Category Archives: Manchester

How to end a staircase

Not at all flimsy, the low balustrade makes this octagonal spike seem even bigger than it is. Architect: Alfred Waterhouse, Cheadle Hulme School.

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Best Brick Wall in England?

Moss Side Bus Garage, Manchester, has a splendid arch facing Princess Road, but the side elevation is even more remarkable: it swerves between colossal buttresses with flush Portland stone caps. All the details are odd. Even though it is blemished … Continue reading

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Manchester, so much to answer for

Continuity in Architecture Year 5 students anticipate their arrival in Milan with a series of short films exploring their home city and its different development zones. Spinningfields Manchester (above). City Centre Manchester. Castlefield Manchester. New Islington Manchester.

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Censed

The Church of the Holy Name on Oxford Road (OK, opposite The Academy) was built by the Jesuits between 1869 and 1871 and is one of the great spaces of the University area. It has an unusually wide nave spanned … Continue reading

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Transparency

Red bucket, new extension to John Rylands Library, Deansgate, Manchester. Photo submitted by a concerned reader. See also…

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Champneys’ Champion

This is the full version of a letter published in the Architects’ Journal (AJ) on Wednesday: Letter to the Editor I write as one bereaved. The privilege of pursuing scholarly activities in the John Rylands Library used to be one … Continue reading

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Student work 2007

Beatrice Fasciato, Mixed-use Development, Barcelona. Mixed Media. Ian Scullion, Detournement, Barcelona. Mixed Media Please click here to see more of the student’s work.

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Graduation

CiA students at Bachelor of Architecture Graduation 2007. Click here for more pictures.

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Jonathan Meades

As CiA suspected Jonathan Meades had something to say about Manchester’s urban regeneration. Here is a clip…

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Really Big Windows

Continuity in Architecture direct you to an article published in this week’s Architects Journal that is co-authored by lecturers from the college. Eamonn Canniffe and Sally Stone discuss the new terrace of social housing designed by dMFK Architects in New … Continue reading

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Parliamentary Architecture

To comply with Part M and the DDA Act these University offices have been equipped with tasteful and convenient ramps. If styles of buildings and clothes may be compared this building is a portakabin in a striped shell-suit with a … Continue reading

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Gentle ribbing

Some gentle ribbing of Manchester boosterism in The New Yorker this week.

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