Showing posts with label Architecture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Architecture. Show all posts
Friday, September 09, 2016

Customising Character: Architectural Harmony

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Palma town hall is on a mission. You can't accuse the current administration of sitting on its hands. It has zeal in its hearts and anno...
Sunday, August 30, 2015

The New Grand Tour: Mallorca's culture

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Mallorca has some remarkable old buildings, some of which are barely discernible as buildings any longer. From the enormous imposition of Go...
Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Rethinking Architecture: Mallorca's resorts

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They're holding a workshop tomorrow at the headquarters of the Balearic College of Architects, the professional institute for the island...
Thursday, August 21, 2014

The Bullrings Of Mallorca

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A poster from September 1932 announces a charity event in aid of the Pollensa hospice. The event is a bullfight. It is to be staged in the...
Friday, November 09, 2012

The Jerry-Built Front Line: Can Picafort

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If you were to run a book on the flimsiest front line in Mallorca, then Can Picafort's would be among the short-odds favourites. In...
Thursday, October 27, 2011

Tourism On An Industrial Scale

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"Zone industrielle." Despite my insistence that we make a detour, we never got to see any industrial zones. This was at the end o...
Tuesday, May 03, 2011

In A Wrong Place: Architecture

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Alcúdia has some old ruins, and not just the Roman ones. The long-abandoned Es Foguero nightclub has been home to vagrants and was the last ...
Tuesday, March 01, 2011

The Wrecking Crew: Knocking GESA down

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What do you do with a rubbish building that is as unloved as it is unlovely? The obvious answer is to knock it down. But unfortunately, the ...
Thursday, September 16, 2010

The Charm Offence: Sóller and resort development

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When you're about to spend the best part of two and a half million euros on a construction project, you might hope that someone had firs...
Friday, February 26, 2010

Living In A Box (Re-mix): Architecture in Alcúdia

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The quadratic affront to the eye that is the Can Ramis building in Alcúdia old town (12 December: Toy Story - The Can Ramis Building) is an ...
Saturday, December 12, 2009

Toy Story - The Can Ramis Building

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There was I suggesting yesterday that Miquel Ferrer's period as Alcúdia mayor has been relatively successful, and forgetting of course t...
Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Am I Ever Gonna See My Wedding Day?

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BEING SPANISH - PART THREE Take a look along a street or at a row of houses or other buildings, and one - it might be hoped - would gain an ...
Saturday, September 13, 2008

Shape Of Things

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The towns of Alcúdia and Pollensa are two of Mallorca's most extraordinary bequeathals. Their histories are a conjoint immensity of pre-...
Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Yellow Is The Colour

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We build in Spain since 1958. This is still one of my favourite pieces of grammatical deconstruction. And what do we, or they, build in Spai...
Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Don’t Lead Me Halfway To Paradise

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Yesterday’s headline title - “Rip it up and start again” - could equally apply today. Yet more on the regeneration of the coastal areas of M...
Saturday, October 27, 2007

Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect

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Alcúdia is not to get a Millennium Dome. Of course it never was going to, but the architect of that unloved folly, Lord Rogers, was one of t...