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Ron Hitchins died in 2019 aged 98. He was a Chinese Lithuanian East Ender, who worked as a tailor, a coal miner, a flamenco dancer, & an abstract sculptor &
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Gerd Winner's atmospheric early-1970s screenprints of London dockland wharfs: And the silent streets behind: Some more: & another - in Bankside I believe. I love how they capture the various
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Here a porcelain palette plate (from @V_and_A), made in Paris 1810-20, so that a painter could gauge the eventual colour of enamels after firing. A functional object that inadvertently ends
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Very jolly game with a first year class asking them to guess the functions of the following buildings: So the answer is: they are all Victorian pumping stations. I recently
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I love love love this archive of 12000+ photographs of the everyday built environment in provincial France: https://www.archive-arn.fr/ . The photography is consistently superb & the search function, by typology, material,
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Thanks @TMOWilkinson for asking me to pick 10 loathed buildings. Doing something slightly different I thought I'd share 10 demolished buildings I loved or would have loved to have seen.
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Nominated by @gilliandarley for 10 buildings I love. 1. Laon Cathedral - here I am sitting in empty nave. Laon wears the then-new Gothic style with such graceful & intellectual
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