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Category Archives: Milan
Fifth Floor Shop Window 2
The second shop window by Year 5 is open for viewing on the Fifth Floor of Chatham Building, and what a delight it is that it is free of seasonal commerciality. Themed around the recent field trip to Milan, its … Continue reading
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“…that YSL Muse bag, it’s universal.”
Vanessa Friedman in Saturday’s Financial Times (11/12.11.06) discusses the universal language of fashion. She describes a party that she attended in Tokyo and says that “even though I couldn’t understand a word that was being said at the party, I … Continue reading
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Slaves to Architecture
As your correspondents strolled leisurely through Milan after a long and ample lunch, we observed that the city was indeed as ‘tough as nails’, as Yvonne Farrell had remarked. The general lack of exterior detail on the early twentieth century … Continue reading
Events, dear boy, events…
Continuity in Architecture hosted an afternoon of guest lectures on Thursday 26 October. Three speakers brought the clear light of practice into the stygian unknowingness of the Cordingley Lecture Theatre and demonstrated to an intent audience that the field of … Continue reading
Milano Possibile
In 1998, when ‘Continuity in Architecture’ was ‘Atelier Italia’, we ran a series of projects in Turin and Milan. The short Milan project asked for a scheme for one end of a less celebrated leg of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele. … Continue reading
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Fifth Floor Shop Window
Continuity in Architecture students present he first in a series of shop windows for CITY – ARCHITECTURE – FASHION. Watch this space…
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Studio Programme 2006/2007
BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE 2006/2007 MILAN: ON WITH THE MOTLEY… The relationship between forms of architecture and modes of dress has been theorised by the likes of Gottfried Semper, Otto Wagner and Adolf Loos since the middle of the nineteenth century. … Continue reading
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City of Fashion? Where’s the architecture?
Cesar Pelli’s project for the Citta della Moda in Milan brings to mind the following thoughts: While private entities seek to extend their control over urban space and public bodies surrender management to commercial concerns, the iconography of the public … Continue reading
Monument and Sign
“In the San Lorenzo we see today, the various types of additions to it, from the medieval … to the Renaissance …, are still apparent, while the entire structure occupies the place of the ancient Roman baths, in the very … Continue reading
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