Urbanism
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Lappia Hall & Rovaniemi Library
Rovaniemi, FInland Alvar Aalto (1975) The town of Rovaniemi was destroyed during the retreat of German…
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07.05 to Katowice
A day spent in Katowice is a day well spent – particularly if you like stunning…
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Ghost Subway : a time capsule at Euston’s Lost Tunnels
You’re a ghost on the highway And I’ll love you forever Ghost Highway by Mazzy Star…
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Eternal Youth: The workers’ settlement at Aspra Spitia
Aluminium of Greece (AL) was launched in 1960 as a joint venture between the government of…
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An Ideal for Learning : the Round School at Athens
Agios Dimitrios, (often referred to with its pre-1928 name, Brahami) is one of the most densely…
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Modernist Necropolis : a Spartan cemetery
go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here, obedient to their laws, we lie Spartan…
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Second Chance Motel : rediscovering a hidden architectural gem by the motorway
“Blue hotelOn a lonely highwayBlue hotelLife don’t work out my way” Blue Hotel (1986) by Chris…
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Peiraiki-Patraiki : the chronicle of an industry’s death foretold
“So many coincidences for the untrammelled fulfilment of a death so clearly foretold.” Gabriel Garcia Marques,…
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Tubular Monuments : the strange allure of basic geometric shapes
“What the fuck are they gonna do with all these tubes? What the hell do they…
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The Pantheon of Energy : mythology and symbolism in Chernobyl
“Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.” Cormac McCarthy, The…
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3 hours in Kyiv : rushing through the Ukrainian capital’s complex architecture in wintertime
Be a Socialist Modernism, Brutalism, and World War 2 history fanboy like I am. Be in…
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Brutalist Initiation : a Resident Access experience at the Barbican Estate
Until recently, I was among those who believed they’d seen it all – and if you…
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You haven’t been to London yet
I have been asked recently to reveal my top 5 places someone should be visiting in…
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The Walking City : How Futurism and Cold War paranoia inspired London’s most visionary architects
“…emerging through a cloud of fumes, the Hayward Gallery rose up on its giant insect-like legs,…
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The Other City : a poignant and thought-provoking walk around London’s Isle of Dogs
A poignant and thought-provoking walk around London’s East End
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Le Châtelet Vanishings : Tales of darkness and mystery with a renowned vampirologist in Paris
Tales of darkness and mystery with a renowned vampirologist in Paris
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Rust and Revelry in Charleroi : Out and about a Belgian city marked with post-industrial decay
Out and about a Belgian city marked with post-industrial decay