Category Archives: CiA

Corb in twenty-four

Posted on June 3, 2008 by Crompton

The bow-tie appears at 6.00 am. The hat changes but the spectacles are constant, not vanishing until just before midnight, although they were raised briefly after lunch. Image: Collage at the Musée Picasso Corb v Lutyens

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Graphic

Posted on May 29, 2008 by Sally Stone

From The Economist

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Ben Kelly: Off the peg

Posted on May 28, 2008 by Sally Stone

This month’s issue of AD Magazine, Interior Atmospheres, contains an article by CiA staffer Sally Stone with her regular co-author Graeme Brooker. The piece, entitled “Off the Peg: The Bespoke Interiors of Ben Kelly” was based upon an interview with … Continue reading →

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Not only bears

Posted on May 22, 2008 by Crompton

This skeuomorphic concrete toilet is embossed to look like a house in the woods.

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Philharmonie burns

Posted on May 20, 2008 by Sally Stone

BBC film and news item. Virtual tour.

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Nossa Senhora de Fatima, Lisbon

Posted on May 19, 2008 by Aventinus

Porfirio Pardal Monteiro: Church of Nossa Senhora de Fatima, Lisbon (1938) This suburban church from the late 1930s presents a curious hybrid of architectural languages and materials. Its interior is formed in a gloomy concrete gothic, lit only by dramatic … Continue reading →

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Rumble in the (urban) jungle

Posted on May 15, 2008 by Aventinus

Milan is the latest location for the on-off face-off between Daniel Libeskind and Rem Koolhaas, in the form of two rival museum projects for the city. Previous to this bout Koolhaas (the most provocative historian of New York) declined to … Continue reading →

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Lutyens damaged door mystery

Posted on May 12, 2008 by Crompton

Doors at the end of the long gallery in Lutyens’s crypt at Liverpool Cathedral are peppered with holes: how come? (Answer in comments)

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Make good?

Posted on May 9, 2008 by Sally Stone

The RIBA Journal is suddenly worth reading again: Resistance Movement.

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Meier versus Mayor

Posted on May 8, 2008 by Aventinus

Is their heritage safe in Roman hands? To return to a question which has been asked previously on this blog, the new ‘post-fascist’ Mayor of Rome, Gianni Alemanno, has raked up an old controversy with his suggestion that Richard Meier’s … Continue reading →

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Muzio v Ponti

Posted on May 6, 2008 by Sally Stone

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. Giovanni Muzio’s Ca Brutta (1923) faces Gio Ponti’s Palazzo Montecatini (1936) across the junction of Via Fillipo Turati and Via Moscova in Milan. The buildings were completed within fifteen years of each other and display different … Continue reading →

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Academic reads Telegraph shock

Posted on May 1, 2008 by Sally Stone

Our own Andrew Crompton describes the front page of the Daily Telegraph as “a thing of beauty”. More beautiful perhaps than the usual academic read: Guardian Education jobs. Link to Daily Telegraph article.

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