Each month we highlight a building of our period, at home or abroad, that we think deserves attention.
Text by Michael MacAmhalai Transport House is the Belfast headquarters of the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers’ Union. Built in 1959, in the International Style, it has become the focal hub of the Province’s trade union movement, and on...
by Frederick Gibberd, 1936 Text by Eva Tyler and pictures by Jaime Gili Pullman Court is the first major work of the architect Frederick Gibberd and one of the first developments built in the International Modern style in Britain. The building can...
Text by Paul Zara, Conran & Partners Architects Pictures by Paul Zara and Matthew Worland Wells Coates’ Embassy Court, 1935, stands just on the Brighton side of the old border with Hove. The flats were designed to be rented by the wealthy and...
Words and pictures by Eddy Rhead Since the merger of the two television companies Carlton and Granada, rumour has been rife in Manchester as to whether or not Granada will move operations to London. If Granada, for whatever reason, does leave its ho...
Text by Hannah Shaw Images taken from the Alexander Buchanan Campbell Collection, courtesy of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) Alexander Buchanan Campbell (b. 1914)’s most significant project is t...
Formerly known as the Commercial Union Tower Text by Ian McInnes Pictures by M.J. Worland Early in 1961 the Commercial Union Assurance Company acquired the former Shell headquarters building in Great St Helens intending to refurbish it and build an e...
Text by Kenneth Powell Photographs by Guyan/Worland ©2004 Ian Nairn, the most perceptive post-war British critic of architecture writing for a broad audience, described the architect Raymond Erith (1904-1973) as "a Georgian designer - genuinely Geor...
Text and pictures by Hawksmoor Hughes Those taking a walk past no. 7 Walter’s Way in Lewisham, South-East London may well be puzzled as to the origin and style of this small three-bedroomed detached house set in a leafy suburban cul-de-sac. The arc...
Text by Alan Powers Pictures by Harriet Atkinson The reopening of the Thomas Coram Foundation earlier this year drew attention to the important civic and artistic history of the Foundling Hospital. Sadly, the original building of 1742 by Theodore Jac...
Upper Lawn Pavilion, Fonthill Estate, Tisbury, Wiltshire (1959-62) Text by Dirk van den Heuvel and Max Risselada, Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology Images courtesy of the Smithson Family Archive, featured in edited by Dirk van d...
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