CONTINUITY IN ARCHITECTURE

Gate 81 Preston Bus Station

Dominic Roberts — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:45:47 +0000

The Gate 81 project hacklab/workshop/charette has been arranged for May 2013. Link: Gate 81 Hacklab Email for info@gate81.com if you are interested in taking part.

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Scottish Ballet Headquarters

Sally Stone — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:06:37 +0000

Recently CiA were honoured to receive a guided tour the Scottish Ballet Head Quarters in Glasgow, by the project architect, Clive Albert of Malcolm Fraser Architects. The building shares an entrance with the Tramway Gallery, and we although we had been warned about the inauspicious entrance, as...

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FORGOTTEN SPACES

Sally Stone — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:22:51 +0000

Continuity in Architecture is almost twenty years old. It is something that we would like to celebrate and we fully intend to mark the occasion with some sort of jamboree or other such event. Look out for further posts. Over the years we have conducted projects in many [...]

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Gate 81: Workshop at the University in Antwerp

Sally Stone — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 14:46:02 +0000

ANTWERP INTERRUPTED Link to student projects “…I would say that even in historic times documents are not always available, and buildings (monuments, vernacular constructions and public works) are themselves important texts, often providing the first and most lasting impression of a [...]

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Preston Bus Station fights for life

Sally Stone — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 21:07:23 +0000

All our Preston Bus Station posts. The demolition vote is being held by Preston City Council on Monday 17th December. The Council’s background documentation is here … Including costings and rejected urban design proposals.

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The Bosphorus

Dominic Roberts — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 09:44:02 +0000

The silhouette of Istanbul, sailing West on the Bosphorus towards the bridge connecting Europe and Asia.

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Muscular Jugendstil

Dominic Roberts — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 16:25:33 +0000

Jugendstil/Art Nouveau building, Istanbul. Note the heavily modelled floral decoration.

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Isolated doorway

Dominic Roberts — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:23:20 +0000

Next to the baptistery, Santa Sophia, Istanbul.

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If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller

Sally Stone — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 21:08:28 +0000

Projects in Venice and Cartmel This year Continuity in Architecture will offer two projects, one at home and the other away, but both have a strong connection with water and with travel. “It is very old, and very grand, and bent-backed. Its towers survey the lagoon in crotchety...

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End of Year Exhibition

Sally Stone — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 08:56:58 +0000

ON THE INDUSTRIAL RUINS Continuity in Architecture has run two projects this year, both in post-industrial cities: Preston and Barcelona. Each city has approached the problem of how to transform the unban environment to accommodate the needs of the twenty-first century population in a different...

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