We’re delighted to announce that our next book, Cabin Crew, is now available to pre-order.
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We look the work of Hird & Brooks, and their series of little-known holiday cabin sites, hidden away in rural Wales and the Scottish Highlands.
Its back! By popular demand both Welsh and English versions - How Grey Was My Valley // Mor Llwyd Oedd Fy Nghwm by Peter Halliday. A slim volume celebrating the post-war architecture of Wales. (£9.00).
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So, here’s a good example of why to treat GenAI content with caution. I asked Google Bard about Welsh Postwar architecture. It’s response included this sentence: “Atlantic College in Llantwit Major, designed by the Welsh architect Erno Goldfinger”
#ai#GoogleBard#GenAI
As it's the first day of the school summer holidays in Wales and #IceCreamMonth, where better to go than the Big Apple Kiosk, Mumbles! Built of poured concrete in the 1930s as part of a series of promotional kiosks for Cidertone, this one is a rare survivor.
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What's your favourite piece of graffiti? I don't know if mine still exists, but there used to be one saying "Lubię rosół". Which translates as "I like chicken noodle soup". How could you not?
@modernistmag@bdp_com Wish I could come along (I’d even picked out some home wares, bought in kingsway Ibadan as a show and tell). But just not feasible…
Final talk of this season...
the modernist x BDP present - The BDP Talk Series #6 : Ewan Harrison - Kingsway Stores and the Ends of Empire in West Africa.
Thursday 16th March 2022 @bdp_com
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Shropshire is an unlikely haven of post-war municipal architecture. Thanks to a succession of strong-willed leaders in the county architects office, it punches well above its weight in the modernism stakes. @PeterBRHalliday in issue 45 of the modernist.the-modernist.org/collections/th…
To celebrate the launch of my new book, I'm giving away a free copy. Retweet to enter (UK only) and a random winner will be selected on Boxing Day! amzn.to/3Pg3ug1#modelmaking#architecture#history
@shroppiemon If you were really Shropshire, you’d have done none of those things, just sat in the pub, had a few pints, and a laugh with the boys (& girls)
How Shropshire are you?
Okay me owd butties, I get fed up with spam data collecting questions on social media so just for fun I’ve created a Shropshire one. Award yourself one Shropshire butterbun for each one you have done