Each month we highlight a building of our period, at home or abroad, that we think deserves attention.
Thomas Charles Willis Pullinger, by Miriam McDonald The former Arrol-Johnston Car Co. Ltd factory, described as ‘the only virtually complete British example of a concrete framed, multi-storey daylight car factory, built in emulation of American p...
Jeremy and Fennela Dixon, by Otto Saumarez Smith Jeremy and Fennela Dixon’s local authority housing at St Mark’s Road (1975-79) for the London borough of Kensington is a vivid example of the disillusionment over modernist solutions that occurre...
R L Moorcroft & Richard Seifert and Partners, by Mark Crinson Which of London’s railway termini relates best to the surrounding city? At which of them can we most enjoy the passage from street to booking hall? In my view, there’s only one ...
Robert Potter, by Martin Walker The death last year of Robert Potter (of the firm Potter and Hare) at the age of 101 was a reminder of how unusual it is today, when high profile awards go in most cases to commercial and public projects, for an arch...
Keppie Henderson & Partners, by Ross Brown The Newbery Tower is rather less well-known than its southerly neighbour for the same client, Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Glasgow School of Art building. The practice which designed the Newbery Tower...
Hong Kong Housing Department architecture division (project architect, Donald P H Liao) 1965-70, by Miles Glendinning To modern architecture heritage enthusiasts in the UK, Europe or America, public housing is an aspect of the Modern Movement th...
Sergei Serafimov, Samuel Kravets & Mark Felger, by Owen Hatherley The Gosprom (Russian) or Derzhprom (Ukrainian) building in Kharkov was designed by Sergei Serafimov (1878-1939), Samuel Kravets (1891-1966) and Mark Felger (1881-1962) in 1925, ...
Builder Willie Logan, by Ruairidh Campbell Moir Stornoway, main town of the Isle of Lewis, is formed within a natural harbour, flanked by rocky headlands - the Minch channel to the mainland beyond. These headlands are witness to much colourful h...
by Roland Jeffery Bletchley Park was at the outbreak of the Second World War in rural Buckinghamshire, beside a small sleepy railway town which was to become part of Milton Keynes. The estate had been purchased by the Government Code and Cipher S...
Leonard Manasseh & Partners, 1960-5, by Timothy Brittain-Catlin Leonard Manasseh & Partners was formed early in 1950 when Leonard Manasseh won the competition for a luxury restaurant at the Festival of Britain. The restaurant was not in the...
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