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New limited print series I made for Unite d'Habitation for Galerie 318 with Foundation Le Corbusier. The print is available ONLY in the physical shop, right in the Unité building in Marseille – another reason to visit it.

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Castle Market in Sheffield was a brilliant structure that housed everything from offices and shops to multiple floors of market stalls and cafes. Designed by Andrew Darbyshire, it was built in stages between 1959 and 1965.

You could get anything you needed there and it was a popular meeting place for working class people. Musician Jarvis Cooker had his first job there, working at a fish stall.

Change in people’s shopping habits and city's push for redevelopment of the area led to closure of the building in 2013. A listing application was refused and the whole structure was demolished two years later. The site is still empty, waiting to be turned into a park next year.

I based my illustration on a plethora of historical photographs, to get the original details right. Some of the initial tenants were National Provincial Bank, Sheffield Corporation Waterworks, Tylers, Bunneys..

Oh and yes, it's available as a print.

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Bastion House and The Museum of London are two 1970s landmarks designed by Powell & Moya, one of the most significant practices in postwar Britain. C20 Society called them ‘A rare survivor of a hugely important part of the City of London’s post-war planning history’.

The site is at an extremely complex corner of Barbican estate – bordered by Grade I listed remains of a London Wall bastion, Grade II listed Ironmorger Hall and two busy roads. This translated into the design of intricate podium structure. In the east it’s topped with a tower (Bastion House), while the south western edge extends over the road into a roundabout/new bastion.

The whole 'set' is slated for demolition and replacement by two office towers by Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Barbican Quarter Action and C20 spent the last three and half years valiantly fighting for protection and adaptive reuse of the existing buildings. This autumn the campaign won a right to present the case to the High Court.

Rejection of adaptive repurpose of existing structures is incredibly wasteful in material, energy and CO2. Perhaps the current system needs to be updated to give more incentives to good developers wishing to retain and update existing buildings, rather than tore them down.

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Milton Gate is a Pomo High-Tech jewel and Denys Lasdun’s last major building. Application to have the ’glass castle’ listed and protected was rejected. Partial demolition and significant modification are coming.

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Minster Court is fading into the redevelopment mist. It'll come back as a shadow of itself, defanged and bland – and more marketable.

If we don't look after our 80s/90s Pomo heritage, we might wake up one day to a city missing this important layer.

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🎄 Book for people who like architecture, social history and NYC. Modern New York written and illustrated by me, published by Rizzoli. 4.7/5 on Goodreads, 5/5 on Amazon! 🎄

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Illustration of Terry Farrell's Mi6 building in London.

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Fun to illustrate POMO in Bermondsey – China Wharf by CZWG. It's really hard to see this façade in real life, as it faces the Pool of London.