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Inside Out: Artist Lives On The Edge In Ghost Rooms

Inside Out: Artist Lives On The Edge In Ghost Rooms

French artist Thierry Mandon teeters on the edge of the past, present and future in his Inside Out art ...
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The Rocket Book – A Fabulous Illustrated Children’s Story from 1912

The Rocket Book – A Fabulous Illustrated Children’s Story from 1912

The upward progress of a rocket, lit in the basement by the janitor's son, causes some strange situations as it passes through 20 floors of apartments! ...
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Ghost Town: Photographer Documents A Deserted Glasgow During Lockdown

Ghost Town: Photographer Documents A Deserted Glasgow During Lockdown

For photographer and archivist Neil McDonald, Lockdown was an opportunity to document the impact of a global pandemic on his home city of Glasgow ...
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The Bubble Palace:  A Tour of Pierre Cardin’s Futuristic Home, Palais Bulles

The Bubble Palace: A Tour of Pierre Cardin’s Futuristic Home, Palais Bulles

A looks around Pierre Cardin's home of interconnected terracotta igloos ...
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The Austere Beauty of Louis Kahn’s 1963 Salk Institute for Biological Research, “Arguably the Defining Work of the Greatest American Architect”

The Austere Beauty of Louis Kahn’s 1963 Salk Institute for Biological Research, “Arguably the Defining Work of the Greatest American Architect”

Built between 1962 and 1963, the complex reflects the joint beliefs of both Kahn and Jonas Salk, discoverer of the polio vaccine, who gave the architect a brief for “a facility worthy of a visit by Picasso.” ...
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Buy Prints Eugene Atget – The Photographer who Walked Fin de Siècle Paris

Eugene Atget – The Photographer who Walked Fin de Siècle Paris

Atget (1857-1927) wandered the streets of Paris dressed in a large black cloak and floppy hat, his camera slung on its tripod over his shoulder. He drifted until something triggered a response which he stopped to photograph. ...
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The Rolling Stones, Vince Taylor, Denis Nilsen and the History of Centre Point, Denmark Street and St Giles

The Rolling Stones, Vince Taylor, Denis Nilsen and the History of Centre Point, Denmark Street and St Giles

In July 1949 fifty-four residents wrote a letter to the Times about living in St Giles Rookery under the headline "A Sanitary Remonstrance": "We live in muck and filth. We aint got no priviz, no dust bins, no drains, no water-splies, and no drain or suer in the hole place." ...
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Naked and Demolished In Runcorn: The Scandalous Tale of James Stirling’s Lost Utopia

Naked and Demolished In Runcorn: The Scandalous Tale of James Stirling’s Lost Utopia

  Hugh Pearman tells the scandalous tale of James Stirling’s lost Utopia: In July 1981, in ...
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Watching A B-25 Mitchell Bomber Hit The Empire State Building (1945)

Watching A B-25 Mitchell Bomber Hit The Empire State Building (1945)

"It was a very small universe at that point. You're stuck there in an island, with fire all around us" ...
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Extraordinary Gas Stations From John Margolies’ Archive of Americana Architecture

Extraordinary Gas Stations From John Margolies’ Archive of Americana Architecture

John Margolies (1940-2016) recorded visual wonders found along American roads. Through his photojournalism we see the kind of ...
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North, East, South, West – View from the Post Office Tower in 1970

North, East, South, West – View from the Post Office Tower in 1970

The BT Tower was originally commissioned by the General Post Office (usually known as the ...
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The Stupendous Old Cincinnati Library (1874 – 1955)

The Stupendous Old Cincinnati Library (1874 – 1955)

Built in 1874 on the site reserved for an opera house, the Old Cincinnati Library was a ...
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