio Novembre. CiA staffer Sally Stone has, along with her perennial collaborator Graeme Brooker and newbie Michael Coates, produced The Visual Dictionary of Interior Architecture and Design. It’s a cutely packaged book that is intended to inform and inspire. … Continue reading →

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Philadelphia, Kahn & Moyamensing

Posted on March 4, 2009 by Sally Stone

I found Philadelphia: The Unexpected City* in between copies of Stalin on Lenin and A Drug-Taker’s Notes at Oxfam’s charity bookshop in Preston. From the cover blurb: Philadelphia…is full of paradox. It appears to the casual visitor recalcitrantly philistine. But … Continue reading →

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Sverre Fehn

Posted on February 26, 2009 by Sally Stone

…died on Monday. Our visit to Hamar BD Online

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Order Revealed

Posted on February 22, 2009 by Sally Stone

Order revealed during demolition at 2-4 Oxford Road. Compare with Leon Krier’s satirical reinforced concrete order from ‘Houses, Palaces, Cities’*. *Porphyrios, Demetri, ed. Leon Krier: Houses, Palaces, Cities. London, 1984 **The building in the background is the former Refuge Assurance … Continue reading →

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Aalto Medal

Posted on February 9, 2009 by Sally Stone

Tegnestuen Vandkunsten have won the 2009 Alvar Aalto Medal of the Finnish Association of Architects. Last year we featured their Copenhagen Torpedo Hall housing. What the jury said…

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Experience & imagination: These were the things I saw

Posted on February 5, 2009 by Sally Stone

XXXII The Temple of Nike from Mars Hill, Athens This is the grandest grouping of the Acroplis. The way in which the whole, in solemn square masses, piles up-the temple dominating all-is marvellous. It is finer, I am sure, in … Continue reading →

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Terry on Palladio

Posted on January 30, 2009 by Sally Stone

…at GABION includes a great picture of an architect’s drawing materials (including portable heater).

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Vitruvian Mine

Posted on January 27, 2009 by Sally Stone

Plan of pit bottom at Bentley Colliery, Yorkshire from Historical Review of Coal Mining published and printed for the Mining Association of Great Britain by Fleetwood Press, circa 1924. Compare with Barleith Colliery, Ayrshire:

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Two Heads

Posted on January 21, 2009 by Sally Stone

One from the Manchester School of Architecture archives. Joe Jessop (last Head of School but one) and Colin Pugh (current Acting Head of School) in the Sandbar.

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Piscina

Posted on January 20, 2009 by Sally Stone

Piscina carved into the cill at All Saints, Brockhampton, Herefordshire. Architect W.R. Lethaby, 1902. Photoset

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Valley roll

Posted on January 12, 2009 by Sally Stone

New stepped valley constructed in timber and according with best practice. Ready for lining. With the tapered gutter, the pitched roof merges into the sole of the gutter without upstands. Thus, according to the fall of the gutter and the … Continue reading →

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