Architecture

Slobodište Memorial Park : a walk through Bogdan Bogdanović’s heavenly war memorial

The realm of Bogdan Bogdanović’s thought-provoking spaces in former Yugoslavia is a feast for the senses,…
Grand Tour Le Corbusier

A 9 day pilgrimage to the most iconic works of pioneering Modernist architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret in…
Lappia Hall & Rovaniemi Library

Rovaniemi, FInland Alvar Aalto (1975) The town of Rovaniemi was destroyed during the retreat of German…
Fire, Water, Modernism

Fire, Water, Modernism is an immersive journey through the majestic post-war architecture of the City of…
Madonna, Mother and Whore : notes on vandalism at Bulgaria’s most photographed monument

Decades of appalling vandalism nearly destroyed one of the world’s most endangered monuments in Buzludzha, Bulgaria.…
Climbing up the slide : the annoying slang of architecture

Morphologies, programmatic adjacencies, and spatial compositions : it’s all Greek to me, as I take a…
Poland Is Not Yet Lost

Next Departures : Upon Request Poland is one of the largest countries in Europe, steeped in…
07.05 to Katowice

A day spent in Katowice is a day well spent – particularly if you like stunning…
The Penguin Pool, London Zoo

London, UK Berthold Lubetkin with Ove Arup (1934) Berthold Lubetkin’s seminal Penguin Pool at the London…
Finsbury Health Centre

Finsbury, London, UK Berthold Lubetkin (1938) In the 1930s the Borough of Finsbury commissioned Berthold Lubetkin’s…
Hille House

Watford, UK Erno Goldfinger (1961) Hungarian-born Erno Goldfinger first deployed his tell-tale coloured glass slits at…
Colechurch House

London, UK E.G. Chandler for the City of London (1973) Colechurch House is a Brutalist office…
Lecture Theatre Block, Brunel University

Uxbridge, UK John Heywood for Sheppard, Robson and Partners (1966) The Grade II listed Lecture Theatre…
The Elephant & Rhinoceros Pavilion, London Zoo

London, UK Sir Hugh Casson (1965) A series of circular brick pens arranged around a central…
Eternal Youth: The workers’ settlement at Aspra Spitia

Aluminium of Greece (AL) was launched in 1960 as a joint venture between the government of…
Sacred Inspiration : the Church of Agia Foteini Mantineias

In the sunlit Arcadian plain close to the ancient city of Mantineia in Greece, there’s a…
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…
Forgotten Greece

Raw, atypical, and brutally honest – as never experienced before. Are you ready to see Greece…
Brutalism For Beginners

We will walk around London, visit a great number of sites, learn a bit about concrete…
Brutalism for Beginners

Experience London’s brutalist architecture and social history
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,…
Holding the fort : A peek inside a British GHQ Line pillbox in Somerset

A peek inside a British GHQ Line pillbox in Somerset