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Brutalism's last stand

17 years ago 3 min read ArchitectureUtopias
(image from sublime photography [http://www.sublimephotography.co.uk/]) Cedric Price once wrote, (quoted here [http://www.transformationsjournal.org/journal/issue_14/article_04.shtml]): > "What is objectionable,is the staggering
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By: Martin Gittins

RMB City

17 years ago 1 min read CitiesUtopiasDigital design
Chinese artist Cao Fei, AKA China Tracy, has an exhibition of her Second Life installation RMB City at Lombard Freid Projects [http://www.lombard-freid.com/] in New York from February 29th to April
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By: Martin Gittins

Brutal Virtuality

17 years ago 3 min read ArchitectureUtopiasDigital designLondon
Margaret Hodge, UK architecture minister, on modernist architecture: > "When some concrete monstrosity - sorry, I mean modernist masterpiece - fails to make the cut despite having expert opinion behind it, let&
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By: Martin Gittins

Virtual Brutality

17 years ago 2 min read ArchitectureCitiesDesignUtopiasDigital design
Another Brutalist landmark is under threat of demolition. This time it's Robin Hood Gardens in Poplar, East London. Designed by Alison and Peter Smithson, and completed in 1972, it looks likely
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By: Martin Gittins

The Island: London Series

17 years ago 1 min read CitiesUtopiasArtLondon
On show in the atmospheric Crypt of St. Pancras church at the moment (until 2nd March) is an exhibition of the remarkable drawings of Stephen Walter [http://www.stephenwalter.co.uk/]. Called The
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By: Martin Gittins
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