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Category Archives: Practice
One site, three buildings
First building: Near left column Second building: Main enveloping structure Third building: New frame for lift and floor
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Interview with Alvaro Siza
Alvaro Siza – Quinta da Malagueira, Évora, Portugal (1977) An edited extract from an interview conducted by Manchester School of Architecture doctoral candidate António Oliviera with the 2009 Royal Gold Medallist Alvaro Siza Vieira AO: What were the principles underlying … Continue reading
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Tagged Alvaro Siza, Evora, innovation, persistence
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“The Architect’s Taskâ€
Two drawings of the Woodside Ventilation Station for the Queensway tunnel beneath the River Mersey. The drawings are from a battered copy of The Story of the Mersey Tunnel Officially Named Queensway published by Charles Birchall and Sons (1934). Excerpt: … Continue reading
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Tagged birkenhead, herbert j rowse, Liverpool, mersey tunnel, queensway, woodside
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Valley roll
New stepped valley constructed in timber and according with best practice. Ready for lining. With the tapered gutter, the pitched roof merges into the sole of the gutter without upstands. Thus, according to the fall of the gutter and the … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture Hacks, CiA, Dominic Roberts, Practice
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When breathed upon or otherwise rendered moist
Two hundred year old roof, Lake District UK. Lead dowel used to fix slates to battens. It is more usual to find timber dowels or iron nails. Westmorland slates reclaimed from the roof. Slates are tested for quality by their … Continue reading
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Uncovering a roof
A two hundred-year old roof, Lake District, UK. Nothing much to say – sometimes you are presented with the facts. How complicated can a simple roof be? Main structure of king-post trusses and tie beams. Plaster and lath ceiling. Spindly … Continue reading
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City to the left, staircase to the right
Illustration from Hans Vredeman de Vries : Pictores, Statvarii, Architecti, Latomi, Et Qvicvnqve Principvm Magnificorvmq[ue] Virorvm Memoriæ Æternæ Inservitis….link to e-book at the University of Heidelberg See also: Science and Art; True Science or Science Fiction? #1: Tinguely, Oliver Byrne, … Continue reading
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The great gates of Preston
Original detailed drawing of the gates to the Harris Museum, Preston 1882-1893. “The architect was the widely unknown James Hibbert”*. Compare the repeated star/sun motif with this house. More pictures of the building… * N. Pevsner in “The Buildings of … Continue reading
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From the hillside
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. Summer Hill near Ulverston in Cumbria in changing light, November 2007. The house is an extension and reuse of one side of a small Georgian country house. Phase 2 of the project will see the conversion … Continue reading
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Tagged cia, continuity, house, ulverston
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Continuity loves Comper
A recent biography of Sir Ninian Comper reasseses the career and reputation of this prolific church architect. The book ‘Sir Ninian Comper’ by Anthony Symondson and Stephen Bucknall is published by Spire Books, and you can read a review (from … Continue reading
A Small Building
An addition to a Victorian gate lodge north of Preston, Lancashire by Dominic Roberts of CiA and Francis Roberts Architects.
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Outram on London
We have added John Outram Associates to our links. “…Looked at today, 3 years after our ‘retirement’ from Battersea in Christmas 1997 – London is looking increasingly like a funfair anyway. The monument to the non-architecture of suburban Bungalow-Culture that … Continue reading
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