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Time check in the Hall of Hours
ENTER Robert Powell's Hall of Hours at Edinburgh Printmakers and you'll find yourself in a fascinating TARDIS (Time And Distance Relative to Space) that challenges and illuminates intellect and imagination…
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Editorial Comment
ON IONA, in Glasgow and indeed across Scotland the complaint is the same – end the highly damaging twenty per cent VAT surcharge placed on restoration work on old buildings…
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A Smart Search Box can produce better sales results at minimal cost!
THE IMPORTANCE of accurately searching online content of an organisation's website could not be overemphasised as it could help enhance further interests in the business and eventually increase the overall revenue…
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A Serious look at architecture
TO CELEBRATE their first ten years, Stallan-Brand, the renowned international architecture practice based in Glasgow have published a magnificent book. It's a serious book, hence its title, SERIOUS…
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Lost in the woods – a truly iconic building worth saving
WHAT was all the fuss about? Bit of an ill-informed thought I held when leaving the office of Hugh Martin & Partners, Architects clutching a copy of Peter Willis's New Architecture In Scotland, which was published in 1977…
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Stranraer: Hub of Creativity
IT'S OFFICIAL! Once a thriving port for the ro-ro ferry to and from Ulster, Stranraer's now a backwater and, for many, a dive with a few café s and hotels, the usual cathedrals to consumption, aka supermarkets, and a railway station that looks like a salvage yard…
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Not for sale: National treasure – or National Gallery!
NORTHUMBERLAND, Bamburgh's Croquet Lawn, below the Castle, last year. An oriental gentleman stops me. Do I think he could buy the castle? I express doubt. Pity, he says, it's just what he's looking for. Really, he'd like to rebuild it back home…
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Letter from – and about – Iona
AS A PAPER concerned with the state of the arts and crafts, ArtWork seems to me the perfect forum to air my concerns about the current crisis involving the maintenance of historically important buildings…
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A festival with a difference
THIS YEAR the Abbeyhill Colony of Artists (COA) arts and community festival celebrates its 20th anniversary. One of the oldest parts of Edinburgh, the historic colonies were built in 1867 as model dwellings to offer improved and affordable living conditions for the working class and artisans…
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ArtWork Special
IN THAT CLASSIC Jonesy's Glovebox Touring Guide to Scotland, the categories are: 1: Avoid. 2: Ignore. 3: Worth a detour if passing. 4: Make a special trip. Kelso Pottery rates a 4**. 4, because it's unique. ** because the two stars who established it, Ian and Elizabeth Hird, are celebrating sixty years of ceramics with a retrospective exhibition from October 18 to November 1…
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