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Have we learned nothing from the 60s UK demolitions?

LB — Sat, 21 Nov 2015 07:45:18 +0000

The urban planning disasters of the 1960s in Britain. We think we have learned from them, but have we?

Start watching the video at 14:00 if you don’t want to watch the whole documentary, which is a sort of myth-busting look at the 60s in England.

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Brutalist Vancouver building that hasn’t dated

LB — Sun, 27 May 2012 21:17:54 +0000

(Thanks to Steven Ballegeer for this photo on Flickr)

Just to prove I don’t hate all tall buildings, this early 1970s brutalist concrete highrise in Vancouver is a long-time favourite of mine, and one that I think has held up really well over the years.

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Modernist apartment building #2

LB — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:01:46 +0000

This is part 2 in a series. It’s Lost Lagoon Terrace at 845 Chilco in Vancouver, built in 1972, another example of 1960s/70s modernist apartment architecture.

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When bric-a-brac was part of a revolutionary politics

LB — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 19:07:59 +0000

Vancouver curator Scott Watson’s essay Urban Renewal: Ghost Traps, Collage, Condos and Squats is part of the impressive and totally compelling Vancouver Art in the Sixties website project.

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Vancouver, if Tokyo doesn’t want the Nakagin Capsule Tower, let’s ship it over here.

LB — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:50:26 +0000

It shouldn’t be that difficult; it comes apart. The owner residents of Tokyo’s famous Nakagin Capsule Tower have voted to demolish it and rebuild a “modern” tower on the same location, which is now a valuable property adjacent to the Ginza district.

Furniture makers of Middle Earth

LB — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 04:10:57 +0000

I find this Todd Merrell Antiques magazine ad weirdly compelling. If you end up at his website (now defunct) it’s like being transported into Middle Earth or the underworld. You might have to retrieve an amulet with the help of a talking dog with eyes as big as saucers or something.

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