Category Archives: CiA

Card No.18

Posted on May 5, 2007 by Crompton

An egg drawn with compasses. A circle drawn without them.

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Groovy bricks

Posted on May 3, 2007 by Crompton

This rusticated brick wall effect is achieved with just three specials, (allowing for cutting). Holkham Hall, Norfolk, Architect, William Kent, c.1765.

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Edgar Wood Skating Mystery

Posted on April 25, 2007 by Crompton

A book of great architects skating would be necessarily brief but would certainly contain this splendid image of the dashing Edgar Wood. Uncovered by CiA in the Manchester Art Gallery archives this photograph has been mutilated possibly to cut off … Continue reading →

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Parliamentary Architecture

Posted on April 24, 2007 by Crompton

To comply with Part M and the DDA Act these University offices have been equipped with tasteful and convenient ramps. If styles of buildings and clothes may be compared this building is a portakabin in a striped shell-suit with a … Continue reading →

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MOdAM Research

Posted on April 22, 2007 by Aventinus

Continuity in Architecture Year 5 studio projects for a Museum and School of Fashion in Milan, an element of the Citta della Moda masterplan. This film shows excerpts from the students’ research work with the design projects to follow shortly.

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Card No.19

Posted on April 21, 2007 by Crompton

What the client doesn’t know…but fortunately you do

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Sir John Soane’s Coloured Glass

Posted on April 12, 2007 by Crompton

The current fashion for coloured glass and plastic in buildings goes backfurther than Donald Judd coloured boxes from the 1960’s. Sir John Soane usedsheets of yellow tinted glass to give a warm glow in his Dulwich mausoleumand red glass shown … Continue reading →

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Gentle ribbing

Posted on April 9, 2007 by Sally Stone

Some gentle ribbing of Manchester boosterism in The New Yorker this week.

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Card No.20

Posted on April 9, 2007 by Crompton
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Chapel of the Resurrection

Posted on April 8, 2007 by Sally Stone

Photoset

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The house with no windows

Posted on April 6, 2007 by Crompton

Not a Photoshop job. This house on the escarpment at Tyldesley, Lancashire answers Louis Kahn’s old question – ‘What does a brick want to be?’ by turning its back on a busy road. It reminds me of the line in … Continue reading →

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Lutyens in Liverpool

Posted on April 4, 2007 by Sally Stone

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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