Category Archives: CiA

The Coalhouse, Kishorn

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Sally Stone

  Buildings Outlast Civilisations. Throughout history buildings have been reused and adapted, they survive as culture and civilizations change. The already built provides a direct link with the past; it is a connection with the very building bricks of our … Continue reading →

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Liverpool Lecture

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Sally Stone

Slides from a lecture given by Dominic Roberts at Liverpool School of Architecture, 9 March 2012. Picture: Blackpool Tower on fire, 1897

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Derbyshire Tuscan

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Sally Stone

All Saints RC Church, Hassop, Derbyshire. Designed by Joseph Ireland and built 1816-18.”The design is in the severest Classical Revival style: a correct Etruscan temple front, tetrastyle, prostyle.” (Pevsner, Buildings of England) Photoset 

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Nottingham Contemporary

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Sally Stone

Nottingham Contemporary Art Gallery Caruso St John Architects Completed November 2009 Photoset

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Salisbury

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Sally Stone

Salisbury Cathedral cloister.

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Lattice and Font

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Sally Stone

Lattice and font. St Edward the Confessor, Kempley, Gloucestershire. Randall Wells, architect. More … 

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The Aeronauts go to Ronchamp

Posted on March 6, 2012 by Sally Stone

Three Mirage 2000 jets of L’armée de l’air fly north towards the Franche Comte/Lorraine border in this odd postcard from Ronchamp*. The aerial view is not particularly flattering to a building that was designed to be approached from the slopes … Continue reading →

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the City: the Building: the Room

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Sally Stone

Sally Stone has just returned from the Winter School at the University of Antwerp. This important annual event invites academics and architects to run projects upon a specific theme, this years was Transformer.  Antwerp, an important city in northern Belgium, in … Continue reading →

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Research Studentship

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Sally Stone

  Pugin: the Search for the True Gothic 2012 marks the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, one of the most important architects of the nineteenth century. His approach to the interpretation and creation of a … Continue reading →

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BIM ’69, The Integrated Team

Posted on February 23, 2012 by Sally Stone

This is the cover of the June 1969 issue of BDP Preston in-house magazine ‘Contact’. BDP was founded in Preston and pioneered a team-based, democratic approach to building design in the era of the mandatory fee scale. In this illustration … Continue reading →

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Maisons Jaoul

Posted on February 19, 2012 by Sally Stone

seier+seier’s photograph of Le Corbusier’s Maisons Jaoul. Click here for picture & discussion.

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Zumthor’s extinguisher

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Sally Stone

Fire extinguisher, Diocesan Museum, Cologne. More

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