Category Archives: Travel

Oddments and Epigrams

 Interventions in Bollington Continuity in Architecture and Bollington Arts Centre are pleased to present: Oddments and Epigrams. An exhibition showcasing work undertaken in Bollington by postgraduate students at the Manchester School of Architecture. For the past few months, the college has … Continue reading

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The Bosphorus

The silhouette of Istanbul, sailing West on the Bosphorus towards the bridge connecting Europe and Asia.

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Muscular Jugendstil

Jugendstil/Art Nouveau building, Istanbul. Note the heavily modelled floral decoration.

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Exhibition Opening

Continuity in Architecture is delighted to announce the opening of an important exhibition of twelve projects from the Erasmus Intensive Workshop held in Venice in Autumn 2011. The show features the work of post-graduate students from the CiA Unit of … Continue reading

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The Coalhouse, Kishorn

  Buildings Outlast Civilisations. Throughout history buildings have been reused and adapted, they survive as culture and civilizations change. The already built provides a direct link with the past; it is a connection with the very building bricks of our … Continue reading

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Nottingham Contemporary

Nottingham Contemporary Art Gallery Caruso St John Architects Completed November 2009 Photoset

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Antwerp Central Railway Station

Antwerpen-Centraal Designed by Louis Delacenserie, inaugurated in the summer of 1905 W G Sebald in the opening passage of Austerlitz recounts a chance encounter and the consequent conversations that took place within the Station. He describes in detail the enormity … Continue reading

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the City: the Building: the Room

Sally Stone has just returned from the Winter School at the University of Antwerp. This important annual event invites academics and architects to run projects upon a specific theme, this years was Transformer.  Antwerp, an important city in northern Belgium, in … Continue reading

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Zumthor’s extinguisher

Fire extinguisher, Diocesan Museum, Cologne. More

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Ortigia

The duomo at Ortigia (Syracuse, Sicily) is built in and around the complete structure of the Greek temple of Athena.

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Església de la Colònia Güell

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Thinking about Josep Llinás

  On a recent visit to Barcelona it was a great pleasure to see once again his Carme Housing in the Raval District. This was always a modest building and seems even more so now that it needs a coat … Continue reading

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