Three Modernist buildings listed on Welsh university campus
A trio of Dale Owen buildings constructed in West Wales in the 1960s and ’70s has been granted listed status following a long drive by heritage campaigners
By Greg Pitcher 5 September 2024 2,334 Views
A trio of Dale Owen buildings constructed in West Wales in the 1960s and ’70s has been granted listed status following a long drive by heritage campaigners
By David Brady 27 March 2024 4,304 Views
Having worked with Le Corbusier, Swiss architect Albert Frey moved to the US at a time when it was lacking in Modernist architecture and went on to design much of the desert city of Palm Springs, where a new exhibition celebrates his work, writes David Brady
By Catherine Slessor 20 November 2023 7,445 Views
This shouty book’s arguments against ‘boring’ buildings are too wafer-thin to obscure its true aim of self-promotion, argues Catherine Slessor. Photomontages by Maria Rodriguez
By Fran Williams. Photography by Scapolan Burney Architects 6 November 2023 3,017 Views
A 1980s city-centre Modernist building has been stripped back with the upper floors, previously offices, transformed into 200 flats
By Gino Spocchia 11 September 2023 4,603 Views
Architects have dismissed claims by Nicholas Boys Smith that the crisis over unsafe concrete buildings could partly be blamed on post-war architecture
By Anna Highfield 9 May 2023 3,749 Views
Norman Foster has said he would ‘love the opportunity’ to talk to King Charles about architecture following the coronation on Saturday (May 6)
By Richard Waite 21 April 2023 5,594 Views
The profession has paid tribute to author, historian and leading authority on post-war English architecture Elain Harwood, who has died aged 64
By Richard Waite 18 November 2022 3,479 Views
Gillespie, Kidd & Coia’s 1980 Robinson College in Cambridge, described by The Twentieth Century Society as a ‘radically modern’ megastructure, has been given a Grade II* listing
By Will Ing 14 June 2022 7,251 Views
A south London house been listed at Grade II after Historic England said its ‘remarkable survival' showcased 'the architectural ideals of the 1930s’
By Harriet Jennings 31 August 2021 125 Views
Harriet Jennings appraises the first UK retrospective of the work of prolific transdisciplinary Swiss artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp