2012-03-11
post/19134921109
quote 19:52:05
“ a product of a utopia — a dream of a clean and crystalline architecture in glass and steel, in a new rational city structure were tall light-washed buildings are surrounded by green spaces, an urban vision implemented most consequently and at the largest scale in Brazil’s capital Brasília. ”
Professor Thomas Hall, quoted on the Wikipedia entry on the Hötorget buildings, the Swedish inspiration for the London Wall scheme.
2012-02-24
post/18195915171
photo 17:59:28
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B.O.A.C advert, from the official Festival of Britain programme, 1951
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B.O.A.C advert, from the official Festival of Britain programme, 1951
[this is good]
2011-04-04
post/4349726271
photo 23:50:00
Right Dress by Phil Gyford on Flickr.
Phil Gyford:
I was reading about the composer Burt Bacharach and was intrigued that his father, Bert, was an authority on fashion. And I bought his book from 1955.
What a cover.
2011-01-05
2010-10-16
post/1323650616
photo 01:23:00
The Queen’s Building, Heathrow, by Gordon Cullen (detail)
There’s a lovely set full of scans of the then London Airport over on Flickr. Well worth a look. (This building, which turned into Terminal 2, is, I believe, either currently being demolished, or demolished entirely.)
2009-08-31
post/176165766
photo 09:55:14
‘How to use your Brownie Flash III camera’
I could do with this manual.
