All Inspirations articles – Page 5
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InspirationsPiers Gough's inspiration: The Barbican by Chamberlin, Powell & Bon
When Piers Gough came to study at the AA in the sixties, the Barbican represented the three-dimensional future of the city. Here he looks at how its baroque confidence has influenced his buildings
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InspirationsDeborah Saunt and David Hills on the Gardens of Versailles
The founders of DSDHA revisit Versailles and reveal why it’s the gardens, not the chateau, that matter
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InspirationsJames Soane’s inspiration: Liverpool Playhouse extension
The glamour and confidence of a sixties extension to a 19th century theatre had an early influence on James Soane of Project Orange
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InspirationsClare Wright looks at her changing relationship with the Glasgow School of Art building
The Wright & Wright partner explains how Mackintosh’s building has influenced her as a child, a student and an architect
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InspirationsAdam Caruso on the impact of Liverpool’s pioneering Ellis Buildings
When the Caruso St John partner first moved to England, Peter Ellis’s Oriel Chambers and 16 Cook Street offices were among the first buildings he made a visit to see
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InspirationsCharlie Sutherland finds inspiration at Fort George in the Highlands
Sutherland Hussey’s Charlie Sutherland explains how an 18th century fort built to suppress Jacobite uprisings has influenced much of his practice’s work
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InspirationsPeter Barber visits Alvaro Siza’s Faculty of Architecture in Porto
Alvaro Siza’s University of Porto buildings triggered a transformation in Peter Barber’s ideas about architecture
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InspirationsJamie Fobert visits Karl Friedrich Schinkel's Roman Baths at Potsdam, Germany
Jamie Fobert tells how he came upon Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s Roman baths almost by accident, yet the design has stayed in his head
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InspirationsTom Coward’s inspiration: tourist attraction Lucy the Elephant, Margate, NJ
In our series in which architects talk about the building that has inspired them the most, AOC’s Tom Coward explains the attraction of New Jersey resident Lucy the Elephant
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InspirationsSimon Henley’s inspiration: James Stirling’s Andrew Melville Hall
Simon Henley of Buschow Henley Architects revisits James Stirling’s Andrew Melville Hall at the University of St Andrews
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