formerly Mad Cornish Projectionist.
Eyesores and scandalously unsafe? Or utopian housing for the working classes? Here are the stories and scandals behind some of the UK’s most revolutionary homes. Source: Thumping ambition – and demolition: 10 high-rises that changed modern Britain | Architecture | … Continued
In the city of Tarim, colourful mansions built by the city’s merchants are being knocked down as the war-torn nation cannot afford to maintain them. Source: ‘Other countries would have preserved it’: Yemenis mourn the demolition of historic mud-brick palaces … Continued
Whitwam AVI has designed and installed future-proof AV, broadcast and CCTV systems at Saint Michael’s Abbey, a historic Benedictine monastery in the UK. Living a traditional life of prayer, work and study, the community of monks at Saint Michael’s welcomed … Continued
A century ago the wrecking ball demolished the halls, courtyards, arches and domes of one of London’s best-loved buildings in what the architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner would decry as “the greatest architectural crime” to befall the capital in the 20th … Continued
People jokingly asked “What’s the point?” and for some, the UK’s first multiplex cinema served simply as a landmark to light up the sky as they drove home at night. Now, local cinema-goers have been remembering it affectionately, after news … Continued
From its cavernous domed bazaar to its ravishingly muscular museum, the Uzbek capital has one of the world’s wildest collections of modernist gems. Will its bid for world heritage status succeed? Source: Cosmic metros, UFO circus tops and a 3,000C … Continued