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The ransacking of Britain: why the people finally rose up against ‘sod you architecture’
28 Oct 2024 05:11 GMT
… no exception, although progress on Patrick Abercrombie’s 1944 plan was slow … cult among young interwar British architects. The stylistic debates between classicists … dubbed brutalist buildings “sod you architecture”. Luder’s Tricorn Centre building …
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Wembley isn't just a stadium — it was a vision abd a pioneering adventure in the history of architecture
04 Sep 2024 17:23 GMT
… collaboration and co-operation between architect and engineer, each enhancing … naked material ‘infinitely depressing’. Prof Patrick Abercrombie called it ‘frank and grim … his posthumously published book Interwar, architectural historian Gavin Stamp called it …
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UIA World Congress of Architects concludes in Copenhagen with an awards ceremony
13 Jul 2023 01:56 GMT
… UIA.
The winner of The Patrick Abercrombie Prize for Urban Planning and … category include Department of Architecture, School of Architecture, Tianjin University, Tianjin, … the award invited practicing architects and architecture academics from across the …
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Plymouth's 'hidden' sights you may not have seen before
04 Jan 2025 07:06 GMT
… shape through the visionary architect Sir Patrick Abercrombie in 1943. He … , Win Scutt, the Plymouth Architectural Trust's chair, … our invaluable twentieth-century architecture before it's … to spot the finer architectural details and artworks in …
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Reclaim Sandymount Strand for apartments, says architect
06 Aug 2019 00:59 GMT
… the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI) has said … Browne, a director of RKD Architects, said the beach and estuary … , the New Town Plan, by Patrick Abercrombie, did go ahead, such as …
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Richard J. Williams: Short Cuts
27 Nov 2024 13:44 GMT
… the city centre and its architecturally significant buildings, including the School … a novelty in the UK. Patrick Abercrombie, then Britain’s most energetic …
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'Wrecking balls swung from the ceiling, pillars were shown toppling, cornices crumbled... it was sensational': The groundbreaking museum exhibition that helped save the country house
10 Nov 2024 08:11 GMT
… podium is perpetually deserted.
Sir Patrick Abercrombie’s Greater London Plan. Credit … buildings… carbuncles, nuclear facilities’. British architects, he said, had been ‘ … more publicity than architecture had ever known. Architects furiously suggested the …
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Urban planning and the long legacy of brutalism
01 Nov 2024 18:05 GMT
… professed influences were current Swedish architecture, William Morris, and contemporary … and collaborated with the Liverpudlian architectural historian Quentin Hughes, whose guidance … 60s, and most would consider Patrick Abercrombie’s plan for Plymouth a …
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The future that never came
14 Oct 2024 00:20 GMT
… 1920s, the Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier, the prophet … city”.
The architect and town planner Sir Patrick Abercrombie’s 1944 … the suburbs but the architect Sir George Gilbert Scott, … alliance of planners, modernist architects and heritage aficionados all …
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Diary: Petroc Trelawny on Devon and Cornwall
07 Sep 2024 11:52 GMT
… the redevelopment, distinguished town planner Patrick Abercrombie and city engineer James Paton … an accomplished and sophisticated ecclesiastical architect, and he created a highly … place – its confident, elegant new architecture and its street plan inspired …