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You can support the modernist society by becoming a member. Get advance notice of exhibitions, events and product launches and get discounts on products and publications .. oh, and you get a badge!
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New in .. some lovely Magpie X Hornsea Patterned Mugs - Backgammon, Circles and Squarecles.
You're welcome.
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Like LEGO? Like Modernism? Well our good friend
@tonyblego
on Instagram has given us some easy to follow instructions to build your own Trellick Tower, Battersea Power Station or Bauhaus Masters House. Head over to our digital shop to download them.
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You liked our Welsh modernism book so much, we've had to print some more..
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How Grey Was My Valley // Mor Llwyd Oedd Fy Nghwm
Released today. This slim volume celebrates the post-war architecture of Wales. Available in English and Welsh.
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Woah! These cheeky little fellas have landed in our shop by Magpie x Hornsea. You need a cruet set, you know you do!
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Watch Helvetica for free, courtesy of film maker Gary Huswit.
March 17 to 24: Helvetica
Helvetica is a feature-length documentary about typography, graphic design and global visual culture and about the way type affects our lives.
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the modernist magazine issue
#37
KINO is on sale now at
#modernistHQ
. Cinema is the theme, photo story ODEON RELICS by Philip Butler
@artdecomagpie
. £7.
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We celebrate the 50th anniversary of the '72 Olympics with a new exhibition München '72' - an exhibition of items from the collection of Ian McLaren.
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the modernist - new issue - journey
Coming Soon!
ROADS by Helen Angell & Richard Davis
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If you’re part of the increasingly large ranks of brutalism fans, or interested in late 20th-century architecture and society in general, Brutalist Britain is the book for you.
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Brutal North : Thursday 15 April 2021 at 18.30. Presented by Simon Phipps with Matthew Steele, Dr Christina Malathouni and Catherine Croft.
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What a great joy it always was to be in a room with Elain Harwood. We are very sad to hear of her death today. She was a whirlwind, so knowledgeable, funny and generous with her time. Elain we will miss you.
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New photo book! Suburban Archetypes by Ian Justice - a study of churches in and around Sheffield ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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‘M62: The Trans-Pennine Motorway’ by Kevin Crooks contains a series of black and white images which capture the solemn, detailed, expansive and manufactured aspects of the landscape in which the M62 motorway is situated.
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In February 2023
@HistoricEngland
listed nine K8 telephone kiosks in Hull. In 'The Beacons of Hull', Esther Johnson tells the story of the K8 telephone kiosk and its unique-to-Hull Honeysuckle Cream variant.
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As a dedicated Modernist
@johnny_marr
catches up on a bit of reading during his tour.
http://t.co/LLAA1ILC00
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So long Richard Rogers. You lived to a good age and you designed some amazing buildings and you will be missed. Chapeau.
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Rochdale Bus Station - one of the 111 buildings featured in 'manchester Modern' by Richard Brook and designed by Vaseem Bhatti.
Published Friday 3rd November 2023 by the modernist.
Available here -
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‘A brutalist hanging gardens of Babylon’ – the maddening, miraculous Barbican hits 40
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We all love Jen Orpin. We all love Forton Services. We all love Pies. We all love Christmas. Not much not to love with these Jen Orpin Christmas cards then is there?
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Our little book on under appreciated Welsh architecture...
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London Tube Stations 1924 – 1961 catalogues and showcases every surviving station from this innovative period. These beautiful buildings, simultaneously historic and futuristic, have been meticulously documented by architectural photographer Philip Butler.
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Russian bus stops are soo last year.. this season we are all about the Welsh shelter. The Modernist issue 28 HOLIDAY. Coming soon.
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a specialist bookshop for modernist architecture and design..
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This month’s
#KnickKnackTuesday
is a kitchen special celebrating the latest issue of the modernist
#38
KITCHEN with
@shipsinthesky63
: pieces from their growing project collection of
#coop
items
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100 20th-Century Shops is a fascinating insight into the heritage of Britain’s changing high street and the diverse architectural styles of the 20th century.
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The Rough Diamond of Norwood:
With photographs by Jo Underwood, find out more about the Brutalist Library Campaign in issue 43.
the modernist
issue 43
out now
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In Case You Missed It - exhibition at
#modernnistHQ
26 atists respond to the imminent destruction of Manchester's much loved UMIST Campus.
@jenorpinpainter
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What would you do with a Georgian shop in Manchester? Turn it into a Modernist Gallery of course! Coming soon.
#modernistHQ
image from
@archivesplus
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Read this meditative and inspiring diary of Derek Jarman's famous garden at Dungeness, which is also a powerful account of his life as an HIV positive man in the 1980s.
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Due to restrictions we’ve had to cancel our
#moderrnistHQ
gallery exhibition supporting the
@PostWarInfrast1
project: work by
@JenOrpinPainter
. Here instead is a selection of her work, link to blog spot with full deets.
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Hull’s cream-coloured phone boxes given Grade II-listed status
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So I can reveal a bit more about our big news from
@modernistsoc
@modernistmag
After years of looking we have finally found a place to open our studio, gallery, shop, HQ. It’s in Manchester’s once trendy northern quarter and we hope to open May 1st. ✊🏼
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A selection from a fave account we follow: Lee Bey (
@leebey
) author of Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side. See the modernist IG page / fb for full details.
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You asked and we delivered. Literally hundreds* of you begged us** to do a passport cover similar to our card wallet and never let it be said we don't give the people what they want. So here it is... our Otl Aicher Pictogram Passport Wallet.
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We are celebrating some of our favourite women designers through the medium of the t-shirt.
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Breakfast espresso anyone? These dinky little coffee cups by MagpiexHornsea are just the ticket.
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The architect Michael McKinnell, perhaps best known for Boston City Hall, has died. Perhaps less well known is that he was born in Salford, attended Salford Grammar and then The University of Manchester. He co-designed Boston City Hall when he was only 25.
Chapeau.
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On Christmas Eve 2022, the Birmingham New Street Signal box will move its final train as the signalling has now gone digital.
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How Grey Was My Valley // Mor Llwyd Oedd Fy Nghwm
Release date. March 1st.
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Almost every day people ask us "When are you going to do a Lego model of Moore Street substation in Sheffield?"
Well - we listened to the people and thanks to TonyBlego here it is.
@JeffersonSheard
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These handsome fellas pitched up on our shelves this morning.. 😺
Cat and Piranha mugs from Magpie x Hornsea.. in chartreuse (well it's more mushy pea green to my mind) and we love them.
Just in our real life shop for the moment, we might add them to the webshop later.
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Mid-Century Britain: Modern Architecture 1938-1963 : Postwar Britain architects often saw architecture as a powerful means to improve the quality of our lives after the shadow of war. This is the fascinating story of what they built to meet that challenge.
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Loitering with Intent, paintings by Mandy Payne with poems by Helen Angell. From 02.09.21. Exhibition at 58 Port Street, Manchester.
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Tonyblego never ceases to amaze us, Le Corbusier's Unite d’habitation in such detail and all in LEGO. Follow the link to download Tony's instructions and make your own:
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We love a Campari here at
#modernistHQ
and we love cycling too.. so we had to share this lovely pic.
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Preston bus station review – a glorious reprieve
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Things to put in a modernist's stocking 1: Badges (of course).
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Take a look at our short film on
Redfern Building & Dantzic Building. Dantzic Street, Manchester.
Offices for the Co-operative Wholesale Society (CWS)
W. A. Johnson and J. W. Cooper. 1936
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Like LEGO? Like Modernism? Well our good friend
@tonyblego
on Instagram has given us some easy to follow instructions to build your own Trellick Tower, Battersea Power Station or Bauhaus Masters House. Head over to our digital shop to download them:
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Back in 2015
@Johnny_Marr
became our patron, read this article from
@ArchitectsJrnal
with Johnny explaining how he got involved:
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Mid-Century Britain: Modern Architecture 1938-1963 : 'All fantastically photographed to make this a must have for anyone interested in our built heritage.'
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This is the stuff of dreams.
We’re renovating a house (don’t ask), & have just found under the floorboards a cache of blueprints drawn by the last owner, who worked for Frederick Gibberd and Architects Co-Partnership. Magical. Feast your eyes on Liverpool RC Cathedral and, I think,
@SaveDunelmHouse
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It's a sunny Easter Saturday and the modernist shop is OPEN!
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Its here! JOURNEY
Its yellow
It has flaps.
And words.
And pictures.
And its yellow.
Going out to our subscribers this week (in white envelopes)
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This afternoon I was posting pics from the great 'own brand' from
@fuelpublishing
and then I get I home to find these in the kitchen..
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new issue | municipal
This issue is a love letter and a lament for the architecture and design of the state and its structures.
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Braw Concrete
by Peter Halliday + Alan Stewart
Our latest book takes a long hard look at Glasgow’s post-war architecture.
You can pre-order at a discounted price here..
#brawconcrete
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Hundreds of architecture and design books, specially selected by us and now available from our online bookshop. Our focus is modernist architecture, graphics, typography, transport, furniture and product design.
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Two years ago we checked out this empty shop in Manchester's Northern Quarter as a potential
#modernistHQ
, we moved in and opened by May. Can't wait to let you back in again.
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We were supposed to be heading into the sunlit uplands as of today so it has kind of ruined the timing of our EU : TEE.
Anyway - we have done a t-shirt celebrating the European Union because, frankly, we think the EU is something worth celebrating.
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When on a lunch break from
@CreativeUtdUK
#prospernorth
training in Hull, what better to do than visit the newly grade II listed Ships in the Sky?
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If you have
@TalkingPicsTV
I recommend you set your videos for 19.45 tonight for this ‘Look at Life’ short film about the rebuilding of Coventry.
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On the blog today i chat to Andy Williams of
@dovesmusicblog
about architecture and the amazing video to their new single CAROUSELS - directed by
@yoniweisberg
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House Music - Architecture on Record Sleeves Curated and written by Andy Votel. Introduction by Jarvis Cocker. (£12.00)
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the modernist x BDP present - The BDP Talk Series.
#1
: Beautiful Brutalism by BDP - focussing on three important (Grade II listed) BDP buildings - Preston Bus Station, Halifax Building Society HQ and The Bank of England Building in Leeds.
6th Oct. 2022
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A huge thank you to all our members, subscribers and online customers who have kept us in business over this last few months. We look forward to seeing you for real soon.
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Salford Technical College - one of the 111 buildings featured in 'manchester Modern' by Richard Brook and designed by Vaseem Bhatti.
Softback edition published Friday 3rd November 2023 by the modernist.
#manchesterMODERN
#modernistHQ
#themodernist
#modernist
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We trash our modernist heritage on a whim: why is Britain so in thrall to the wrecking ball? | Owen Hatherley
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A call for artists - In Case You Missed It
Be part of our celebration of Manchester's UMIST. We are pleased to announce an open call for our winter exhibition 'In Case You Missed it' ..
photo: Bill Ayres
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PRETTY VACANT, the latest in our photo zine series will be available on our online shop from tomorrow. Pretty Vacant charts photographer Darren Holden's explorations of abandoned power stations. Published in a limited edition of 100.
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Issue 39 of the modernist magazine. The Cold War, Chernobyl Power Station, concrete fortifications, bunkers, dynamite factories. Out now.
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When we posted this picture on instagram - you went absolutely bonkers for it! So here's your chance to adorn your wall with.. the Station Car Park, Wolverhampton by Black Country Type
@bctype
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Half-poster, half-magazine, “It’s Never Dull in Hull” explores Boysons ship mural,
#modernist
#cinemas
,
#WilliamWilberforce
and
#AlanBoyson
,
#Hull
’s Post-War plan and a modernist
#mooch
around the city. £10
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You can support our events, exhibitions and publications programme by becoming a
#modernistmember
. Dressing foolishly not required.
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In the latest issue of the modernist magazine, Thaddeus Zupančič
@notreallyobessive
shows us some Municipal Modernist Maisonettes in London, 1946-1965
Out now!
issue 45 - MUNICIPAL
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