Not sure what they mean by "in need of modernisation" as it's just about as Modern a building as you could imagine.
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Not sure what they mean by "in need of modernisation" as it's just about as Modern a building as you could imagine.
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The Bernat Klein Studio is for sale by auction.
www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
I’ve had a few new followers recently so thought it was time for a wee introduction. I’m Natalie, Southsider, midcentury design and concrete lover, mum to two kids, work full time in public sector and illustrate brutalist architecture in my (sparingly) spare time.
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Assertive use of Microgramma here
A modern, single storey house with a mono-pitch roof. The roof’s high point is towards the viewer, making the side facing the camera two storeys high. The ground floor is covered in a knobbly, white render. The upper storey is clad in black horizontal timbers. The house is very simple, stripped of any needless frills — a black box over a white box. A doorway, black, is set back into the white wall, adding depth. A path made of reclaimed setts (cobbles) leads from the viewer, through neatly trimmed grass, to the door. A leafy tree overlooks the scene.
Initially IDC adhered to a strict monochrome colour palette. Used to its greatest effect in Pennyburn, today this aesthetic survives at its best in The Paddock, a private development of around 35 detached houses, one of which is seen here. Later developments introduced pops of colour. #IrvineNewTown
Yes, definitely Microgramma Bold Extended, though could just as easily be Eurostile with the caps lock on. The subheading is Eurostile Bold Extended. Microgramma famously sci-fi, seen on the Enterprise, in 2001, DeLorean’s Mr Fusion, Moon, Total Recall, Alien…
GLAD WE ALL STILL AGREE THAT THE JAGUAR XJ-S REMAINS ONE OF THE UK'S FOREMOST CULTURAL ACHIEVEMENTS.
"A huge number are simply demolishing them"
Simply indeed, without perhaps thinking of long-term repercussions in the round. These unusual monuments speak to an important time when the car's dominance was sacrosanct and seemed destined to continually rise.
If we are not careful, none will be left.
One of my favourite pieces of New Town art, and one I still need to see.
Cover of 'Building Modern Scotland', listing authors (Alistair Fair, Lynn Abrams, Kat Breen, Miles Glendinning, Diane Watters and Valerie Wright) and showing a group of boys working on their bicycles amid new town housing.
Publication day! A social & architectural history of post-war Scottish new towns: planning & buildings plus community, family, gender, work, education, home. The ebook is FREE via bit.ly/4hLkxn9. Print copy (more attractive!) via www.bloomsbury.com/uk/building-... - do ask libraries to purchase
‘This is the building which often prompts the response “I can’t believe it’s not listed”. Our message for DCMS and the heritage minister, Chris Bryant MP, is: do the right thing.’
C20 in @theguardian.com on the Southbank Centre campaign.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
For our next event, we’ll be joined by the authors of ‘Building Modern Scotland’ who’ll be discussing their research into New Towns.
Tickets available via Eventbrite
A view of the Irvine Centre, an imposing modernist megastructure built across the river in Irvine, Ayrshire, in 1975. It is all angles and straight lines, made of glass, concrete, and shimmering white metal. Behind it rises the spire of the Trinity Church, a large neo-gothic building of 1863 in brightly coloured white and red sandstone. The megastructure engulfs the scene, emphasising its dominating presence.
Finished writing a book chapter. Could greet.
Cover of the book 'Building Modern Scotland', showing a group of boys and their bicycles amid new town modernist housing
Over the next week, I'll add to this post to create a thread about the new book I've co-written, 'Building Modern Scotland'. It's a social and architectural history of Scotland's post-war new towns, written collaboratively by a team from @edincollegeofart.bsky.social & Glasgow University (1/..)
Hill Street was made one of a number of 'conservation streets' by Irvine Development Corporation. Here it is in 2024. Earlier plans, proposed by the Burgh Council, included demolishing half of Hill Street, along with other historic thoroughfares, to create a 'ring road'.
I'll be posting a few photographs of various parts of #IrvineNewTown over the next few weeks. I'll try to keep it chronological.
The initial plan for #IrvineNewTown, prepared by Hugh Wilson (of Cumbernauld fame) was never realised. Wilson proposed capping the Annick Water to the east of Irvine with a concrete deck studded with buildings. The area remains rural today.
*opens book draft to continue writing*
Time for another self-flagellating game of paragraphy-movey.
Only four posts about Irvine New Town on the whole platform! Let's change that.
Fencedyke, in the northern part of Bourtreehill, encapsulates IDC's housing ethos -- layouts that respond to topography, incorporation of existing mature trees / historic buildings, and block colour finishes.
Leaving the Internet's public lavatory wall to join Bluesky like