ALT The cover of a book cataloguing an exhibition of Santiago Calatrava’s 1996 proposal for City Point (then with a space), A new Tower for the City, taken from an AbeBooks listing . This was the start of the process of reworking Britannic House, the 1960s tower. The spire and platform fell foul of London’s planning rules - specifically, one of the protected view of St Paul’s…
From RIBA’s photographic archives : “ Design for offices of British Petroleum (BP), Britannic House, London Wall, City of London: perspective view”, by Francis Milton Cashmore, of Messrs. Joseph & F. Milton Cashmore & Partners, the architects. This is Britannic House, and again the podium level is clearly visible, along with a highwalk connection. This appears to be looking from…
A rendering of Britannic House from Delmatic , “the first major office project to be equipped with Delmatic’s innovative Linked lighting System” when it was BP’s new headquarters. Note the London Wall cluster in the background, in front of the dome of St Paul’s.
arkitekcher : Britannic House | Sir E. L. Lutyens Location: Finsbury Circus, London Note the highwalk / pedway connections at the bottom. These headed to the Barbican (left) and Moorgate (right). I believe all three were lost in 2000, when Britannic House was reclad in glass , extended vertically, and rebranded as CityPoint . There was a replacement, metal walkway that would have been at the far…
Concorde and staff, from the series Britons by Neal Slavin . These photos were taken using a 20×24 Polaroid camera . In his introduction to the book , the founding head of the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Colin Ford, describes the process: The Polaroid 20″ x 24″ Instant Land Camera is a formidable beast, calling for a team of handlers to transport it, feed it, keep it in…
psd : July 18th, 19th 20th July 1985, Bradford Yorkshire #1 by David Hockney, taken from Richard Carter’s write-up of a visit to the Pieced Together exhibition .
David Hockney in photographing and assembling a joiner of the Science and Media Museum - then The National Museum of Photography, Film & Television - in Bradford in 1985, from the exhibition Pieced Together .
blech : A collection of frames from Woldgate Woods, Winter, 2010 , by David Hockney . I saw this and some of the related works at the Hockney retrospective at the de Young Museum in San Francisco over a decade ago, and I still think of them fondly. These videos combine moving image and the multiple viewpoints of his photographic joiners, and combined with the presentation - those are nine 55"…
mwew : london in bleak mode Bastion House , or 140 London Wall, due to be demolished sooner rather than later. I’d be more mournful if the road’s 1960s masterplan had survived more than the 25 years it managed, but I still like this last remnant of the original designs.
ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT Select ’s Images pullout from July 1993. Subjects and photographer credits can be found in both the front page and the alt text.
ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT Select ’s Images pullout from November 1994. Subjects and photographer credits can be found in both the front page and the alt text.
ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT Select ’s Images pullout from June 1993. Subjects and photographer credits can be found in both the front page and the alt text.
A collection of frames from Woldgate Woods, Winter, 2010 , by David Hockney . I saw this and some of the related works at the Hockney retrospective at the de Young Museum in San Francisco over a decade ago, and I still think of them fondly. These videos combine moving image and the multiple viewpoints of his photographic joiners, and combined with the presentation - those are nine 55" screens, so…
A couple of months ago, I wondered: what was the first plane I flew internationally in? It’s an easier question to answer for me than for some; I didn’t take that flight until I was 26. On the other hand, it’s long enough ago that it predates pretty much all of the flight tracking websites - and anyway, they typically charge for anything much older than a week. It also predates…
doubleedgedhead : distance, by Kohei Takada. Commentary by the student’s professor , quoted in a university article on the poster as it won a gold prize (via machine translation): Using the impersonal object of a bank passbook as a motif to represent “money,” the artwork also includes silhouettes of the father and mother and heartfelt messages. A positive aspect is that it…
flavorcountry : ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT I keep a running list of phrases that would make good album titles and I just realized what else they’re good for Some (but not all) of these would make good Culture ship names . Neither Animal Nor Vegetable should be a GSV. Free Maps To God’s House, a GCU. And d(ROU) Everything’s Wrong Nothing’s Fine, perhaps?