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Podcast Monstrosities Mon Amour from the author of Iconicon, Concretopia and Outskirts
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Monstrosities Mon Amour: Onyx House, Mile End, with Will Wiles (opens the original)
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Back to the future in the Austin Maxi - but which future? Is it the East End of London in the Georgian era, or are we in the mid-eighties? That’s right, it’s both! Novelist Will Wiles loves his local landmark, Onyx House, which he says is like a toy designer’s idea of a building, a pomo office block that pretends to be an eighties glass structure bursting from the stomach of a neo-Georgian mansion like Ridley Scott’s Alien. Designed by postmodern maestros CZWG, Onyx House has since been disowned
More Brilliant Maps (opens the original)
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Back in 2024 I was delighted to be asked by Granta whether I would be interested in helping put together a sequel to Ian Wright’s glorious and much-loved book Brilliant Maps. And so today the result of that is published, More Brilliant Maps: An All-New Atlas for Curious Minds. The maps have been beautifully illustrated and brought to life by Richard de Pesando (find out more about his work – and commission him – here). The information has been drawn from a variety of incredible sources, not leas
The Tower of Power (opens the original)
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For such an imposing landmark, it’s easy to lose it close up. From a distance, on the country roads around Aylesbury, there it stands, the lone imposing building on the skyline, roaring like a Godzilla-sized tardigrade, all lugs and heft. Once you’re in the town centre and its fiendish double roundabouts it vanishes among the shopping centres, the subterranean bus station, the buildings old and new. On foot you’re constantly having to look down to make sure you’re not about to sprain your ankle
Monstrosities Mon Amour: Lewisham High Street with Emma Warren (opens the original)
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Here we go again! More kidnapping, more Austin Maxis, more journeys to the curious recesses of the mind of my guest. This time it’s writer Emma Warren, who has celebrated everything from youth clubs to dancing in her marvellous books, and this time shares her infatuation with Lewisham High Street in South London.As a former resident of Lewisham I’m very familiar with the energy of this often maligned corner of South London. It’s too much for some: but not for the residents of this London Borough
Monstrosities Mon Amour: The Great Wall of Kidderminster with Mike Parker (opens the original)
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Kidnapped once more in an Austin Maxi, I find myself in the Land of Mid – Kidderminster, to be precise, admiring its largely unheralded William Mitchell artwork, the Great Wall.Travel writer Mike Parker hails from Kidderminster, and has always loved this vast concrete mural along a retaining wall beside the town’s ring road. Created in 1973 by concrete wizard William Mitchell, the Great Wall of Kidderminster is a third of a kilometre long and features his trademark abstract geometeries and rugge
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