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Penny Lewis talks to Iain Munro at the Scottish Arts Council 11 Feb 2005
Iain Munro leads the Scottish Arts Council’s capital department. Despite limited funds, he hopes to support some ambitious building projects in the next funding round.
As a boy Iain Munro planned to study music, but a childhood illness destroyed his vocal chords and...
As a boy Iain Munro planned to study music, but a childhood illness destroyed his vocal chords and...
Can Glasgow’s new “bigger and better” Riverside Museum really be built on a budget of £50million? 11 Feb 2005
It all seems so familiar – a major public building, a ‘signature’ architect chosen in ‘competition’, a design and construction period of under two years, and a budget of £50million. Plus, of course, mandatory reference to the project’s ‘Bilbao’ potential to...
The Croft House 11 Feb 2005
by Terry Levinthal
Sunday evenings are great for cheesy BBC productions, and you might recognise this little building from one of the riper ones. It was, in the first series of “Monarch of the Glen”, Katrina’s house, the home of the schoolmistress come social...
Sunday evenings are great for cheesy BBC productions, and you might recognise this little building from one of the riper ones. It was, in the first series of “Monarch of the Glen”, Katrina’s house, the home of the schoolmistress come social...
Relativity in art, space and time, as Manchester’s B of the Bang gets off the starting blocks. 11 Feb 2005
by Ian Banks
Cheshire-born artist Cornelia Parker has materialised a lot from the ether recently. She has had one of her sculptural installations shown virtually in the retrospectives of the “Still Life/Object/Real Life” suite at Tate Modern; got castaway treatment...
Cheshire-born artist Cornelia Parker has materialised a lot from the ether recently. She has had one of her sculptural installations shown virtually in the retrospectives of the “Still Life/Object/Real Life” suite at Tate Modern; got castaway treatment...
Think Global, Act Local - The Life and Legacy of Patrick Geddes, edited by Walter Stephen 11 Feb 2005
by John McKean
There are few people with the power really to make connections. And the enduring attraction of Patrick Geddes must surely be in his having this power to an almost magical degree. It\'s not just that he was ‘a polymath,’ as is always said; that\'s too...
There are few people with the power really to make connections. And the enduring attraction of Patrick Geddes must surely be in his having this power to an almost magical degree. It\'s not just that he was ‘a polymath,’ as is always said; that\'s too...
Here is a beginners guide to the new government initiative called The Northern Way. The project is less than a year old, but it is already having a major impact on the way funding and public services are being organised across the North of England. I 11 Feb 2005
by Penny Lewis
If you went to the recent Urban Summit in Manchester, you will have noticed that one of the much-talked-about initiatives in government circles is The Northern Way. To most people, The Northern Way means little at present, but if they were to speculate as...
If you went to the recent Urban Summit in Manchester, you will have noticed that one of the much-talked-about initiatives in government circles is The Northern Way. To most people, The Northern Way means little at present, but if they were to speculate as...
Foster and Partners £70 million Sage centre at Gateshead represents a major investment, but the brief appears to have been driven more by a commitment to accessibility than a love of good music. 11 Feb 2005
by Penny Lewis
The Sage Gateshead, the North East’s new £70million performing arts centre, opened just before Christmas. SAGE is the final piece in a triptych of iconic public projects clustered around the edge of the Tyne, which includes the Baltic and the Blinking...
The Sage Gateshead, the North East’s new £70million performing arts centre, opened just before Christmas. SAGE is the final piece in a triptych of iconic public projects clustered around the edge of the Tyne, which includes the Baltic and the Blinking...
With Glasgow Harbour welcoming its first residents a few weeks ago, Prospect got on site to have a first look at the new riverside walkway and some of the completed apartments, and got the chance to assess the work in progress. 11 Feb 2005
by Anna Chambers
Anyone whose daily commute involves driving along Glasgow’s Clydeside Expressway has no doubt had ample chances, while stuck in traffic, to survey the progress of the newly-emerging first phase of residential buildings at Glasgow Harbour, which are...
Anyone whose daily commute involves driving along Glasgow’s Clydeside Expressway has no doubt had ample chances, while stuck in traffic, to survey the progress of the newly-emerging first phase of residential buildings at Glasgow Harbour, which are...
Elder and Cannon have played a significant role in the development of a contemporary architectural language for city centre development. Penny Lewis talked to Dick Cannon about the last twenty five years in practice. 11 Feb 2005
by Penny Lewis
Last year Elder and Cannon’s Clavius Building, for St Aloysius in Glasgow, won the RIAS Award for Architecture. When Gordon Murray, RIAS President, handed over the prize he said the award was for both Clavius and the practice’s broader body of work....
Last year Elder and Cannon’s Clavius Building, for St Aloysius in Glasgow, won the RIAS Award for Architecture. When Gordon Murray, RIAS President, handed over the prize he said the award was for both Clavius and the practice’s broader body of work....
Miles Glendinning is about to publish a highly controversial book called The Last Icons – Architecture Beyond Modernism. Prospect has been given exclusive right to publish extracts from the book in which Glendinning explains the origins of the debate 11 Feb 2005
by Miles Glendinning
Throughout the centuries, architects have tried to build not only for the present, and for themselves, but for the community at large, and for future generations. Partly, that was a result of the sheer effort and expense needed to erect monumental,...
Throughout the centuries, architects have tried to build not only for the present, and for themselves, but for the community at large, and for future generations. Partly, that was a result of the sheer effort and expense needed to erect monumental,...
