13.Grey Sky Modernists
Broadgate in Coventry: This had been a medieval square at the heart of the city, identified on the plans on the following pages. It was one of the earliest elements of the redevelopment with a Scandinavian modernist aesthetic.
Members of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) met in December 1940, during the dark days of the London Blitz, to talk about the future of cities. It was an act of supreme optimism, given that Britain at the time stood alone in the war and much of London (and other major cities) was in ruins. However, every cloud has a silver lining, as the main speaker at the event pointed out. Donald Gibson was ...
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