Each month we highlight a building of our period, at home or abroad, that we think deserves attention.
Frank Fielden and Associates with J.C. Cunningham by Ruairidh Campbell Moir The ‘Fun Palace’ idea by Cedric Price was a method of attacking the established order of institutions becoming defined by their architecture. He proposed a fl...
Philip Russell Diplock & Associates, 1961 by Bruce Peter Britain’s first significant airport hotel ‘happened’ almost by accident, through a change of heart on the part of the operator, J. Lyons & Co. Founded in 1887 as a subs...
Patrick McSweeney (1962-74), by Richard Butler Set amidst the small market town of Bantry, near the site of a former mill and surrounded by one of the spate rivers which drain from the Knocknaveagh range to the south, is one of Ireland’s most un...
Frederick Gibberd and Partners, by Christine Hui Lan Manley The 1946 New Towns Act in Britain gave modern architects a chance to attempt to design a town. A planned town of a compact nature, with variety, carefully considered spaces, and a socially...
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...
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