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A few years after helping to design Britain’s greatest post-war building – for Leicester University’s engineering department – James Gowan moved to a stuccoed early-Victorian house in Notting Hill. It was a narrow end-of-terrace house built a...
On Friday 23 January British artist Esther Johnson will be introducing showings of two of her films at the University of Central Lancaster in Preston. 'The View from my Window tells me I'm Home' (2012, 45') is an observation, investigation and socia...
by Alexandra Bullen Nearing Westbourne Park station, travelling west out of central London, the slender eastern profile of Trellick Tower incites little notice among the handful of housing blocks peppering the area. However, as the building looms la...
The recent debate about the future of No. 23 Savile Row – old Fortress House, the home of English Heritage until April 2006 – has thrown into sharp relief the steady loss of post-war commercial architecture from the capital. In the City, which wa...
A war is being waged upon a significant part of Britain’s architectural heritage. It is a stealthy war, fought behind the concealment of hoardings and swathes of green mesh and prosecuted by planners and developers. Its victims are the first buildi...
What do a waste incinerator, a lift testing tower and a multi-storey car park have in common? The new website of the Twentieth Century Society, www.riskybuildings.org.uk, shows some of the uncelebrated and forgotten examples of twentieth century arch...
Words by Aidan Turner-Bishop. Pictures courtesy of Liverpool Anglican Cathedral. High on St. James’s Mount, the great Cathedral of Christ in Liverpool dominates the city centre and the Mersey estuary marking ’ (Sharples) A hundred years ago this ...
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