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English Heritage reviewed by Rowan Moore
United Kingdom Architecture News - Nov 02, 2015 - 15:07 3494 views
The Wimbledon house, designed by Richard and Su Rogers for the former’s parents in the late 60s. image © James O Davies/English Heritage
Rowan Moore, from The Guardian highlights postwar architects' works and reviews English heritage as a romanticism, a space, hope and an example of brutalism. Here's the review of the author:
In about 1950, the architect Berthold Lubetkin had an arresting but rejected vision for Peterlee, the new town built for a mining community in County Durham. He wanted to run a main road through its centre, such that “young couples could sit on its banks watching the traffic, the economic pulse of the nation, with coal and pig iron in huge lorries moving south, while from the south would come loads of ice-cream and French letters”.......Continue Reading
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