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BRADBURY BUILDING

By Edwin Heathcote

LA's Bradbury Building forms the quintessential film noir backdrop. So what's happening now in this architectural cipher for death? Read more

NAKATOMI SPACE

By Geoff Manaugh

The phrase 'Nakatomi space' refers to the film Die Hard to cover the parallel service architecture within contemporary space. Read more

 

ON EDGE: BORDER ANXIETY
IN POSTWAR BRITAIN

By Katherine Shonfield

In this essay written in 1999, Shonfield dissects the complexities of arbitrarily-imposed border conditions. A prescient piece. Read more

 

THE CITY OF THE FUTURE
[an extract]

By Patrick Keiller

'We live now in a future, not as it was imagined in the 1960s, but as it was actually constructed in the 1970s.' Film, surrealism and architecture. Read more