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Meetings with remarkable buildings

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Saturday, August 20, 2022

Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

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Regency inventions I must have walked along the Promenade, Cheltenham’s grandest shopping street, hundreds if not thousands of times. On man...
Saturday, October 3, 2020

The Strand, London

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Tea up the Strand I’d worked in the Covent Garden area of London for years before I noticed this doorway on the Strand. It’s a bit of archit...
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Thursday, May 8, 2008

New Street, Birmingham

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ORDER, ORDER (2) In spite of blitzkrieg, modernism, decay, and demolition, there are still plenty of Classical buildings in England. And so...
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Philip Wilkinson
I'm the author of The English Buildings Book, Phantom Architecture, Restoration, the book of Adam Hart-Davis's series What the Romans Did For Us, other books about architecture and buildings, and various books on other subjects, including Dorling Kindersley's handbooks on Mythology (written with Neil Philip) and Religions. IN THIS BLOG I share my encounters with some of my favourite English buildings, including many that are little known and that get short shrift in the architectural history books. Look here for accounts of breweries, prefabs, power stations, corrugated-iron barns and the occasional parish church as I share my meetings with England's remarkable buildings. IN THIS COLUMN, JUST BELOW HERE, are some links to a series of short articles that make up a very brief history of English architecture.
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