Category Archives: Nostalgia

The Aeronauts go to Ronchamp

Posted on March 6, 2012 by Sally Stone

Three Mirage 2000 jets of L’armée de l’air fly north towards the Franche Comte/Lorraine border in this odd postcard from Ronchamp*. The aerial view is not particularly flattering to a building that was designed to be approached from the slopes … Continue reading →

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BIM ’69, The Integrated Team

Posted on February 23, 2012 by Sally Stone

This is the cover of the June 1969 issue of BDP Preston in-house magazine ‘Contact’. BDP was founded in Preston and pioneered a team-based, democratic approach to building design in the era of the mandatory fee scale. In this illustration … Continue reading →

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The ‘fifties from above

Posted on December 4, 2009 by Sally Stone

Following the visit of MA Urban Design students from MMU to our fair city this week, I offer an aerial photo set of Preston in the ‘fifties (before the clearance of factories, mills and much else). All the photos

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Jeremy Deller’s Procession

Posted on July 6, 2009 by Aventinus

Jeremy Deller’s Procession, Manchester, 5 July 2009 While the commissioning of an art event might not have the authentic resonance of a traditional urban ritual (such as the Roman Triumph, or Holy Week in Seville), this populist production for the … Continue reading →

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Fifties Neo-Vernacular

Posted on June 14, 2009 by Sally Stone

Small black and white prints found in the plan chest. I believe these show new buildings for Gresham’s School in Holt, Norfolk designed by Grenfell Baines & Hargreaves of Preston (later renamed Building Design Partnership) and photographed soon after completion … Continue reading →

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Before Sverre Fehn

Posted on December 9, 2008 by Sally Stone

Oliver Postgate is dead.

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Louis Kahn at Rochester

Posted on December 8, 2008 by Sally Stone

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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Peter Eisenman or Steve Martin?

Posted on November 20, 2008 by Aventinus

Summer 1983: A restaurant in the North End of Boston with students from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Where are they now?

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Old Manchester

Posted on September 26, 2008 by Sally Stone

In the period before Manchester’s recent building boom Leach Rhodes and Walker was the finishing school for a number of Manchester School of Architecture tutorial staff (not me!) and was the source of countless amusing anecdotes about commercial architectural practice. … Continue reading →

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Old Manchester Town Hall 1834-1912

Posted on August 26, 2008 by Crompton

Architecture in the raw Photographed just before its destruction in 1912 Manchester’s pre-Waterhouse Town Hall was the subject of study by students at the Manchester School of Architecture published in 1915. Few buildings of this quality have ever been demolished … Continue reading →

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Arcosolium

Posted on July 21, 2008 by Sally Stone

Nostalgia…The Brion tomb (1969-1978) near Treviso by Carlo Scarpa, note the sarcophagi leaning towards each other below the reinforced concrete arch. Arcosolium

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Reciprocity

Posted on July 13, 2008 by Sally Stone

Intended context and current condition (slideshow).

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