Category Archives: CiA

Venice last week

Posted on October 29, 2007 by Sally Stone

Venice last week.

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CiA at IUAV Venice

Posted on October 28, 2007 by Sally Stone

CiA staffer Sally Stone and her co-author Graeme Brooker have just returned from the “Re-habituation of Interior Space” conference, which was held at the Università IUAV di Venezia in Italy. The theme of the conference was the remodelling and re-use … Continue reading →

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Homage to the square…

Posted on October 25, 2007 by Aventinus

CiA were saddened to hear of the death of the German architect Oswald Mathias Ungers in Cologne aged 81. Ungers exploited a controlled use of geometric form, particularly the square. His work represented a severity which redeemed classical order from … Continue reading →

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Makom at Chatsworth

Posted on October 24, 2007 by Sally Stone

This Inside Then And Apparently (press release): Michal Rovner, the renowned installation artist whose show in the Israeli Pavilion was one of the highlights of the Venice Biennale in 2003, has created a new piece inspired by the grounds and … Continue reading →

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Ara Pacis, Rome 1938

Posted on October 21, 2007 by Sally Stone

A vintage postcard found in a flea market in Preston. It shows the pavilion of 1938 designed by Morpurgo to house the Ara Pacis. This building was recently replaced by a controversial new building designed by Richard Meier discussed in … Continue reading →

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Another crack of the whip?

Posted on October 17, 2007 by Aventinus

The media furore surrounding Doris Salcedo’s installation in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern has tended to remark on the originality of its gesture. Yet in its scale and pseudo-naturalness it would appear to be indebted to the generation of … Continue reading →

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Censed

Posted on October 15, 2007 by Sally Stone

The Church of the Holy Name on Oxford Road (OK, opposite The Academy) was built by the Jesuits between 1869 and 1871 and is one of the great spaces of the University area. It has an unusually wide nave spanned … Continue reading →

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Interior Architecture

Posted on October 10, 2007 by Sally Stone

Sally Stone of CiA and her co-author Graeme Brooker of MMU Interior Design have had their latest book published just in time for the RAE . The book explores the most interesting type of sustainable architecture – the re-use of … Continue reading →

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Card No.10

Posted on October 7, 2007 by Crompton

Brick ruler. One brick is not a brick.

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Sharp Intake

Posted on October 4, 2007 by Aventinus

CiA staffers Eamonn Canniffe and Andrew Crompton recently attended the conference “Town and Townscape: The Work & Life of Thomas Sharp” at the University of Newcastle. The University Library has an archive of Sharp’s personal papers detailing his campaigns for … Continue reading →

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Go Bus: Glancey in Preston

Posted on October 1, 2007 by Sally Stone

Today’s Guardian arts supplement includes a Jonathan Glancey tribute to Preston Bus Station. Much too late to have any effect we fear. According to a recent item in the Lancashire Evening Post the building will be ‘half-demolished’ while a new … Continue reading →

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Transparency

Posted on September 30, 2007 by Sally Stone

Red bucket, new extension to John Rylands Library, Deansgate, Manchester. Photo submitted by a concerned reader. See also…

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