Category Archives: CiA

Notes from Rome

Posted on February 12, 2009 by Aventinus

James Robertson, the Rome Scholar in Architecture, is approximately half way through his period at the British School at Rome. His research on the ecclesiastical architecture of Jack Coia has revealed many parallels in the twentieth century churches of Rome. … Continue reading →

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Bankers?

Posted on February 10, 2009 by Sally Stone

Cornice detail on the (now empty) Midland Bank, Fishergate, Preston. Bankers 

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Aalto Medal

Posted on February 9, 2009 by Sally Stone

Tegnestuen Vandkunsten have won the 2009 Alvar Aalto Medal of the Finnish Association of Architects. Last year we featured their Copenhagen Torpedo Hall housing. What the jury said…

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Experience & imagination: These were the things I saw

Posted on February 5, 2009 by Sally Stone

XXXII The Temple of Nike from Mars Hill, Athens This is the grandest grouping of the Acroplis. The way in which the whole, in solemn square masses, piles up-the temple dominating all-is marvellous. It is finer, I am sure, in … Continue reading →

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More Mont-de-Huisnes

Posted on February 3, 2009 by Crompton

Door handle at Mont-de-Huisnes German war cemetery, Normandy (built 1967).

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Terry on Palladio

Posted on January 30, 2009 by Sally Stone

…at GABION includes a great picture of an architect’s drawing materials (including portable heater).

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Vitruvian Mine

Posted on January 27, 2009 by Sally Stone

Plan of pit bottom at Bentley Colliery, Yorkshire from Historical Review of Coal Mining published and printed for the Mining Association of Great Britain by Fleetwood Press, circa 1924. Compare with Barleith Colliery, Ayrshire:

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Two Heads

Posted on January 21, 2009 by Sally Stone

One from the Manchester School of Architecture archives. Joe Jessop (last Head of School but one) and Colin Pugh (current Acting Head of School) in the Sandbar.

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Piscina

Posted on January 20, 2009 by Sally Stone

Piscina carved into the cill at All Saints, Brockhampton, Herefordshire. Architect W.R. Lethaby, 1902. Photoset

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By John Rylands Library I sat down and wept…

Posted on January 15, 2009 by Aventinus

While the scholastic gloom of Basil Champneys’s John Rylands Library (1899) on Deansgate in Manchester perhaps offers no direct model for contemporary emulation, the quality of its construction and longevity of its use and occupation present a sharp riposte to … Continue reading →

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Mont-de-Huisnes, Normandy

Posted on January 13, 2009 by Crompton

This German war cemetery, Mont-de-Huisnes, Normandy, 1967, is very beautifully detailed. From the grass roof one has a view of Mont-Saint-Michel rising like a mystic city from the sea. Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge (Peoples Association for the Care of German War … Continue reading →

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Valley roll

Posted on January 12, 2009 by Sally Stone

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 →

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