Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain

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Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain

Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain

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Iconnect magazine is published quarterly and covers the conservation and restoration of cultural heritage in the UK and abroad. Whether modest or monumental, they offer a living history of Britain, symbols of the forces that have shaped our modern landscape and icons in their own right. This icon set features a wide variety of social media logos, perfect for web pages and online outlets. Make the article as accessible as possible and do not recycle a dissertation or project/treatment report because it will read like one. Having been born in Croydon, Grindrod is a native of an optimism around Modernism which faded at the edges .

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Grindrod's highly readable style, more akin to a page-turning novel, makes this polemical work on something that touches us all, a pleasure to read. Politics, architecture and planning combine in a vital argument that the built environment is not just where we live but has a powerful impact on who we are. Chirpy though Grindrod's prose style is, replete with pop references and hip asides, what he chronicles is the accelerating decline of the UK since 1980 as expressed through what we build. Facts he reveals are alarming, during the boom in the 1980s for owner-occupier housing, less than five per cent of new builds were designed by an architect.I like the way this book focuses on buildings that often seem sub-architectural: business parks, out-of-town supermarkets, and new-build dormer suburbs as well as the more-than-architectural (Docklands, the Dome, dodgy cladding).

At least, Grindrod concludes, a new generation of young architects appears more conscious of the need to improve life for whole communities, not just the rich and powerful. The Terry Farrell designed Embankment Place, owned by the Sultan of Brunei, who introduced stoning to death for adulterers and gays, had in its basement Heaven Club.However, icon sets are groups of icons that share characteristics with each other and can be downloaded individually. SVG sprites allow you to reference an external file similar to an element, but with the power of currentColor for easy theming. His take on it is very British-comedy - a bit self-deprecating, a bit nostalgic, and full of human warmth, though it does get a bit bleaker toward the end. You can ignore most expressions of art: nobody forces you into an art gallery; you can walk out of a play or cinema; and stop reading a book.

This story was about buildings, both the big and famous like the Barbican and the small and everyday like housing estates.Each issue reaches more than 2,300 conservation sector professionals, academics and students, material and equipment suppliers, culture vultures and conservation fans across the broader public, and allied professionals.



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