Architectural heritage campaigners in the UK are calling for the Grade II listing of the building above Charing Cross Station in London; that’s it in the picture:

If successful, the 1989 building could be the first Postmodernist building to gain heritage protection in the UK. Only recently did Brutalist architecture (such as Southbank) start being listed, and I can imagine some will spit out their tea upon hearing the news. (King Charles, for one, will not be amused.)

https://londonist.com/london/news/embankment-place-grade-ii-list-twentieth-century-society

Just finished reading this book. It was quite interesting, and joined the dots in my understanding.

A few takeaways: continental modernism only really arrived in the early 1930s, the explosion of “stockbrokers’ Tudor” originated in the Arts & Crafts movement but got picked up by speculative property developers pandering to sentiment, Swedish modern design was more influential in the 20s UK than I thought, and “art deco” is like “techno” in music: used to describe a lot of things that aren’t it

Doris

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@fesshole/116523585121494172

One oversight notwithstanding, that was a good idea: unless, for some reason, the word “lederhosen” is meant to appear in the project, it would have been way to search for and replace before going to production. Of course, one has to remember to actually do this.