Sunday 27 March 2011

Hendongate


Just a gate, in Hendon.

Worlds End Estate, Chelsea, London 1977. Eric Lyons & HT Cadbury Brown


There's a good BD article on the estate which you have to register to read but is free.  I agree with the AR reviewer which the article quotes, in seeing in the project a kind of medieval modernism which also puts me in mind of Kenzo Tange's Yamanashi Region Communications Centre (1967). Or Howl's Moving Castle...

Monday 21 March 2011

go compare...

image by Faasdant - Flickr site here

Just stumbled across this and several other nice images of a Miesian box on Flickr. Clearly v.similar to a building in Wandsworth I posted on a while back - although this one is geographically a great deal closer to it's source of inspiration...