@notesfromcirce

Architect, cocktail builder, potion brewer, flying boat lover, reader.

 Cheshire, United Kingdom
Joined October 2016
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Landslides force dismantling of Frank Lloyd Wright Jr’s celebrated glass chapel: ‘It’s a crying shame’ theguardian.com/us-news/arti…

Landslides force dismantling of Frank Lloyd Wright Jr’s celebrated glass chapel: ‘It’s a crying...

Relocation of the Wayfarers Chapel on the Pacific coast shows the vulnerability of cultural sites in an increasingly volatile climate

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Nuclear reactor or medieval castle? Brutal Welsh architecture – in pictures theguardian.com/artanddesign…

Nuclear reactor or medieval castle? Brutal Welsh architecture – in pictures

A new title in Simon Phipps’ bestselling Brutalist series, this photographic exploration of modernist Wales features over 60 extraordinary buildings, including many lesser-known examples of Welsh...

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London cab shelter is last of remaining 13 to be given listed status theguardian.com/uk-news/2024…

London cab shelter is last of remaining 13 to be given listed status

Wooden structure in St John’s Wood joins 12 other surviving shelters out of the original 60 built between 1875 and 1950

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‘A bygone world of glamour’: Hollywood and the age of couture – in pictures theguardian.com/artanddesign…

‘A bygone world of glamour’: Hollywood and the age of couture – in pictures

George Hoyningen-Huene’s images of movie stars, exotic locations and fashion trends defined an era – as this first book on his work in decades shows

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The Oxford English Dictionary’s latest update adds 23 Japanese words theguardian.com/books/2024/m…

The Oxford English Dictionary’s latest update adds 23 Japanese words

More than half of the borrowed words relate to cooking, while Kintsugi, the increasingly popular art of repairing broken pottery with gold lacquer is also included

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Rare camellias at English stately home bloom again after £5m revamp theguardian.com/culture/2024…

Rare camellias at English stately home bloom again after £5m revamp

Newly restored plant house at Wentworth Woodhouse, home to some of world’s oldest camellias, formally opens as a global teahouse

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‘The original selfie?’: Cardiff borrows Van Gogh self-portrait for selfie show theguardian.com/artanddesign…

‘The original selfie?’: Cardiff borrows Van Gogh self-portrait for selfie show

Musée d’Orsay in Paris lends painting in exchange for a Renoir for Welsh Art of the Selfie exhibition

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‘I am not very good at design’: architecture’s top honour goes to Riken Yamamoto theguardian.com/artanddesign…

‘I am not very good at design’: architecture’s top honour goes to Riken Yamamoto

The Pritzker prize has been won by the 78-year-old Japanese master whose work ranges from an open-access Hiroshima fire station to a building seemingly made of books

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The heavy hand of God: Europe’s brutalist churches – in pictures theguardian.com/artanddesign…

The heavy hand of God: Europe’s brutalist churches – in pictures

Vienna-based photographer Jamie McGregor Smith has spent years travelling the continent in search of sacred spaces that allowed architects’ imaginations to run wild

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Tropical Modernism review – a complex story of power, freedom, craft… and cows theguardian.com/artanddesign…

Tropical Modernism review – a complex story of power, freedom, craft… and cows

Modernist architecture’s arrival in India and colonial west Africa, and how, post-independence, a new generation of local architects made the style their own, is explored in an intriguing new...

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‘We don’t need air con’: how Burkina Faso builds schools that stay cool in 40C heat theguardian.com/environment/…

‘We don’t need air con’: how Burkina Faso builds schools that stay cool in 40C heat

Architects use local materials and merge traditional techniques with modern technology to make schools and orphanages cool, welcoming places

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BT Tower: a history of the London landmark – in pictures theguardian.com/business/gal…

BT Tower: a history of the London landmark – in pictures

The Grade II-listed building, once the tallest structure in the capital and famous for its revolving restaurant, has been sold to a US hotel group for £275m

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Charlotte Benton obituary theguardian.com/artanddesign…

Charlotte Benton obituary

Co-creator of an Open University course that had a profound effect on the study of design history in Britain

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Saul Leiter review – glorious survey of an impressionist with a camera theguardian.com/artanddesign…

Saul Leiter review – glorious survey of an impressionist with a camera

Leiter looked at the street life of Manhattan and beyond with precise ideals of beauty and an infectious joy

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War, peace and goalkeeping pandas: Bert Hardy’s nostalgic Britain – in pictures theguardian.com/artanddesign…

War, peace and goalkeeping pandas: Bert Hardy’s nostalgic Britain – in pictures

From bomb factories to royal weddings via the odd 17-stone wrestler, these wonderful black and white image capture the country as it fought – and recovered from – the second world war

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Lovingly reconstructed miniatures of Tokyo houses – in pictures theguardian.com/artanddesign…

Lovingly reconstructed miniatures of Tokyo houses – in pictures

Swedish artist Christopher Robin Nordström creates tiny replicas of Japanese buildings

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Britain’s 45 remaining cooling towers are architectural gems. Let’s save them theguardian.com/artanddesign…

Britain’s 45 remaining cooling towers are architectural gems. Let’s save them

Cooling towers are some of the most majestic structures ever built in Britain. The few that remain deserve to be preserved as much as any church or castle

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Tom Gauld reworks some classic books for the older reader – cartoon theguardian.com/books/pictur…

Tom Gauld reworks some classic books for the older reader – cartoon

The Grey Gatsby, anyone?

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‘People are devastated’: anger and anxiety as Peak District loses its last bank theguardian.com/money/2023/d…

‘People are devastated’: anger and anxiety as Peak District loses its last bank

Early next year, the NatWest in the market town of Bakewell will close, leaving the whole area ‘de-banked’

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A celebration of birds in Lego and ink – in pictures theguardian.com/environment/…

A celebration of birds in Lego and ink – in pictures

The Dutch artist Roy Scholten recreates his favourite feathered friends with an unusual kind of letterpress printing

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