Back to backs are they illegal? – Skyscraper City
March 28th, 2014
There’s a discussion going on and a considerable increase in hits to my blog since somebody posted the link from:-
https://www.skyscrapercity.com
and so I returned to thinking about whether they are illegal or not given that Ellesmere is about to be built, and that Goldhawk Road Mk1 was nearly built.
Where We Live Now – all five films
March 26th, 2014
City of Towers – Christopher Booker 1979 (fb Monday 19th Feb 1979) Download
Three Streets in the Country – Michael Frayn / Dennis Marks – 1979 (fb Tuesday 20th Feb 1979)
New Town Home Town – Colin Ward – 1979 (fb Wed 21st Feb 1979) via BBC
Architecture for Everyman – Patrick Nuttgens – 1979 (fb Thursday 22nd Feb 1979)
The Country and the City – Raymond Williams – 1979 (fb Friday 23rd Feb 1979)
Click film titles to watch / download.
Royal Academy Podcasts
March 22nd, 2014
The Architects Who Made London with Maxwell Hutchinson:
Click the name beneath for the podcast
Architectural audio – podcast list
March 21st, 2014
This list prompted by Tom Dyckhoff @tomdyckhoff on Twitter
1) I wish every architectural and political campaigning organisation would find £50 to buy one of these and use it.
2) Royal Academy podcasts, some but not all -> RA-Architecture
3) History Spot, these are good -> https://historyspot.org.uk/podcasts/latest
4) World Service Archive -> Housing podcast list
5) Politics of Architecture -> Jonathan Glancey
A.W. Cleeve Barr – 5/10/10 – 30/5/00
March 19th, 2014
This is not intended to be an article, just as a series of links about an interesting architect.
“The production of high-rise council flats was at its height in the 1960s when AW Cleeve Barr, who has died at the age of 89, rose to be the most powerful housing architect in British government service.
As such he fought, but failed, to control the proliferation of contractor-led housing systems, and his reputation was tarnished by public reaction after the collapse in 1968 of Ronan Point. A technocrat with an instinct for social justice and a streak of obstinacy, he had enthusiasms that belied his puritan convictions.”
London’s scissor maisonettes
March 14th, 2014
Not an article just a link to eight photocopies from the AJ 1962. Will be of interest to anybody keen to learn more about purpose built flats. Click the image.
Mount Anvil – Eagle – City Rd – £1m single aspect flats
March 5th, 2014
Still from Mind the Gap at 37:47
We can argue about whether the Eagle flats are pure single aspect flats because the windows are on a slight curve. But £1m? Shouldn’t that buy dual aspect views and a kitchen with a view? If I had £1m I would not be spending it on these. I know it’s in London but so is the Barbican and Braithwaite House (£350,000), and those are proper flats.