Category Archives: Nostalgia

French concrete brut mystery

Posted on July 6, 2008 by Crompton

This photograph was taken in France in the 1950’s by architect John Sagar. Can anyone identify this wonderful concrete structure? Update 12 July: See comments

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LOXFORD TOWER RIP

Posted on December 23, 2007 by Sally Stone

 It may interest ex-Manchester Polytechnic students of Architecture that Loxford Building is being demolished. Although the School of Architecture moved out of the building some eight or so years ago, for many years before that it was the seat of … Continue reading →

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Stirling’s Preston Housing

Posted on August 20, 2007 by Sally Stone

Fifty years ago James Stirling* was commissioned to design new housing for Preston. The scheme was completed in 1962 and was one of his earliest built projects in independent practice. In ‘Complete Works 1950-1974’ the scheme is illustrated alongside a … Continue reading →

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Perfect Match

Posted on August 1, 2007 by Sally Stone

The Wedding Tower at the Matildenhoe, Darmstadt 1906-1909. Architect: Josef Maria Olbrich. The tower was erected to commemorate the marriage of the Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig to Princess Eleonore zu Solms-Hohensolms-Lich on 2 February 1905. On the top floor is … Continue reading →

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The Staatsgalerie Downhill

Posted on June 28, 2007 by Sally Stone

Views of Stirling’s Staatsgalerie tend to show the front of the building with its extraordinary denial of the conventional facade in favour of an array of architectural motifs grounded in a stylised ruin – the approach from Konrad-Adenauer-Strasse invites the … Continue reading →

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Rogue Mail

Posted on June 18, 2007 by Aventinus

Stirling stamps. James Stirling 22 April 1926 – 25 June 1992

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James Stirling: History Faculty

Posted on June 5, 2007 by Sally Stone

Taken inside James Stirling’s History Faculty Building at the University of Cambridge, 1967. James Stirling 22 April 1926 – 25 June 1992

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First of the Star Architects?

Posted on June 4, 2007 by Aventinus

This month marks the fifteenth anniversary of the death of James Stirling during a botched hernia operation. We will be publishing a series of posts remembering and celebrating the great architect. The critic Colin Rowe claimed that James Stirling’s mother … Continue reading →

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Two houses

Posted on May 31, 2007 by Sally Stone

House of the Suicide and House of the Mother of the Suicide by John Hejduk, Prague Castle, 2000. Georgia Institute of Technology Canadian Centre for Architecture. Architecture Week and for a fuller explanation… Books by John Hejduk Photograph taken at … Continue reading →

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From the bottom drawer

Posted on May 9, 2007 by Sally Stone

I found these photographs (taken c.1988?) in the bottom of a plan chest drawer. They show James Stirling’s Runcorn Housing which was designed in 1967, built 1970-1977 and demolished in 1990. Read what Stirling had to say about the original … Continue reading →

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