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		+	* Walter Segal: self-built architect.
	* Walters Way and Segal Close.		* Walters Way and Segal Close.
	* Watts Towers.		* Watts Towers.

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	* A House for Essex.		* A House for Essex.

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	* The Mile.		* The Mile.
	* Unusual building design of the week.		* Unusual building design of the week.
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	* Walters Way and Segal Close.		* Walters Way and Segal Close.
	* Watts Towers.		* Watts Towers.

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	For more information about the Royal Academy’s exhibitions and events, see their [https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions-and-events site].		For more information about the Royal Academy’s exhibitions and events, see their [https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions-and-events site].
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−	Phin Harper, Deputy Director of The Architecture Foundation, chose to focus on Dave Daye’s house on Walter’s Way in Lewisham, based on Walter Segal’s timber construction system. He breathlessly explained that the house exemplified the “simple touches that feel natural but that in hindsight appear to be genius”. Dave Daye’s was one of 13 families who were offered the chance to build their own house, and as such remained a powerful example of “bottom-up community empowerment”, influencing and emboldening the lives of the inhabitants.	+	Phin Harper, Deputy Director of The Architecture Foundation, chose to focus on Dave Daye’s house on [[Walters_Way_and_Segal_Close\|Walter’s Way]] in Lewisham, based on Walter Segal’s timber construction system. He breathlessly explained that the house exemplified the “simple touches that feel natural but that in hindsight appear to be genius”.
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		+	Dave Daye’s was one of 13 families who were offered the chance to build their own house, and as such remained a powerful example of “bottom-up community empowerment”, influencing and emboldening the lives of the inhabitants.
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	= House in the Clouds, Thorpeness =		= House in the Clouds, Thorpeness =
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	* The Mile.		* The Mile.
	* Unusual building design of the week.		* Unusual building design of the week.
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	* Watts Towers.		* Watts Towers.

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		+	* A House for Essex.
	* Architectural styles.		* Architectural styles.
	* Dancing House, Prague.		* Dancing House, Prague.

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	* Habitat 67.		* Habitat 67.
	* Little Crooked House, Poland.		* Little Crooked House, Poland.
		+	* Mimetic architecture.
	* Nakagin Capsule Tower.		* Nakagin Capsule Tower.
	* SIS Building.		* SIS Building.

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	Chris Costelloe, Director of The Victorian Society spoke about the Army & Navy Hotel in Westminster by F.T. Pilkington. He lamented the fact that the building had been demolished in 1974, arguing that there “was nothing remotely like it in the country.” The building, he said, combined many different styles of proportion, being a playful and mischievous way to create “overwhelming massiveness”.		Chris Costelloe, Director of The Victorian Society spoke about the Army & Navy Hotel in Westminster by F.T. Pilkington. He lamented the fact that the building had been demolished in 1974, arguing that there “was nothing remotely like it in the country.” The building, he said, combined many different styles of proportion, being a playful and mischievous way to create “overwhelming massiveness”.
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	Artist and architect Adam Nathaniel Furman, presented the case for Terry Farrell’s TV-am building in Camden. Built in 1983, it was, Furman claimed, a building ‘of’ the media, ‘for’ the media and intentionally heralded the palatial cheapness and cheerful exuberance of the privatised breakfast TV of the era.		Artist and architect Adam Nathaniel Furman, presented the case for Terry Farrell’s TV-am building in Camden. Built in 1983, it was, Furman claimed, a building ‘of’ the media, ‘for’ the media and intentionally heralded the palatial cheapness and cheerful exuberance of the privatised breakfast TV of the era.
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	Emily Gee, of Historic England, argued in favour of A la Ronde, built in Exmouth in the 1790s by two spinster cousins Jane and Mary Parminter. With a design supposedly based on the Basilica of San Vitale, it consisted of 20 rooms each radiating out from a 10-metre high octagonal hallway which allowed the cousins to amble around the house following the course of the sun.		Emily Gee, of Historic England, argued in favour of A la Ronde, built in Exmouth in the 1790s by two spinster cousins Jane and Mary Parminter. With a design supposedly based on the Basilica of San Vitale, it consisted of 20 rooms each radiating out from a 10-metre high octagonal hallway which allowed the cousins to amble around the house following the course of the sun.
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	Phin Harper, Deputy Director of The Architecture Foundation, chose to focus on Dave Daye’s house on Walter’s Way in Lewisham, based on Walter Segal’s timber construction system. He breathlessly explained that the house exemplified the “simple touches that feel natural but that in hindsight appear to be genius”. Dave Daye’s was one of 13 families who were offered the chance to build their own house, and as such remained a powerful example of “bottom-up community empowerment”, influencing and emboldening the lives of the inhabitants.		Phin Harper, Deputy Director of The Architecture Foundation, chose to focus on Dave Daye’s house on Walter’s Way in Lewisham, based on Walter Segal’s timber construction system. He breathlessly explained that the house exemplified the “simple touches that feel natural but that in hindsight appear to be genius”. Dave Daye’s was one of 13 families who were offered the chance to build their own house, and as such remained a powerful example of “bottom-up community empowerment”, influencing and emboldening the lives of the inhabitants.
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	Andrea Klettner, journalist and architecture PR, made the case for the House in the Clouds in Thorpeness, Suffolk. Built in 1923 as a water tower, it was designed to disguise itself by conforming to the surrounding area’s mock-Tudor and Jacobean style. At nearly 70-feet high, the building appears “like a treehouse floating in the air”. Klettner also made the point that it was perhaps the only water tower to have been hit by RAF gunfire by mistake during the Second World War.		Andrea Klettner, journalist and architecture PR, made the case for the House in the Clouds in Thorpeness, Suffolk. Built in 1923 as a water tower, it was designed to disguise itself by conforming to the surrounding area’s mock-Tudor and Jacobean style. At nearly 70-feet high, the building appears “like a treehouse floating in the air”. Klettner also made the point that it was perhaps the only water tower to have been hit by RAF gunfire by mistake during the Second World War.
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	Hugh Pearman, editor of the RIBA Journal, spoke about the Hilda Besse building, St. Anthony’s College, Oxford, built in the late-1960s by Howell Killick Partridge & Amis. He argued that it represented the architects’ jettisoning of convention in favour of architecture that got “odder and odder without explanation”. Almost exclusively a building of precast components, with ‘erupting skin’ and diagrid dining room ceiling, he conceded that this was “not a building done with economy of means in mind”.		Hugh Pearman, editor of the RIBA Journal, spoke about the Hilda Besse building, St. Anthony’s College, Oxford, built in the late-1960s by Howell Killick Partridge & Amis. He argued that it represented the architects’ jettisoning of convention in favour of architecture that got “odder and odder without explanation”. Almost exclusively a building of precast components, with ‘erupting skin’ and diagrid dining room ceiling, he conceded that this was “not a building done with economy of means in mind”.
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	* Nakagin Capsule Tower.		* Nakagin Capsule Tower.
	* SIS Building.		* SIS Building.
−	* [[St._Basil~~'s_Cathedral~~\|St. Basil’s Cathedral, Moscow]].	+	* [[St._Basil%27s_Cathedral\|St. Basil’s Cathedral, Moscow]].
	* The Mile.		* The Mile.
	* Unusual building design of the week.		* Unusual building design of the week.