2013-03-13
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Birmingham Central Library. R.I.P. 1973 - 2013.
A beautiful, early image of Central Library’s inner courtyard. Now due to be demolished in order to make way for corporate office blocks.
Sigh. (keeptheziggurat is a site “celebrating John Madin’s brutalist Central Library building (Birmingham, UK), and questioning the need for it to be demolished.”)
2012-02-09
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Tim Bowditch: “This time-lapse was produced to document Simon Terrill’s Balfron Project.”
2012-01-05
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2010-12-07
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The PanAm Worldport, a terminal at JFK (built when it was still Idlewild, at the dawn of the jet age). Sadly, it’s being demolished:
The plan would entail the demolition of the smaller terminal, the PanAm Worldport, an architectural symbol of the 1960s jet age that has nevertheless been described as a blight on the airport by passengers and airline executives alike.
Delta has long lamented the state of the Worldport, which it uses for many of its international flights, describing the space as unpleasant and unfit for its role as a gateway to the United States for international travelers.
2010-10-16
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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.)
2010-04-07
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Brasilia celebrates 50 years at BBC News In Pictures, by Rene Burri of Magnum Photos.
