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Category Archives: Precedents
EMBT Housing, Barcelona
The slightly warped orthogonal form of the housing next to the Santa Caterina market contrasts strongly with the flowing roof canopy of the market building. The contextual deformations of the housing appear responsive and natural in the tight urban landscape. … Continue reading
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Adolf Loos: Anachronistically Alpine?
Following the Christmas post below, a few slides of the Khuner House by Adolf Loos (1930).Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. Contemporary to the whitewashed masterpieces of his last phase…this country house that is so vernacular, so anachronistically alpine, so rustic, raises … Continue reading
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Querini Stampalia Foundation
On a recent visit to Venice, Continuity in Architecture noted the changes that have been made to Carlo Scarpa’s masterly interpretation of the Venetian Palazzo, the Querini Stampalia Foundation. These changes are apparent even before entering the building, Scarpa’s delicate … Continue reading
Posted in Carlo Scarpa, CiA, Interiors, Italy, Precedents, Sally Stone, Venice
Tagged Italy, Remodelling, Scarpa, Venice
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Hexagonal Plan
Never to make a hexagonal building is good advice for any architecture student, but sometimes nothing else will do. The Edgware Road Music Hall was a masterpiece of planning with segregated circulation systems for stalls and pit and not an … Continue reading
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Makom at Chatsworth
This Inside Then And Apparently (press release): Michal Rovner, the renowned installation artist whose show in the Israeli Pavilion was one of the highlights of the Venice Biennale in 2003, has created a new piece inspired by the grounds and … Continue reading
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Interior Architecture
Sally Stone of CiA and her co-author Graeme Brooker of MMU Interior Design have had their latest book published just in time for the RAE . The book explores the most interesting type of sustainable architecture – the re-use of … Continue reading
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De Carlo’s Il Magistero
De Carlo’s Il Magistero: a case study in continuity? University of Manchester Ph. D candidate Hacer Basarir’s project concerns the conservation of walled cities and their key elements through reuse. Her research includes three case-studies, and she has just completed … Continue reading
By the ‘Colegio del Patriarca’, Valencia
An infill scheme in the Plaza del Colegio del Patriarca in Valencia uses an arcaded screen derived from the blind arches in the adjacent building to produce an understated urban form. I have no information about the date of the … Continue reading
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The Staatsgalerie Downhill
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
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, James Stirling, Nostalgia, Precedents
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Frankenstein in Leicester
Leicester University Engineering Building Architect: Stirling and Gowan 1959 In the engineering building at the University of Leicester by Stirling and Gowan, the profession was presented with its Frankenstein, amidst a concert of maidenish squeaks that have not yet died … Continue reading
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Two houses
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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Alvaro Siza in Evora
Further to the recent post about James Stirling’s housing in Runcorn we present these images of Alvaro Siza’s project for housing in Quinta da Malagueira outside the ancient city of Evora. Begun in 1977, the neighbourhood is an immediate product … Continue reading
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