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Spooky - I was just in the middle of gathering together a post on Architecture Week 2005, which begins this Friday, when I noticed that Rob has already done a Brum round-up, and Dan Hill has picked his highlights in Manchester and London.
Anyway, here’s the good stuff in Glasgow, in no particular order:
- Cinema City: During Hollywood’s golden era , Glasgow was home to over 130 cinemas- more than any other city outside America. This exhibition celebrates Glasgow’s historic reputation as Cinema City and explores the internal and external architecture of its city centre ‘Picture Palaces’ from yesteryear and today.
- Strathbungo Architectural Walk: An architectural walk around the Strathbungo conservation area, former home of Alexander Greek Thomson and Charles Rennie Mackintosh, as part of the Strathbungo Society’s annual Bungo In The Back Lanes midsummer event. The walk looks at the origins, growth and architectural features of Strathbungo.
- Tales Between Two Cities - A Cummuting Exhibition: Tales between two Cities draws attention to the built environment of the “in between” of Scotland’s two major cities and will provide information on origins or purposes of buildings and artefacts, their architectural or engineering merits, their socio-economic histories or environmental impacts. The exhibition takes place in the Glasgow-Edinburgh commuter train.
- Performance and the built environment: Minty Donald works site - specifically, using projected imagery and sound to explore our relationships with the built environment. She will be discussing the work she made during her Creative Lab residency at CCA, and her plans for its development in a three year research programme.
I was hoping there’d be a talk on or guided walk around St. Peter’s Seminary at Cardross, but no such luck. (There are, however, tours of both the CCA and the Lighthouse, the two most profoundly depressing buildings/conversions in Glasgow’s recent history.)
Finally, since it sounds like one of the best Architecture Week events in Scotland, here’s one for the Dundonians:
- The Public Realm Of The Senses: A series of talks initiated by artist Apolonija Sustersic that looks at the various factors shaping Our Surroundings. With the aim of looking across the disciplines of art/architecture/planning/landscape and the use of the public realm in the context of current developments in Dundee.
I went along to the Cinema City exhibition on Monday with my dad (him being keen on reliving his youthful trips to the pictures in Glasgow) and it was awful. One room, a looped compilation of newsreel footage â much of which was little more than trams choogling down Sauciehall St â a few old photographs, a (very) brief history of 20-odd city centre cinemas (nothing about the other 110 that were open during that “golden era”) which was riddled with basic factual errors, and an old documentary about attempts to restore the Panopticon on the Trongate. I know that, being the Lighthouse, it’s to be expected; but it’s just so depressing to have your cynicism confirmed time and again.
Posted by Leon at 7pm on 15.06.05
Nice. I linked you up as an addition to my entry.
Cummuting? Sounds pretty orgasmic.
Posted by Rob at 10pm on 15.06.05
Cummuting? Sounds pretty orgasmic.
Hee - the Architecture Week site is a shocker when it comes to spelling errors, random capitalisation, etc.
Unless it’s being on the last train back to Glasgow on a Saturday, in which case it might just be a reference to the fact that the loos are always occupied with people joining the foot high club.
Posted by Jack Mottram at 12pm on 16.06.05
makes mental note to get timetable of last train back to Glasgow on a Saturday
Posted by Rob at 3pm on 17.06.05