Feasible? Urgent removal of panel-less Patera prototype from Royal Docks ahead of the wrecking ball.
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Left, Patera Building prototype manufactured and built in Stoke-on-Trent in 1982, right, entry from architects' website indicating incorrectly that it was built in London in 1982.

Once shipping containers have been adapted, there can be little cost benefit over developing a factory-produced small span component-based building in the style of Hopkins' SSSALU or Gullichsen & Pallasmaa Moduli 225. Containers have limitations and are architecturally uninspiring.

Liverpool - Hotel to be built out of shipping containers - BBC News.

About a century apart, take your pick: Will it be the AI generated clock (left) or the Bauhaus AEG clock (right)?

This style of coffee mug appears on several TV chat shows (Denbyware Halo). I remembered it was the topic of a BBC Inside the Factory programme, presented by Gregg Wallace. But, the programme is "not available" on the BBC channels. The airbrushing out of GW denies us a good programme.

There's something compelling about a backdrop of pine trees - Onkel Toms Hütte housing estate in Berlin, Bruno Taut 1926-32. Does it suggest a permanence due to its location in a well-established neighbourhood?

Gilbert Bayes Queen of Time clock 1931 Selfridges Oxford Street - image via Knowledge of London. Hard to appreciate the quality when viewed from the street below.

1958 for football, but engineer Oscar Faber had pioneered the cantilever stand at Northolt Park Racetrack from as early as 1929. His solution was to clad a steel structure to make it look like concrete.

The towers were the last to go. As they were made from in-situ concrete, they couldn't be taken down brick by brick and relocated - a shame.

Jacobsen designed the cutlery for St Catz. I don't know about the china or glassware.

The proposed relocation of the Patera Building prototype has stalled, throughout the seasons, since Autumn 2022. Photos © Anna Gibb

And Docklands Light Railway from which this 1996 photo was taken showing the LDDC offices that were housed in later Patera Buildings. Photo © Peter Marshall. The distinctive shapes of the Thames Barrier completed 1982 are visible in the background.

In a state of dismantlement, the 1982 Patera Building prototype is presently located in the Royal Docks at Newham at the end of London City Airport's runway. (see white arrow at the bottom of the image - at the former site of Gallions Point Marina Ltd). Used from c1989-2019 as a boatyard workshop.

New plans being drawn up for fire-hit pub in Stoke-on-Trent stoke.nub.news/news/local-n... Arthur Berry used to "hold court" here round the corner from Burslem School of Art, there's a good exhibition of his paintings and a forthcoming play at New Vic Theatre @daveproudlove.bsky.social

The Patera Building prototype in 1982 first erected outside the Patera Products Ltd workshops in Victoria Road Stoke-on-Trent. It was moved to its third location c1989 - now in a semi dismantled state since 2022. photo (left) © - OWLS000258 (right) © GB Pela. @daveproudlove.bsky.social