The York Minster Centre of Excellence for Heritage Craft Skills
I visited York to see its new Centre of Excellence which consists of two new buildings, both designed by Tonkin Liu. The first – the Technology Hub – is an adaptation of an existing yard close to the East End of the Cathedral. More ambitious is the Heritage Quad, tucked into space in what was…
York Minster
For some, probably childish, reason, I wanted to walk the York city walls to get a feel for the extent of the medieval city, presided over by the Minster:- Inside the Minster:- I looked mainly at the tombs. Archbishop Sharp, died 1714, tomb by Francis Bird:- William Wentworth, Earl of Strafford. Tomb by Jan Van…
Architecture, Criticism and History (1)
Back in January, I was browsing in the Triangle Bookshop at the Architectural Association when I spotted a volume of essays by Irénée Scalbert, A Real Living Contact with the Things Themselves, published by Park Books in Zurich. I had been thinking that, having writing a monthly column for The Critic for five years, it…
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