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Category Archives: Precedents
Olivetti Showroom
Carlo Scarpa was commissioned to design the Olivetti Showroom in 1956 and the work was completed over the next couple of years. The site was awkward, long and thin, and at about four meters high, hardly able to support a … Continue reading
Posted in Carlo Scarpa, CiA, Interiors, Italy, Precedents, Sally Stone, Travel, Venice
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Most people just go to see the building
Richard Meier’s new Arp Museum sits on a wooded slope overlooking the Rhine near Remagen. It is conceived as an annexe to the existing Rolandseck railway station which is also mostly converted to exhibition space, although the trains still stop. … Continue reading
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Mitteleuropa, Precedents
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A fragment of the Arts & Crafts city
Travelling to London from the north-west of England and faced with Euston Road on emerging from the railway station, it is tempting to turn around and get back on the train. Luckily it is first possible to stand and admire … Continue reading
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Precedents
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Basilika, Trier
The building now known as the Basilika in Trier, Germany was actually the throne room of the Emperor Constantine and formed part of a wider palace complex when the city was a capital of the Roman Empire. The footprint of … Continue reading
Posted in Churches, CiA, Dominic Roberts, Mitteleuropa, Precedents, Travel
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Arcosolium
Nostalgia…The Brion tomb (1969-1978) near Treviso by Carlo Scarpa, note the sarcophagi leaning towards each other below the reinforced concrete arch. Arcosolium
Posted in Carlo Scarpa, CiA, Dominic Roberts, Italy, Nostalgia, Precedents
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Reciprocity
Intended context and current condition (slideshow).
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Edwin Lutyens, Liverpool, Nostalgia, Precedents
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Two worlds
The Economist Building (photoset) and Robin Hood Gardens Design Competition (BD Online)
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Muzio v Ponti
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. Giovanni Muzio’s Ca Brutta (1923) faces Gio Ponti’s Palazzo Montecatini (1936) across the junction of Via Fillipo Turati and Via Moscova in Milan. The buildings were completed within fifteen years of each other and display different … Continue reading
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Gio Ponti, Giovanni Muzio, Italy, Milan, Precedents, Travel
Tagged cabrutta, milano, montecatini, muzio, ponti
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Torpedo Hall
We have been corresponding with an architect member of the the design team for this project at Danish practice Tegnestuen Vandkunsten. The scheme involved stripping back the existing building, a hangar for the maintenance of torpedo boats, and inserting apartments … Continue reading
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Friends & Acquaintances, Precedents
Tagged copenhagen, denmark, hall, holmen, torpedo
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Pilar and Joan Miró Foundation
The designer can create small valuable elements within a much larger composition that can affect the quality of a much larger space. Within the hot climate of Mallorca, Rafael Moneo has used the natural qualities of light and water to … Continue reading
Posted in CiA, Precedents, Sally Stone, Spain, Stone/Brooker, Travel
Tagged brooker, mallorca, miro, moneo, palma, stone
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Church Of Christ Scientist, Manchester
This triple height chapel has been carved from the lower floors of a banal office block on Peter Street in Manchester. The large room or volume is surrounded by circulation space, through which shines natural light. The long light from … Continue reading
Posted in Churches, CiA, Interiors, Manchester, Precedents, Sally Stone, Stone/Brooker
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St Paul’s Church and Community Centre
St Paul’s Church and Community Centre, London England, Matthew Lloyd Architects, 2004 The church at Bow is a collection of assorted elements gathered together in one building. It is modestly gothic (1878) with a cylindrical three-storey bell tower, very … Continue reading
Posted in Churches, CiA, Interiors, Precedents, Sally Stone, Stone/Brooker
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