Author Event: Station by Christopher Beanland

Last night we hosted an event with renowned travel and architecture writer Christopher Beanland as he spoke about his new book Station: A Journey Through 20th And 21st Century Railway Architecture And Design published by Batsford.

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5 Modernist Buildings Near Stanfords

-by Owen Hatherley

One of the things you learn compiling a guide to the best modern buildings in the country is that there are surprisingly few in Central London. This is ironic, because the capital dominates modern architecture in the UK, much more than it ought to – but planning regulations and widespread conservation have kept much of it outside of Westminster, and the area around it, in particular. But there are five buildings in a very short walking distance from Stanford’s where you can get some sense of what modernism in Britain is all about – its stylistic diversity, its long history, and the different ways it has adapted – or hasn’t – to historic context.

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Mappy Monday- Art Deco London Map

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Art Deco London Map £8.00


This new map from Blue Crow Media features London’s finest Art Deco buildings including lots of Piccadilly line tube stations, Battersea Power Station, Arsenal Stadium, Brockwell Lido, Hoover Building, The Savoy and The Grampians. Continue reading Mappy Monday- Art Deco London Map

James Crawford with John McCarthy

Buildings reflect the world around them and the people who build them – their values and aspirations. Like people, sooner or later, they die. As historical structures face destruction by both seemingly benevolent and deliberately malevolent forces, James Crawford shares with John McCarthy the biographies of some of the world’s most important buildings we’ve lost along the way. Continue reading James Crawford with John McCarthy