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A walk around the Barbican, London – September 2018

24 Monday Sep 2018

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Barbican, brutalism, concrete, Fujifilm

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A few photos taken with some time to kill on my way to see Gruff Rhys at the Barbican a couple of weeks ago. And some more photos here.
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Open House London 2018: the Quaker Meeting House in Blackheath (and more)

22 Saturday Sep 2018

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Architecture, Blackheath, brutalism, Open House London, Quaker Meeting House, Trevor Dannatt




It’s been a few years since we’ve managed to go to any of the Open House London properties, but today we made it all the way over the heath to see Britain’s only Brutalist Quaker Meeting House, tucked away down a side road near the station in Blackheath. Designed by architect Trevor Dannatt OBE and opened in 1972, it’s a clever building, split over two levels and making good use of a small corner. I particularly like the way light is let in around the corners of the main meeting room’s ceiling, as well as through the wooden window structure in the centre. The mood in the building was as serene as you might expect. You can see more of my photos of Blackheath’s Quaker Meeting House here.

After that, we walked over to Boone’s Chapel on Lee High Road; I’d never heard of this until it was mentioned when I went to visit Charlton House’s Summer House on Thursday to take some photos of the restoration works in advance of Open House Weekend for The Charlton Champion. It turns out that the architect responsible for the restoration work had done similar work at Boone’s Chapel and is now based there, and part of the display explained the history and importance of Charlton House’s Summer House in a much better way than I’d seen previously. I failed to get any photos, though: too many people in the way – hopefully I’ll get back to an open day there at some point soon.

Also on the subject of heritage open days, I have some photos on the Charlton Champion today of the Grade II-listed structures you can visit night or day, any day of the week, namely two K2 telephone boxes…

Arundel St, London; March 2015

20 Friday Mar 2015

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Arundel Street, brutalism, demolition, Fuji X100T, london, modernism

A walk from Temple tube up to Niall McDiarmid’s Via Vauxhall book launch took me past this (Brutalist? Modernist) demolition site. I was particularly caught by the old-fashioned chimney pots hiding away amongst the concrete.

 

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