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This work began life as a road trip. Artist Dan Dubowitz and architect Patrick Duerden set out to find the ‘colonie’, the modernist camps built by the fascists in Italy in the 1920s and 30s to cultivate discipline and loyalty among the children of the urban poor. Many of these colonie, some of Europe’s best [...]
In July 2008 Andrew PK Wright published The North Highland Initiative’s Caithness Redundant Buildings Inventory. The report provides a record of buildings of importance that are at-risk and an analysis of the distinctive character of buildings in the region. He also argues that we need to revise the way that we approach the process of [...]
Gokay Deveci has recently completed a studio for Lotte Glob, the ceramic artist. Deveci designed a house on the remote site in Durness which was completed in 2006. While the house was built in timber the studio has been built from stone taken from the site.
The architect and client chose materials that would weather in [...]
Following a fire in 1946 at St Peter's Seminary in the Glasgow suburb of Bearsden, a new home was needed for the seminary.
The best time for drawing is early morning weekends in summer. The light is excellent and I stick down the negative paper, set up my T square, switch on the ipod and draw.
Basel is a fantastically vibrant city, everywhere you look there is good (or at least ambitious) contemporary architecture. Diener and Diener appear to have made the most consistent impact on the city, but Herzog and de Meuron’s Signal box, which has become iconic in the canon of box/ form-making architecture, really deserves its super-star status. [...]
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