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Category Archives: Precedents
Groovy bricks
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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Hamar, Norway
Hedmarksmuseet, Hamar, Norway. Sverre Fehn’s seminal/iconic/etc. masterwork completed in 1973. A collection of ruins (Archbishop’s fortified palace, manor house) on an important medieval route have been rebuilt/completed using modern building techniques. This has been done in order to display artefacts … Continue reading
Posted in CiA, Dominic Roberts, Interiors, Precedents, Sverre Fehn, Travel
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Topography of Triumph
The Italian Football Squad’s triumphant return to Rome as World Cup winners recalled the entries of previous victors into the city: It is indeed as if the war were still being fought, now for the benefit of the throngs crowding … Continue reading
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Phases of the Porta Maggiore
The Porta Maggiore is familiar today to many visitors to Rome from the view of its thick expressive plane from the elevated tracks of Stazione Termini. Constructed in the middle decades of the first century, the immediate context of the … Continue reading
James Turrell at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Last November we travelled to Yorkshire to experience a series of truly remarkable installations by James Turrell. Location
Posted in CiA, Precedents, Sally Stone, Travel
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Rachel Whiteread at the Tate Modern, April 2006
Posted in Precedents, Sally Stone
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