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Category Archives: CiA
Holiday viewing
wannes deprez / ony one maintains one of the most consistently interesting and entertaining photostreams that I have found on flickr. Scans from books and magazines depicting visionary modernist projects are interspersed with pictures of the architects themselves. Photostream
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts
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Antler-shaped building
Berlage’s St Hubertus hunting lodge (1914-1920) built near Otterlo for the Kroller Muller family. The building, with its tower for spotting prey, sits on the edge of a lake in the Nationaal Park De Hoge Veluwe one of the must-visit … Continue reading
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Travel
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On tour
Most of us will be on tour in August. We’ll try to post, depending on availability of wireless access on German campsites.
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Travel
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Unpopular Culture
CIA recommends the strangely subdued exhibition at the Harris Museum in Preston. The Turner Prize winning artist Grayson Perry has selected pieces from the Arts Council Collection. This very restrained and slightly dark collection is predominantly modern and many of … Continue reading
Posted in CiA, Preston, Sally Stone
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Primitive – Rustic – Classical
CiA recommends a visit to Tate Liverpool to see the exhibition GUSTAV KLIMT: PAINTING, DESIGN AND MODERN LIFE.The Klimt paintings, including the reconstruction of the Beethoven Frieze created for the Vienna Secession in 1902, present a necessarily limited selection of … Continue reading
Posted in Aventinus, CiA, Mitteleuropa
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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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On the one hand…
An example of publicity material for urban regeneration in Preston…LINK
Posted in CiA, Preston, Sally Stone
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Vilhelm Hammershøi
CiA recommend the Vilhelm Hammershøi exhibition at the Royal Academy, London. Hammershøi’s cool interiors and distinctive grey-themed palette have attracted considerable attention for their restrained elegance and quiet power. The calm surroundings of the Sackler Galleries are particularly suitable for … Continue reading
Posted in CiA, Interiors, Sally Stone
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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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Waterhouse and Harris – safe in their hands?
Further to a post earlier this year the potential fate of Manchester Town Hall (Alfred Waterhouse), its Extension and Central Library (E. Vincent Harris) becomes clearer. The Manchester Evening News story about the future of the most significant urban and … Continue reading
Posted in Aventinus, Buildings at Risk, CiA, E Vincent Harris, Manchester
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‘Not manly enough’
Monday, 7 July 2008: ‘Not manly enough’: Berlusconi’s verdict on Libeskind work Perhaps, when the architect Daniel Libeskind produced his grand plans for an art museum and office tower designed to inspire civic pride in the heart of Milan, he … Continue reading