Forgive this swift post on a hot, rainy, busy day, but something just caught my eye. The excellent blog on postwar British buildings, DirtyModernScoundrel, has a quick piece speculating on Cliff Richard’s love of Brutalist architecture, especially that of the Midlands (well, he would have a lot to choose from). If you have five seconds […]
Been down the Job Centre lately? I have and it was lovely – you can can a smoke out the back and they serve Campari. It was so nice I went twice in one week. The Job Centre I’m talking about is a new bar in Deptford, situated on the site of the old, real […]
I watched a sweet half-hour show last week called The People’s Painting: A mural for Glasgow. It followed artists Louise Chappell and Becky Bolton – AKA Good Wives and Warriors – on their quest to create a mural in Parkhead in the East end, to celebrate the Commonwealth games. The city has a long tradition of murals, […]
“Dear god, we pray not that wrecks should happen, but if it be Thy will that they do, we pray Thee let them be to the benefit of Thy poor people of Scilly.” So, supposedly, said the Reverend Troutbeck of The Isles of Scilly, just off the far tip of Cornwall. Wrecking – using lights […]
This post was first published in November 2013. Today Wilkinson Eyre architects unveil their latest interiors for the apartments. Here is what used to be inside… Battersea Power Station needs no introduction from me… the empty building is a London landmark, icon and place of fascination. It’s been sold (again) but this time it seems […]