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Category Archives: Dominic Roberts
Back to school
Basilica Palladiana: Geometry studies by Sophie Corkhill, BArch student Manchester School of Architecture.
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Eric Parry in the FT
At its heart it’s all about this ‘citiness’, about contributing to the building and the culture of the city. The European city has proved itself the most fascinating receptacle for culture and perhaps it’s a bit of a cheek leaving … Continue reading
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When breathed upon or otherwise rendered moist
Two hundred year old roof, Lake District UK. Lead dowel used to fix slates to battens. It is more usual to find timber dowels or iron nails. Westmorland slates reclaimed from the roof. Slates are tested for quality by their … Continue reading
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Uncovering a roof
A two hundred-year old roof, Lake District, UK. Nothing much to say – sometimes you are presented with the facts. How complicated can a simple roof be? Main structure of king-post trusses and tie beams. Plaster and lath ceiling. Spindly … Continue reading
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Before Sverre Fehn
Oliver Postgate is dead.
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Nostalgia, Sverre Fehn
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Louis Kahn at Rochester
Iqbal Aalam’s flickr photostream includes some evocative slides from his 1967 trip to Kahn’s First Unitarian Church in Rochester NY (dedicated 2 December 1962). A commenter on the flickr site wonders whether Kahn’s building inspired the rooflights at Zumthor’s recently … Continue reading
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Five Hundred Years of Andrea Palladio
Andrea di Pietro della Gondola, born 30 November 1508. The Basilica Palladiana in Vicenza. The red plan is Palladio’s design as depicted in his Quattro Libri. The black plan is the structure as built, incorporating elements of the previous buildings … Continue reading
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Small earthquake?
A rather bland interview with David Dernie, outgoing Head of the Manchester School of Architecture, has appeared on the AJ site: LINK
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Christ the King & Ceri Richards
The Historic Churches Commission has refused to authorise the reordering of the Blessed Sacrament Chapel at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool. The change would have involved siting a new, smaller altar at a lower level. It is … Continue reading
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The Crowd
Preston, England 1926. The dedication of the Cenotaph funded by public subscription and designed by Giles Gilbert Scott. Scott, who was architect of the classic British red telephone box, Liverpool Anglican Cathedral and Tate Modern (Bankside power station), described his … Continue reading
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Le Zep
To Liverpool for one of the talks in the Le Corbusier Lives! season hosted by Liverpool John Moores University, and for a second look at the Corb exhibition in the Metropolitan Cathedral crypt. The talk was actually a series of … Continue reading
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City to the left, staircase to the right
Illustration from Hans Vredeman de Vries : Pictores, Statvarii, Architecti, Latomi, Et Qvicvnqve Principvm Magnificorvmq[ue] Virorvm Memoriæ Æternæ Inservitis….link to e-book at the University of Heidelberg See also: Science and Art; True Science or Science Fiction? #1: Tinguely, Oliver Byrne, … Continue reading
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