Architecture news

• Alan Evans obituary

  19-02-2023 20:05
  
  Blacksmith at the forefront of a generation exploring new techniques to renew the craft as a contemporary art formIt was the curves and intersections of the stone ceiling of the crypt in St Paul’s Cathedral that provided the inspiration for the gates forged for the crypt’s Treasury by the artist blacksmith Alan Evans, who has died aged 70, of pancreatic cancer.Alan entered and won a design competition for the gates in 1980, early in his career. The outcome was a large pair of steel c
  
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• Ingenious and life-enhancing: a tale of two new London footbridges

  19-02-2023 12:00
  
  One rolling across a divide, the other narrowly avoiding rowers and rare snails, the Cody Dock Rolling Bridge and Dukes Meadows Footbridge are both old-school feats of engineeringAll the world loves a bridge that moves. Usually, the point of a bridge is that it is fixed – when so much trouble has been taken to overcome gravity and tame nature, instability is the last thing that you want – so there is surprise and delight when it confounds its own rigidity. I give you as an example To
  
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