Each month we highlight a building of our period, at home or abroad, that we think deserves attention.
by Christine Hui Lan Manley The Churchill Gardens housing scheme by Powell and Moya in Pimlico was built as a result of a prestigious international architectural competition launched following the end of the Second World War. The competition attrac...
by Susannah Charlton, photographs Laurence Mackman Holborn Library is a milestone in the history of the modern public library, both as the first large, multi-functional, post-war library in London and for its pioneering architecture, with an elegant...
by John Graham In 1956 Frederick Gibberd established a branch of his private practice in Harlow in order to design key buildings in the new town but also to undertake work in other parts of the country. Bath Technical College was designed in this of...
Ola Wedebrunn Trondheim is a city at the mouth of the Nidelva, a river on the west coast of central Norway. Its location has many favorable resources and constructions of material character, wood, stone and modern technology, mythology, history; an ...
Rob Whitlock In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War one of Britain’s primary concerns was dealing with an acute housing shortage. The scale of the problem saw the widespread adoption of modernist solutions for high-rise living, often d...
Stuart McKenzie At the start of Ayn Rand’s novel ‘The Fountainhead’, the reader is introduced to the protagonist Howard Roark just as he is being ejected from architecture school. Very quickly the reason becomes clear: Roark is completely unwi...
John Kennedy Located in Greenock, a large post-industrial town situated near Glasgow on the south bank of the River Clyde, Greenock Central Library was built in 1970. Positioned within a complex urban setting, the Central Library sits on the edge of...
James Benedict Brown The threat of demolition has hung over our Building of the Month for several years. Like many provincial explorations in Brutalism, Sovereign House in Norwich (Alan Cooke Associates, 1966-68) is both maligned and fondly regarded...
Laura Chan The tabula rasa caused by the Blitz allowed the London County Council (and later the Greater London Council) to embrace the ideal of concentrated living, an anti-utopian model. Over the course of the 1950s to the 1970s, modern architectur...
Dr Matthew Whitfield Building on the success of Allan Brodie and Gary Winter's 2007 book, England's Seaside Resorts, English Heritage is continuing its exploration of the significance of seaside towns with a series of shorter projects that focus mor...
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