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Category Archives: Travel
Perfect Match
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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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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Jim and San Souc-i
Electa Bookshop, out of season Ronny Ford has written to us remembering Stirling: In 1991 I made a six-month visit to Italy with the intention of taking in all of the regions and as many of the islands as possible … Continue reading
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The ‘sixties
Slideshow St Nicholas, Fleetwood, Lancashire Architect: Laurence King 1907-1981 Foundation stone laid 1960 West End incomplete.
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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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An architectural tree
Demolition work in a garden has exposed a Cotoneaster plant growing in a gap between buildings. At one point it leant a woody elbow on a projecting rock as it twisted to find the light. (April 2007, Askham, Cumbria)
From the bottom drawer
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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Lutyens in Liverpool
The exhibition of the great model of Lutyens’ project for Liverpool Roman Catholic Cathedral ends on 22 April (Walker Art Gallery website). The building is stupendous: buildings, pylons and aedicules piled up and punctuated by saints mounted on columns and … Continue reading
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Francis Xavier Velarde
St Matthew, Clubmoor, Liverpool by Francis Xavier Velarde (1897-1960). “..built through the generosity of the late Captain Matthew Honan FRIBA…killed in action on November the 14th 1916”. Completed in 1930. The interior is reminiscent of German railway station architecture of … Continue reading
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Distance & Detail: Basilica Palladiana
The building exerts its presence at the urban scale – in the view from Monte Berico, at the local scale – in its relationship with its attendant piazza, and in the geometrical precision of its detail. For more images see: … Continue reading
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Basilica Palladiana
CiA have had a weekend away in N.E. Italy… This is a detail of the Basilica Palladiana in Vicenza. Basilica photoset. Constructed 1549-1614, the familiar facade by Andrea Palladio is essentially a reclothing of the gothic Palazzo della Ragione.
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