ReadingDesign

Reading Design is an online archive of critical writing on design

[C20 Society @C20Society]

C20 has worked closely with 6a Architects to ensure the key surviving elements of James Stirling’s design for @tateliverpool will be retained and sensitively resited.

Read more about the ambitious plans for Britain’s first national museum of modern art in this excellent @FT article by @edwinheathcote

[edwin heathcote @edwinheathcote]

What a venue. Grand Palais, Art Basel Paris. Mostly dry.

[Financial Times @FT]

Cathedrals of industrial power are ripe for reimagining https://t.co/HmYMhgli9l | opinion

[Stone Club @the_stone_club]

Avebury Series No. 4 1973
Derek Jarman

[Municipal Dreams @MunicipalDreams]

Ernő Goldfinger, born on this day in Budapest in 1902. I've written about Balfron Tower in this post ...
https://t.co/HW123ARI0C

[lusso @luusssso]

The Eppich House II By Arthur Erickson

Vancouver, British Columbia

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

NYC, 1960

[edwin heathcote @edwinheathcote]

PoMo piazza. Charles Moore’s Piazza d’Italia, New Orleans, 1978. Looking soggy in the rain but at least intact. Strange space, the planned development around it never happened leaving it as a gated public space, open till dusk.

[Design Reviewed | Graphic Design History @DesignReviewed]

Drukkersweekblad en Autolijn Kerstnummer 1956, No 52 , 1956 Inner Spreads https://t.co/pwAYxMFfFd #graphicdesign #dutchdesign

[Otto Saumarez Smith @OSaumarezSmith]

Little of Bracknell’s new town centre survives, but I like this car park concrete lettering.

[edwin heathcote @edwinheathcote]

IM Pei, Hong Kong review — much more than just the Louvre Pyramid via @FT ⁦@mplusmuseum⁩
https://t.co/6l9XcobWPH

[alain servais @aservais1]

Inside the hidden Modernist houses of São Paulo. Aberto, a new annual art show staged amid the fragile remnants of the city’s architectural legacy, opens up striking unseen interiors. By @edwinheathcote #PayWall https://t.co/dYeae8Gpkh via @ft

[edwin heathcote @edwinheathcote]

The wonderful Henry Steiner — the graphic designer behind ‘brand Hong Kong’ via @FT Great little exhibition ⁦@mplusmuseum⁩
https://t.co/BaiweoggoR

[edwin heathcote @edwinheathcote]

So sorry to hear that Kenneth Grange has died. A great designer and a truly lovely man.

[edwin heathcote @edwinheathcote]

In conversation here with @timabrahams on the public realm, street furniture and my last book, ‘On the Street’ published by @HENI @On_the_Street_i It was fun.

[edwin heathcote @edwinheathcote]

The Centre Pompidou prepares for a controversial revamp via @FT
Moreau Kusonoki and Frida Escobedo, seem a slightly odd choice. https://t.co/JqgNuaqWvi

[Soviet Visuals @sovietvisuals]

Profession architect. Ukrainian career guidance poster, 1989.

[FT Property @ftproperty]

'It is a city that understands how to maintain that mix of perfection and potential, the palazzo and the perfect espresso in a neighbourhood café' https://t.co/Ro9Dh7hlND

[edwin heathcote @edwinheathcote]

Milan Metro bits. Magic. Franco Albini and Franca Helg.

[On the Street @On_the_Street_i]

Quotidiana. Milan.