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My V&A
Terry Farrell reflects on his personal favourites at the V&A in this video on the V&A’s fb page. I’d recommend everyone “Like” the V&A on fb. I am quite in love with the V&A at the...
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The Landscape of Twentieth Century
a Dalle de verre window by Pierre Fourmaintraux at the newly-listed Church of St Raphael the Archange Just found out, through the Twentieth Century Society, about the Landscape Institute Autumn Lecture...
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What future?
I have just discovered the Ove Arup sponsored mini-site on the Guardian webpage The Future of Urban LIving. One question/article is rather touching in its naïvety ‘how do we create a holistic urban...
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Going up?
Another, this time interesting, BBC article about the future of tower blocks “Viewpoint: could people learn to love tower blocks” Now I live in tower block, admittedly a refurbished, privately owned...
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Wythenshawe isolated?
A image of Hulme taken from the top of the Chatham Building (c.1965) showing the cleared site for the construction of the new Hulme. You'll note the Princess Parkway has not been built yet and some of...
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A Place to Call Home
There is a fascinating (looking) exhibiton on at Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in Portland Place, London called A Place to Call Home. It is part of the RIBA’s “Home” Season which is...
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Unrealised_Manc
An artists impression of the planned Royal Exchange station. Just been for quick look at the Infra_Manc exhibition at CUBE in Portland Street. A fascinating insight into the Manchester there never...
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The 70s revisited
The BBC has just started a four-part series simply entitled ‘The 70s’, Mondays 9pm BBC2, the first provided a interesting reading by historian Dominic Sandbrook of the role of the 1970s in normalising...
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The end of the Red Road
Red Road Flats aerial view from http://www.treasuredplaces.org © Yet another Modernist housing estate is to be given the, as Charles Jencks would put it, “coup de grace by dynamite“. Red Road flats in...
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On the move : aviewfromtheinterior.net
This blog has been moved to aviewfromtheinterior. This is because I didn’t feel the title really reflected the blog anymore, it is more about what attracts me in general in design, architecture, social...
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