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There’s Live… and there’s Virtually Live
On a recent trip to London, I set out to look at how live music venues had been affected by two years of intermittent shutdowns. I had expected to find changes, hardships, and closures, and indeed there had been well-known, … Continue reading
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Tagged alltogethernow, architecture, music performance, popular music, temporary stages, venues
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Soaring Inspiration
I have always been fascinated by aviation. Although architectural design has been my chosen profession, which I have found fascinating, like many others not fortunate enough to make their career as a pilot, I have spent huge chunks of my … Continue reading
Posted in all together now..., aviation, contemporary architecture
Tagged architecture, design, gliding, inspiration, literature, soaring
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A Week in the Shard
The Shard, London ©Robert Kronenburg I recently found out that I am one of six winners of an RIBA competition in which entrants were asked to reflect on the impact of the pandemic on their lives, practice and the general world … Continue reading
Thinking, Doing and Making at HELLO WOOD
This summer I spent eight hot days in rolling farmland a few hours from Lake Balaton in rural Hungary. Up a farm track, amidst a matrix of huge fields was a triangle of land which became, over just a few … Continue reading
Posted in all together now..., contemporary architecture, flexible
Tagged architecture, building, education, self-build, sustainability
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Tiny House
One cold March a few years ago I was travelling through New England on a short holiday after a week’s work in New York. I didn’t have any rooms booked or arrangements made and this had led me on a round-about … Continue reading
Political Architecture: The ‘big’ and the ‘flexible’
A few years ago I was in Bucharest helping judge a competition to design a large-scale temporary installation in one of the city’s squares. The organisers set the judging panel up in the Palace of the Parliament constructed in … Continue reading
Ephemeral Cities
In the late 1970s, when I was a student of architecture, I took part in a school trip to Paris. The staff had arranged visits to what they considered important buildings: Villa Savoye (we were impressed), the new Ricardo Bofill’s … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, cities, fairgrounds, festivals, Paris, temporary stages
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What Makes a Music City?
‘Music City’ is a term that seems to be coming more and more common. Once it might have been used to loosely describe a place that has a good vibe for popular music activity – fun venues, a lively local … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, Melbourne, music performance, popular music, temporary stages, venues
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MEA (Minimal Effort Architecture)
The phrase Renaissance woman/man is sometimes overplayed but I am fortunate to know someone who genuinely deserves that accolade. Jim is an architect, a gifted water colourist, a teacher and a superb chef. He is also by far the best … Continue reading
Shows, People and Architecture in Las Vegas
A couple of years ago when I was working on my book Live Architecture, I spent a week in Las Vegas looking at new performance buildings designed by the Canadian company Scéno Plus. Vegas (why is the ‘Las’ left off … Continue reading
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