Each month we highlight a building of our period, at home or abroad, that we think deserves attention.
Hurd Rolland Partnership, 1993 The Aviva building is striking in silhouette, with a diverse roofline and façade giving the impression of this being several buildings combined into one. Yet the entire site is connected by its uniformity of materia...
Herbert J. Rowse, 1925-34 Ranking as one of the great municipal achievements of the inter-war years, the Mersey road tunnel was celebrated with pride by both Liverpool and Birkenhead when it was opened by the King George V in 1934. Architect Herbe...
F X Velarde (1955-59) The work of Francis Xavier Velarde (1897-1960) has appeared in the Building of the Month slot before, his Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in Blackpool being featured in October 2003. Here the slightly later RC church of Holy Cr...
Ted Cullinan, 1992 Ted Cullinan first visited the great Georgian landscape park of Studley Royal in Yorkshire as a schoolboy. Evacuated to Canada with his mother and siblings at the age of eight, on the outbreak of the Second World War, he returne...
Irvine Development Corporation (1973-75) At 1.5km long the Irvine Centre, when completed, would have been visible from orbit. Conceived as the megastructural centrepiece to Scotland’s fifth post-war New Town, the vital statistics for this enormous...
Peter Moro & Partners, 1969 The University of Hull’s Gulbenkian Centre opened in 1969. It was the first completely new building for the teaching of drama at a British university, reflecting not only the growth of this subject within post-war...
Milton Keynes Development Corporation, 1975-9 On 25 September 1979, the recently elected prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, declared the Shopping Building in Milton Keynes open for business. The largest indoor shopping centre in the UK represented...
Rodney Gordon for Batir International Architects (1979-82) On one of the most exclusive London thoroughfares, a building by an architect more often associated with the crafting of mid-century concrete megastructures, blends glossy swagger with eng...
Nikola Dobrović, 1936 Lopud is the middle island in the Elaphitic archipelago, distanced a single nautical mile from the mainland and only seven miles from Dubrovnik’s northern harbour. The small town of the same name, stretched along a sandy b...
Sigurd Lewerentz c. 1958-1963 To the south-east of Stockholm city centre lies the first stage of the Sörmlandsleden hiking trail. A 1000km recreational route first established in the 1960s, the trail winds its way through the spectacular lowlands...
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