Title & Author:

Context & Catalyst / [presented by] John Lyall.

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1996.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (34 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Leeds. Aerial Photo -- Leeds. Corn Exchange. Interior -- Leeds. The Third Whitecloth Hall. Before Renovation -- Leeds. The Third Whitecloth Hall. After -- Leeds. The Third Whitecloth Hall. Interior -- Leeds The Third Whitecloth Hall. The Atrium -- Kirkgate Area. Street & Typical Alley As Found -- Kirkgate Area. Master Plan -- Kirkgate Area. Model Of New Buildings -- Kirkgate Area. Typical Infill Elevation -- Kirkgate Area. Whitecloth Hall Courtyard -- Tottenham Hale Stations. Model Of Forecourt To Stations -- Tottenham Hale Stations. British Rail Overground Station. With Alsop & Stormer -- Norwich. City Centre Plan -- Norwich. The Site To Be Developed -- Norwich. King Street -- Norwich. Land Ownership Map -- Norwich. Strategy Sketch -- Norwich. Master Plan -- Norwich. Sketch Of Proposal -- Cardiff Bay. Harry Ramsden's Fish Restaurant.

Summary:

The architect John Lyall set up his own firm in London in 1991, after working for some years with Alsop & Stormer. His practice has an international reputation for award-winning work, covering a variety of building types. He is equally at home with historic restoration and inventive modern buildings. He also lectures extensively around the world. In his talk he distinguishes between schemes which must act as a catalyst in areas bereft of existing context, and those where there is a clear urban context and which require a great deal of preparatory research. He describes his railway station designs and urban regeneration schemes in Britain. The strategy running through a lot of the renewal work is that new building should be distinguished as new, while what is old should read purely as archaeology.

Subject:

City planning Great Britain.
Urban renewal.
Urban Renewal
Rénovation urbaine.
urban renewal.
City planning.
Great Britain.

Added entries:

Lyall, John, narrator.

Context and catalyst