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Louis Kahn (1901–74) was an architect who designed buildings that looked like castles; this was true whether they were small Philadelphia villas or vast institutions such as his parliamentary complex in Dhaka. His style – which he arrived at only in his fifties – is characterised by what look like thick fortified walls of massive masonry pierced by simple geometrical shapes and sometimes topped…
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An architectural frieze is the icing on the cake, for a building
An architectural frieze is the icing on the cake, for a building
Mon, 22 Feb 2021 19:14:12 +0000
An architectural frieze is the icing on the cake, for a building
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If you have ever approached Termini station in Rome, you may have noticed a frieze on the edge of the slender canopy. It is quiet and subtle, a discreet touch of abstract ornamentation on the leading edge of a slice of otherwise unadorned and exquisitely mid-century modernism. Think back to The Godfather Part II, and you may remember a silent, unsettling character who acts as bodyguard and hitman…
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Thu, 18 Feb 2021 19:47:55 +0000
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From the January 2021 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. Given the ancient character of the craft, architecture school is a comparatively recent cultural phenomenon. Emerging from a soup of pupillage, guild-based apprenticeships and enthusiastic amateurship, the idea that you could train architects away from the building site only really took form in 17th-century France, when the…
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From the Apollo archives – Gavin Stamp on the sorry saga of Edinburgh’s Royal High School
From the Apollo archives – Gavin Stamp on the sorry saga of Edinburgh’s Royal High School
Thu, 11 Feb 2021 18:07:10 +0000
From the Apollo archives – Gavin Stamp on the sorry saga of Edinburgh’s Royal High School
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Edinburgh City Council recently announced plans to reconsider the future use of Thomas Hamilton’s Royal High School on Calton Hill, ending a deal with developers who had pledged in 2009 to find a sustainable purpose for the building. The High School, a masterpiece of the Scottish Greek Revival, has long lain empty; in 2015 plans to transform it into a luxury hotel were widely condemned by heritage…
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Making an appearance – architectural copies and cover versions
Making an appearance – architectural copies and cover versions
Tue, 01 Dec 2020 17:32:39 +0000
Making an appearance – architectural copies and cover versions
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What is a fake building? Unlike artworks, buildings aren’t faked for short-term or financial gain; they cost too much and take too much time to build for that. And for the most part they are highly visible, so their provenance is much harder to hide. To speak of fakes in relation to buildings is to talk about a lack of authenticity rather than deliberate deceit. Authenticity can imply a number of…
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From Buxton to the Barbican – the enduring appeal of the crescent
From Buxton to the Barbican – the enduring appeal of the crescent
Thu, 05 Nov 2020 10:41:21 +0000
From Buxton to the Barbican – the enduring appeal of the crescent
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This article was published in the November 2020 issue of Apollo. The Pump Room and visitor experience at Buxton Crescent are currently closed due to Covid-19; visitors are advised to check the venue website for further updates. The 5th Duke of Devonshire was a man with little self-doubt. His vast wealth from the local copper mines bankrolled the transformation of a small town in the Derbyshire…
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Why are Berlin’s new buildings so intent on looking backwards?
Why are Berlin’s new buildings so intent on looking backwards?
Tue, 20 Oct 2020 17:16:36 +0000
Why are Berlin’s new buildings so intent on looking backwards?
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Berlin is a city in reverse, if its buildings are anything to go by: each year great swathes of it are transformed into an approximation of the imperial capital it once was. This process has come to a head with the resurrection of the Berlin Palace, which, after numerous setbacks, is due to open in December as a museum, but its effects can be seen throughout the capital, and indeed the country as…
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Mon, 21 Sep 2020 11:29:41 +0000
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The architectural historian Mark Girouard had equivocal feelings about researching his book The English Town: A History of Urban Life (1990). He appreciated that it had given him the opportunity to make the case that the Victorian cityscape, long denigrated as an unforgivable hodgepodge of pestilent slums, gloomy factories and pompous town halls, was in fact as worthy of celebration as the…
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Redeeming features – how Palladio marked the end of the plague in Venice
Redeeming features – how Palladio marked the end of the plague in Venice
Mon, 13 Jul 2020 13:58:32 +0000
Redeeming features – how Palladio marked the end of the plague in Venice
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On the weekend of the third Sunday of every July, a pontoon bridge is constructed between St Mark’s Square in Venice and the church of Il Redentore (‘The Redeemer’) on the island of Giudecca. Called the Festa del Redentore, the weekend-long ceremony is known for its spectacular display of fireworks towards midnight and nocturnal revelry thereafter. But when the ceremony takes place this year – on…
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Wed, 08 Jul 2020 09:55:26 +0000
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Earth as a building material is, simply, as old as the hills. As a small child I remember modelling a ‘Saxon’ village in clay, an exercise which might not have met modern curriculum standards but combined a light-touch history lesson with the satisfaction of kneading wet mud. Jean Dethier’s immense, collaborative and globally inclusive new book The Art of Earth Architecture: Past, Present, Future…
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‘Like the sudden revelation of something ancient’ – in praise of contemporary follies
‘Like the sudden revelation of something ancient’ – in praise of contemporary follies
Sat, 06 Jun 2020 08:00:34 +0000
‘Like the sudden revelation of something ancient’ – in praise of contemporary follies
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At some point in the future an explorer will cut their way through the undergrowth of a sprawling jungle on the site of Teddington, a few miles to the south-west of the remains of the city of London, and come across what looks like a fragment of an ancient Roman temple. A pair of pale brick columns, constructed with the headers facing outwards in a sea of mortar, and framed by shadowy pilasters…
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‘Living in it would be delectable but exhausting’ – at the Villa Majorelle
‘Living in it would be delectable but exhausting’ – at the Villa Majorelle
Mon, 30 Mar 2020 11:14:54 +0000
‘Living in it would be delectable but exhausting’ – at the Villa Majorelle
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Before modernists such as Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier staked their claim to being the true stylists of industrial society, a generation of designers all over Europe had made their own attempts to reconcile art and the machine age. Decades before white-painted concrete walls and tubular steel furniture were the rage, art nouveau turned new mass-production techniques to forms derived directly…
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Instant classic – the many versions of St Martin-in-the-Fields
Instant classic – the many versions of St Martin-in-the-Fields
Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:45:59 +0000
Instant classic – the many versions of St Martin-in-the-Fields
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In July 1720 – almost 300 years ago – the commissioners of St Martin-in-the-Fields solicited designs from London’s leading architects for a new church in which to worship. The architect that they selected from this highly competitive field was James Gibbs (1682–1754), one of the most exciting and original architects then working in the capital. The church that was built over the following years…
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Cooling towers are a powerful presence in the landscape – and deserve to be saved
Cooling towers are a powerful presence in the landscape – and deserve to be saved
Mon, 24 Feb 2020 13:38:36 +0000
Cooling towers are a powerful presence in the landscape – and deserve to be saved
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The Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire is one of the most beautiful places in England. Tourists visit it as the ‘Birthplace of the Industrial Revolution’ and as a UNESCO World Heritage site. I suspect many of them are surprised to find these historic industrial attractions embedded within such a lushly Arcadian landscape, in which the River Severn carves through steep wooded hills on which dark…
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‘These remarkable examples of Mughal technology spoke to an India freed from British rule’
‘These remarkable examples of Mughal technology spoke to an India freed from British rule’
Thu, 20 Feb 2020 11:30:32 +0000
‘These remarkable examples of Mughal technology spoke to an India freed from British rule’
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The Jantar Mantar in Delhi is famous for its 13 astronomical instruments, construction of which began under Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II (1688–1743) of Jaipur in the 1720s, and completed after his death. The park is empty when we visit and the giant triangle known as the Samrat Yantra, or Supreme Instrument, looms out of the heavy smog, as surreal and unsettling as a De Chirico painting. The…
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‘If James Wines’ greatest works were still around, they would be Instagram sensations’
‘If James Wines’ greatest works were still around, they would be Instagram sensations’
Wed, 05 Feb 2020 10:45:19 +0000
‘If James Wines’ greatest works were still around, they would be Instagram sensations’
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Ghost Parking Lot was one of the eeriest, most sinister and most striking pieces of 20th-century land art. The lumpy shapes of automobiles were discernible beneath a gloopy blanket of grey-black asphalt, a landscape of parking – at a shopping mall in Hamden, Connecticut – in which the cars and the surface built for them melded into one. The work was a remarkable comment on the expansion of the…
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What can be done to save England’s neglected parish churches?
What can be done to save England’s neglected parish churches?
Thu, 23 Jan 2020 17:22:11 +0000
What can be done to save England’s neglected parish churches?
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While you have to fight your way through crowds in Cambridge to see the gothic splendour of King’s College Chapel, in the countryside around the city you will most likely find the parish churches that served Cambridgeshire’s medieval villages deserted. But – to take one example – the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Harlton, a few miles to the south-west of Cambridge, has an imposing east…
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Thu, 19 Dec 2019 14:53:07 +0000
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A new and beautifully illustrated book on Henbury Hall by the architectural historian Jeremy Musson, full of wonderful photography, drawings, letters and portraits, raises the old question of the ‘problem’ building, the one that most writers and critics find hard to discuss. For Henbury, near Macclesfield in Cheshire, is the 1980s progeny of Andrea Palladio’s Villa Rotunda outside Vicenza, and was…
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Wed, 27 Nov 2019 10:47:08 +0000
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There is a great urban legend about Tower Bridge. It goes that in 1967 the American entrepreneur Robert P. McCulloch purchased the stone facings of the demolished ‘New’ London Bridge in the belief that he was buying those of its neighbour less than a mile downstream. It’s very easy to see why – the neoclassical bridge of 1831 was elegant but not particularly striking, whereas who could forget the…
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From cinemas to service stations – the modernist marvels of Eritrea
From cinemas to service stations – the modernist marvels of Eritrea
Tue, 19 Nov 2019 10:37:35 +0000
From cinemas to service stations – the modernist marvels of Eritrea
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In 2017 Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site, a move that can be seen as the beginning of more hopeful times for the country. The following year Eritrea and Ethiopia, its much larger neighbour (from whom it had gained independence in 1993) signed a declaration ending a state of war that had existed since 1998; this was followed in the autumn by the opening of…
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Thu, 18 Jul 2019 10:45:53 +0000
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Kearsney Court is a late Victorian house just outside Dover in east Kent. Designed in 1899 by Worsfold and Hayward for brewer Alfred Leney, it is a perfectly respectable essay in the Arts and Crafts manner – rough-cast walls, picturesque massing, and large bay windows. Its garden, though, is something else altogether. It cascades down a steep hill in a series of highly formal set pieces:…
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View of the ornamental canal in the grounds of Kearsney Court in Kent,
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Sat, 06 Jul 2019 09:00:02 +0000
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A generation ago Lina Bo Bardi was not much known outside Brazil, and not much talked about. Today, notably in academia and architecture schools, she is arguably the most referenced and most widely influential architect of her era. Sure, Mies van der Rohe’s buildings were more minimal – but were they so cool as to be cold? And certainly Le Corbusier’s concrete constructions continue to mesmerise…
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Thu, 13 Jun 2019 10:24:31 +0000
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Mastering public transport is one of the most reassuring steps for a visitor in a major city, that familiarity that makes you feel almost at home. Naples Metro – the Metropolitana di Napoli (MDN) – has over the years absorbed older railway lines and, where the terrain is steep and difficult, has turned for help to the remarkable funiculars, serving with Swiss precision, and Swiss machinery, some…
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Sat, 08 Jun 2019 08:00:31 +0000
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There is a category of houses so famous that they can no longer be used as houses. Such buildings exist outside the practical needs they were built to address and are preserved much as works of art are. Victor Horta’s house in Brussels is one. The Maison & Atelier Horta were designed by Victor Horta in 1898 to be both a family home and an architecture studio. Today they are home to the Horta…
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Charles Eamer Kempe – the stained-glass designer who kitted out England’s churches
Charles Eamer Kempe – the stained-glass designer who kitted out England’s churches
Tue, 30 Apr 2019 09:00:13 +0000
Charles Eamer Kempe – the stained-glass designer who kitted out England’s churches
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Anyone who enjoys visiting British churches and cathedrals will soon learn to identify stained glass by Charles Eamer Kempe (1837–1907). Helpfully, he often placed a wheatsheaf in one corner of his windows, a device taken from his family’s coat of arms, but in any case his fastidiously luxurious style is unmistakable. Swathed in robes of cloth of gold and damask, figures derived from late medieval…
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Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale
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