Each month we highlight a building of our period, at home or abroad, that we think deserves attention.
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...
by Barnabas Calder All who take the celebrated ferry across the Mersey will be struck with the beauty of Liverpool from the water. The famous early twentieth-century buildings from the time of its peak prosperity as a transatlantic port are now flan...
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 ...
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