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Dreaming towers: George Oatley's monumental wills tower for Bristol University was the final flowering of secular gothic in England—a tradition that lasted longer in the USA

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Bristol's principal landmark is the colossal gothic tower at the top of Park Street, which climbs...
Apollo, 11/01/09 by Gavin Stamp · More from publication
Strawberry gothic: strawberry hill, Horace Walpole's gothic villa beside the Thames, is being celebrated in an exhibition that opens at the Yale center for British art this month

[FIGURE 1 OMITTED] The survival today of Strawberry Hill, the gothic villa built by the aesthete, antiquary, collector and novelist Horace...
Apollo, 10/01/09 by Gavin Stamp · More from publication
Knight's tale: the recent discovery of J.H. Nixon's watercolours of the Eglinton tournament underscores the importance of medievalism in British life

[FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Nostalgia and progress are not necessarily contradictory. The year 1838 saw the opening throughout of that modern, wonder,...
Apollo, 09/01/09 by Gavin Stamp · More from publication
Museum piece: a new book on Sir John Soane's museum highlights the changes that have been made to this strange shrine to an extraordinary architect

[FIGURE 1 OMITTED] [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] The continuing existence of Sir John Soane's Museum in London seems almost miraculous. It may have been...
Apollo, 07/01/09 by Gavin Stamp · More from publication
Forgotten prophet: the acclaim given to the remodelled whitechapel gallery has neglected its remarkable architect

[FIGURE 1 OMITTED] [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] [FIGURE 2 OMITTED] The reopening of the expanded Whitechapel Gallery has rightly attracted much...
Apollo, 06/01/09 by Gavin Stamp · More from publication
Tent for a prince: 18th-century and regency buildings inspired by Turkish military tents were mostly temporary. Amazingly, one survives in south London, but its future is uncertain

[FIGURE 1 OMITTED] [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Placed over the balconies that flank the high altar in the Peterskirche in Vienna, that masterpiece by...
Apollo, 05/01/09 by Gavin Stamp · More from publication

Why size is not enough: Mark Wallinger's success in the competition to design the Ebbsfleet landmark stands in a long tradition of giant public monuments

[FIGURE 1 OMITTED] [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Coney Island, the seaside resort near New York City, once boasted a giant elephant made of timber and...
Apollo, 04/01/09 by Gavin Stamp · More from publication
Embassy or fortress? New concerns about security are bad news for the future of some distinguished embassy buildings

[FIGURE 1 OMITTED] [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] In 1814, having been instrumental in seeing off Napoleon, the new British Ambassador to the Court of the...
Apollo, 03/01/09 by Gavin Stamp · More from publication
Vanbrugh's Indian villa: how did a country house by Vanbrugh become the prototype for a nawab's hunting lodge in Lucknow?

[FIGURE 1 OMITTED] [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] In the last issue of APOLLO, I discussed Seaton Delaval, that strange and romantic pile by Sir John...
Apollo, 02/01/09 by Gavin Stamp · More from publication
Shakespeare in stone: the national trust's plans to acquire Seaton Delaval Hall are a tribute to a genius who has inspired writers and artists for centuries

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 'Sir John Vanbrugh', wrote the historians Avray Tipping and Christopher Hussey in 1928, 'provides...
Apollo, 01/01/09 by Gavin Stamp · More from publication

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Dreaming towers: George Oatley's monumental wills tower for Bristol University was the final flowering of secular gothic in England—a tradition that lasted longer in the USA

Strawberry gothic: strawberry hill, Horace Walpole's gothic villa beside the Thames, is being celebrated in an exhibition that opens at the Yale center for British art this month

Knight's tale: the recent discovery of J.H. Nixon's watercolours of the Eglinton tournament underscores the importance of medievalism in British life

Museum piece: a new book on Sir John Soane's museum highlights the changes that have been made to this strange shrine to an extraordinary architect

Forgotten prophet: the acclaim given to the remodelled whitechapel gallery has neglected its remarkable architect

Tent for a prince: 18th-century and regency buildings inspired by Turkish military tents were mostly temporary. Amazingly, one survives in south London, but its future is uncertain

Why size is not enough: Mark Wallinger's success in the competition to design the Ebbsfleet landmark stands in a long tradition of giant public monuments

Embassy or fortress? New concerns about security are bad news for the future of some distinguished embassy buildings

Vanbrugh's Indian villa: how did a country house by Vanbrugh become the prototype for a nawab's hunting lodge in Lucknow?

Shakespeare in stone: the national trust's plans to acquire Seaton Delaval Hall are a tribute to a genius who has inspired writers and artists for centuries

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