Each month we highlight a building of our period, at home or abroad, that we think deserves attention.
Bradford Odeon (formerly New Victoria/Gaumont) Words and pictures by Mark Nicholson The Bradford Odeon building currently faces a very uncertain future on two counts. Disused for eight years, the submission of a planning application to demolish it co...
Words and pictures by Professor Alan Pert The Barrowlands, or The Barrowland Ballroom was originally built as a dance hall. It was designed with excellent acoustics for the unamplified orchestras which formerly graced its stage, and a sprung dance fl...
Desmond Rea O'Kelly, completed 1965 Text and photos: Paddy Cahill Dublin, the capital city of the Republic of Ireland, has fewer high-rise buildings than most of its European counterparts. Even so, plans are under way to demolish the cit...
Powell & Moya, 1949 Text and photos by Nevil Hopkins Because of Chichester’s almost overwhelmingly Georgian appearance, it seems an unlikely setting for twentieth century architecture, but there are gems to be found. The most celebrated is wit...
Text and Images by Robert Proctor Despite its sudden expansion in the 1950s with the arrival of the car industry, Leyland remains a pleasant Lancashire town of Victorian terraced cottages and suburban greenery. It would seem an unlikely setting for ...
Text and images by Barnabas Calder This is Cambridge’s most elating piece of Brutalism. No other post-war building in the city has such a Piranesian charge to it, nor such elegantly ostentatious engineering. By the mid 1960s the university had be...
Text and Images by David Walker Kensington & Chelsea Town Hall is often considered the last work of Sir Basil Spence. It was completed on 29 November 1976, ten days after the passing of its architect. But Spence had in fact been commissioned in ...
Austen T Parrott for Widnes Borough Engineers' Department Text and all photos: Eddy Rhead Even its most staunch supporter would be hard pressed to claim that the town of Widnes, on the banks of the River Mersey, is a beautiful place. It is ...
Summersgill to Ellisgill Courts off Langcliffe Drive, Local Centre and Sheltered Housing, Glowers Lane, Heelands, Milton Keynes Commenced on Site: 1976 Client: Milton Keynes Development Corporation Architect: Henning Larsen Executive UK architect: Pe...
Clifton Roman Catholic Cathedral, Bristol, by Ronald Weeks of the Percy Thomas Partnership, 1966-73 Text and images by Robert Proctor Set amongst the leafy stone terraces of Clifton, the Roman Catholic Cathedral Church of Saints Peter and Pa...
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