architect @gortscott - architecture, urbanism, history, art and C20 stuff - studied at @themsarch @cdr_studio 🏳️🌈
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the modernist x BDP present - The BDP Talk Series. 2.2
'The Case for Listing' with the Twentieth Century Society
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Roger Stevens Building, University of Leeds; designed by Chamberlin Powell and Bon, built 1970
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Photo: Simon Phipps
#brutalnorth
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A huge treasure throve of @BarbicanCentre original graphics, drawings and photos was released: artsandculture.google.com/pr…
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‘Cities are measured by what you can do in them for free’ - paraphrasing Alejandro Aravena in conversation with Sumayya Vally hosted by @AJEnglish
A rudimentary but productive metric, I think
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.@CaiusBoatClub enjoyed a highly successful return of May Bumps for the first time since 2019, with M1 retaining Head of the River, and W2 and W3 claiming blades. Congratulations to all eight crews involved in the racing!
📰: cai.cam.ac.uk/news/head-rive…
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Just published in Architectural Histories: "Experiments with Megastructures and Building Systems. University Building in the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1960s and 1970s."
By Sonja Hnilica @th_luebeck
doi.org/10.16995/ah.8309
Img: Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 1974
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This #artdeco building, formerly The Midland Bank, was designed by Edwin Lutyens in 1928. It is now home to which luxury 5* hotel?
1st image is Spring Gardens in 1930, 2nd in 1940
3rd in 1960, 4th aerial view St Andrews Hse, Midland Bank, Ship Canal Hse, King St 1965 #Manchester
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In the post-war era, Coventry was rebuilt as an optimistic, modernist city. But the selling-off of the city centre since the 1980s has made this year's City of Culture feel more like a City for Developers, writes @owenhatherley.
tribunemag.co.uk/2021/12/cov…
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Thanks to @_BenjaminCarter for his great presentation to MA A+U this afternoon dissecting the architectural and urban composition of the #UMIST campus
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.@CaiusBoatClub enjoyed tremendous success in the Eights Regatta, the competition which this week replaced May Bumps, as five crews won their divisions. Read the full report on our website 👇
📰: cai.cam.ac.uk/news/dominant-…
📷: See instagram.com/caiuscollege/ for a selection of images
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Instead of tearing down 20th century buildings we can - reuse them. In Pantin, Paris a former local government building is reworked to become a national centre for dance in France. #retrofitfirst 1970s Jacques Kalisz / 2004 Robain + Guieysse / 2016 Berger + Berger 1/2
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Couple of concrete paintings in progress on the easel today, featuring Salford and Park Hill. So cold in my studio this morning my spray paints aren’t working so progress maybe even slower than normal ! #gentrification #socialhousing #concrete #brutalism #hypothermic #grimart
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‘No true city of culture should dishonour the bold ideals of its postwar rebirth.’ Magnificent piece by @RowanMoore
amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/… #coventry #coventry2021 #postwar #architecture
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Interested in the history of @ChurchillCol? Then register for "Churchill College: Origins and Contexts" free online talk by Professor Mark Goldie, historian and long-time Fellow of Churchill, Wed 9 Dec at 4pm-5pm.
eventbrite.co.uk/e/churchill…
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Our transformation of the Grade II listed Fourways House in Manchester for @helicalplc has completed. The building has been completely overhauled to improve services, office spaces and circulation. @Savills @DP_Squared @Marketaylorltd Photography @paulkaralius
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If this Modernist Classic was not in Derby it would be cherished and refurbished, not bulldozed #savetheassemblyrooms – at Matlock, England
