Aesthetic Structures
Subways and Flyovers 002
Gateways and golden ratios – pylon (detail)
Daytime Flats 001
Towerblocks 001
As part of the clearance of the slums, Nottingham’s inner city was transformed by the modernist’s aggressive purity and utopian social engineering.
The jagged angles and clean simple lines failed to herald a brave, transformed society. Utopia didn’t find its articulation and mediation through fearless concrete and instead the city slumped into decay, condemned to a Brutalist death and new slumlands. However, the scaffold is up and once again, the planners are at the fabric once again, unpicking, unpicking, unpicking.
Commerce is what we believe 002
Commerce is what we believe
Cerne Abbas Giant 005
Cerne Abbas Gaint 002
Cerne Abbas Gaint 001
Nighttime Flats 002
Towerblocks 002
As part of the clearance of the slums, Nottingham’s inner city was transformed by the modernist’s aggressive purity and utopian social engineering.
Thrusting vertically against the passive, horizontal plane rose Truth made manifest, pride, certainty and vigour realised by the endeavours of young poets and philosophers, architects of the Brave New World
Gateways and golden ratios
Pylons are the consequence of a competition win and in theory these massive, imposing structures are supposed to be invisible against the grey skies of Britain.
This is not the case and the march of these towers across the landscape seems more an invasion than mere infrastructure. We are being taken over by Greek ideals, to a time when spirit and beauty were intertwined.
Orange Haze 002
Nighttime Flats 001
As the night deepens and to our eyes at least, the solid structures melt into air.
Marx believed that the system sowed the seeds of its own destruction. However, he was mistaken and despite itself, goes from strength to strength.
Subway Flyover 001
Places where no one goes. Abandoned, subterranean, on the boundary between above and below.
What events occur in places like these? Descend to the lower and despair.