Category Archives: Liverpool

Model Scale

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Sally Stone

The Great Model of Lutyens’ project for Liverpool RC Cathedral.

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Christ the King & Ceri Richards

Posted on November 23, 2008 by Sally Stone

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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Le Zep

Posted on October 31, 2008 by Sally Stone

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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Le Corbusier: The Art of Architecture

Posted on October 9, 2008 by Aventinus

To Liverpool for the architectural event of the autumn – the collision between Lutyens and Le Corbusier in the Metropolitan Cathedral Crypt. Unfortunately the overbearing and labyrinthine staging of the exhibition makes what might have been an interesting combat between … Continue reading →

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Eisenman in Liverpool!

Posted on September 18, 2008 by Sally Stone

OK, the main event is obviously the opening of the Corb exhibition in Lutyens’ crypt (the subtitle ‘The Art of Architecture’ doesn’t inspire) but Peter Eisenman has got to be worth a trip. Peter Eisenman: Architecture and the Cultural Project … Continue reading →

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Reciprocity

Posted on July 13, 2008 by Sally Stone

Intended context and current condition (slideshow).

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Lutyens damaged door mystery

Posted on May 12, 2008 by Crompton

Doors at the end of the long gallery in Lutyens’s crypt at Liverpool Cathedral are peppered with holes: how come? (Answer in comments)

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Lutyens in Liverpool

Posted on April 4, 2007 by Sally Stone

The exhibition of the great model of Lutyens’ project for Liverpool Roman Catholic Cathedral ends on 22 April (Walker Art Gallery website). The building is stupendous: buildings, pylons and aedicules piled up and punctuated by saints mounted on columns and … Continue reading →

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The Greatest

Posted on February 18, 2007 by Sally Stone

Edwin Lutyens was the greatest British architect of the twentieth century. The crowning achievement of his career would have been the construction of the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Liverpool. Of course, the building was never completed – construction, started in … Continue reading →

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