St. Cross
On the way down to Dorset, we stopped off at St. Cross, the wonderful, stately, beautifully preserved, pure Norman church just outside Winchester. Founded by Henry of Blois in 1136, and part of the Hospital of St. Cross, a set of medieval almshouses, it has been preserved in a way which is unusual in England…
Vanbrugh300 (11)
I love the podcast as attached in which Matthew Lloyd Roberts talks to Piers Gough about the character of Vanbrugh’s architecture, beginning with Vanbrugh Castle, talking in Woolwich which I did not include in my book and describing very eloquently so many aspects of Vanbrugh’s work: the way the ground plan at Castle Hiward is…
The Aalto Siilo
The Aalto Siilo and a Provenance Projected seminar was the reason for coming to Oulu. The Siilo is smaller than expected, although not without monumentality. Still in its raw postindustrial state. It was completed in 1931, so is a very early work by Alvar Aalto, but hard to square with the other works at this…
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