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Chicago, archive of 20th Century excellence
September 7, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Chicago, archive of 20th Century excellence
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Chuffed to have a long article in the FT magazine’s design special today: How To Make A New Town
September 6, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Chuffed to have a long article in the FT magazine’s design special today: How To Make A New Town
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Municipal guide cover of the day (possibly an all time great!): Croydon, 1971. Countdown typeface klaxon!
September 5, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Municipal guide cover of the day (possibly an all time great!): Croydon, 1971. Countdown typeface klaxon!
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FAIRLY IMPRESSED BY THE PAVEMENT ARCHES TO THESE ART DECO FLATS THOUGH.
August 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM
FAIRLY IMPRESSED BY THE PAVEMENT ARCHES TO THESE ART DECO FLATS THOUGH.
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Coventry, 1957. I post photographs taken by me since 1954. 180 unique historic street scenes of the UK and Ireland are included in my book "Forgotten Times" to be published in September. A limited number available to pre-order from Amberley Publishing. #Coventry
August 30, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Coventry, 1957. I post photographs taken by me since 1954. 180 unique historic street scenes of the UK and Ireland are included in my book "Forgotten Times" to be published in September. A limited number available to pre-order from Amberley Publishing. #Coventry
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Newlymost arrivit! Deep joy.
August 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Newlymost arrivit! Deep joy.
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🚨 New on Substack: Balfron Tower, Poplar: imparting ‘a delicate sense of terror’
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August 7, 2025 at 7:15 AM
🚨 New on Substack: Balfron Tower, Poplar: imparting ‘a delicate sense of terror’
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municipaldreams.substack.com/p/balfron-to...
You can just smell the axonometric graph paper.
June 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
You can just smell the axonometric graph paper.
New Town-y vibes in Birkenhead.
June 20, 2025 at 8:36 AM
New Town-y vibes in Birkenhead.
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Chain Stores is here!
It's Publication Day - and my first copies arrived in the morning post! Here's a glimpse of the chapter on shoe shops.
Over the next weeks I'll post some of the material that I couldn't fit into the book, including extra pictures.
Thanks @livunipress.bsky.social.
It's Publication Day - and my first copies arrived in the morning post! Here's a glimpse of the chapter on shoe shops.
Over the next weeks I'll post some of the material that I couldn't fit into the book, including extra pictures.
Thanks @livunipress.bsky.social.
May 28, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Chain Stores is here!
It's Publication Day - and my first copies arrived in the morning post! Here's a glimpse of the chapter on shoe shops.
Over the next weeks I'll post some of the material that I couldn't fit into the book, including extra pictures.
Thanks @livunipress.bsky.social.
It's Publication Day - and my first copies arrived in the morning post! Here's a glimpse of the chapter on shoe shops.
Over the next weeks I'll post some of the material that I couldn't fit into the book, including extra pictures.
Thanks @livunipress.bsky.social.
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Only a 20 minute bus ride away 🙂
May 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Only a 20 minute bus ride away 🙂
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20% off all products in my LondonTube Patterns collection for just this weekend. Use discount code LondonPatterns at checkout architectural-icons.com/collections/...
May 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
20% off all products in my LondonTube Patterns collection for just this weekend. Use discount code LondonPatterns at checkout architectural-icons.com/collections/...
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Let’s visit the shopping centre time forgot: Glasgow’s brutalist bazaar, with the erudite and hilarious @regretteruane.bsky.social, taking in the Norma Major of crockery designs, Eternal Beau on the way open.substack.com/pub/johngrin...
Monstrosities Mon Amour: The Savoy Centre with Rose Ruane
#6. John Grindrod meets novelist Rose Ruane to explore the brutalist bazaar of Glasgow's Savoy Centre and to experience the Norma Major delights of Eternal Beau crockery
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May 3, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Let’s visit the shopping centre time forgot: Glasgow’s brutalist bazaar, with the erudite and hilarious @regretteruane.bsky.social, taking in the Norma Major of crockery designs, Eternal Beau on the way open.substack.com/pub/johngrin...
Best building in a New Town. Fight me.
April 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Best building in a New Town. Fight me.
2002, you should be ashamed of yourself for this small-windowed Tudorbethan tosh.
April 10, 2025 at 11:19 AM
2002, you should be ashamed of yourself for this small-windowed Tudorbethan tosh.
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Walking round IKEA yesterday, all of those room sets the ghosts of more optimistic times, made for the dreams of a different world
April 5, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Walking round IKEA yesterday, all of those room sets the ghosts of more optimistic times, made for the dreams of a different world
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Lovely little exhibition of architect Peter Hirst’s work for Croydon, Sutton, Berkshire and Somerset, at the urban room in the Whitgift Centre. He was there today talking about being Peter Smithson’s student at the AA
April 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Lovely little exhibition of architect Peter Hirst’s work for Croydon, Sutton, Berkshire and Somerset, at the urban room in the Whitgift Centre. He was there today talking about being Peter Smithson’s student at the AA
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A spill of light leads nowhere and everywhere. #photography
March 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
A spill of light leads nowhere and everywhere. #photography
Lots of good stuff on the Harlow Sculpture Trail (though the town centre is being dug up right now, so the central ones are entombed behind wooden covers).
March 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Lots of good stuff on the Harlow Sculpture Trail (though the town centre is being dug up right now, so the central ones are entombed behind wooden covers).
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Well this is the first time I've noticed the weirdest window in Edinburgh
March 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Well this is the first time I've noticed the weirdest window in Edinburgh
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Went on a little detour to Elm Park yesterday and found this fabulous village sign.
March 20, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Went on a little detour to Elm Park yesterday and found this fabulous village sign.
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The engineer turned architect Owen Williams, born on 20th March 1890, was one of the most prominent modernists of the interwar years, and helped create postwar Britain with his roads, bridges, offices and aircraft hangers. Read more about The Concrete King here
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March 20, 2025 at 11:20 AM
The engineer turned architect Owen Williams, born on 20th March 1890, was one of the most prominent modernists of the interwar years, and helped create postwar Britain with his roads, bridges, offices and aircraft hangers. Read more about The Concrete King here
buff.ly/UDdSOsN
buff.ly/UDdSOsN
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BRUTAL Bristol II is in and ready to order!
A little hint of what @raynewman.bsky.social prepared for the zine.
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A little hint of what @raynewman.bsky.social prepared for the zine.
ourshadowswillremain.bigcartel.com
March 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
BRUTAL Bristol II is in and ready to order!
A little hint of what @raynewman.bsky.social prepared for the zine.
ourshadowswillremain.bigcartel.com
A little hint of what @raynewman.bsky.social prepared for the zine.
ourshadowswillremain.bigcartel.com
This is a banger. And weirdly has Bedford train station on the cover.
March 18, 2025 at 8:06 PM
This is a banger. And weirdly has Bedford train station on the cover.
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Welbeck St before and after. This zine explores the car park as it awaits demolition. Also includes a great poem by Owen Collins.
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March 16, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Welbeck St before and after. This zine explores the car park as it awaits demolition. Also includes a great poem by Owen Collins.
ourshadowswillremain.bigcartel.com/product/brutal-iv-welbeck
ourshadowswillremain.bigcartel.com/product/brutal-iv-welbeck