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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...
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...
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 ...
High on St James’s Mount, Scott’s Gothic, sandstone Cathedral dominates Liverpool. The 331-feet tower impresses with its height and bulk. The lower part is square, punctuated by the Rankin Porch. The eight-sided upper stage is topped with...
Ian and May Anderton, family friends of Peter Aldington from Preston, commissioned a retirement home in 1969. Aldington had developed a practice in Buckinghamshire, including a house for himself, that combines concrete block and tiles with old walls...
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