architect @gortscott - architecture, urbanism, history, art and C20 stuff - studied at @themsarch @cdr_studio 🏳️🌈
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putting the final touches on my thesis and thought I would share some images - examining the urban composition of the case study campuses
1. University of York
2. University of East Anglia
3. University of Essex
4. Illinois Institute of Technology – at Cambridge, England
My article on the Central Hill Estate has been published in The Modernist’s latest issue, themed around neglect
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I’m one of twenty six to have work in this exhibition @modernistsoc and it’s still open for a few more weeks - send me a message if interested in buying a print
In Case You Missed It Twenty-six artists have come together to celebrate their affection for Manchester's former UMIST Campus.
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the modernist x BDP present - The BDP Talk Series. 2.2
'The Case for Listing' with the Twentieth Century Society
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I’ll be presenting my thesis next month in Manchester @modernistmag @C20Society at an event focused on listing post war architecture and landscapes - tickets below
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RIP Hopkins - whose understated, sober and more contextual high-tech felt very English, as if it grew from the Victorian machine obsession.
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Roger Stevens Building, University of Leeds; designed by Chamberlin Powell and Bon, built 1970
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Photo: Simon Phipps
#brutalnorth
Great to work with Phil, especially on this featured project.
Communication on the project was always easy as it was via a sketch, often abstract, but more lucid than verbal description could ever be
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A huge treasure throve of @BarbicanCentre original graphics, drawings and photos was released: artsandculture.google.com/pr…
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‘Cities are measured by what you can do in them for free’ - paraphrasing Alejandro Aravena in conversation with Sumayya Vally hosted by @AJEnglish
A rudimentary but productive metric, I think
Congratulations Yousuf, consistently beautiful work! Great to see a project to reimagine UMIST also winning
Congratulations to the winners of the AJ Student Prize!
- Undergraduate: Joe Russell, the Bartlett
- Postgraduate: Yousuf Khalil, University of Cambridge
- Sustainability: Elle Thompson and Ali Francis, University of Sheffield
Supported by @MarleyLtd @LancsArc
Excited to visit Mayfield, seems Manchester’s most transformational built environment project in years is not architectural at all
Surprising that not only are these buildings unlisted, but also have COIs blocking their listing in the future
There are currently two major postwar buildings named after Queen Elizabeth II with live Certificates of Immunity from listing, which new culture secretary @michelledonelan ought now to rethink.
1. Powell & Moya's splendid QEII Conference Centre, Westminster (1981-6)
Speculative project: Collier Street Gallery - wedged between viaduct and canal, an existing industrial ruin is retained and bookended by a series of new spaces for two existing Castlefield galleries benjamin-carter.co.uk/collie…
In this heatwave dreaming of cool library interiors and Chicago in the snow - I wouldn’t mind being back here right now
Intellectual Capital: Benjamin Carter visits the Northwestern University Library in the modernist issue 43 LIBRARY
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