Benjamin Carter
@_BenjaminCarter
architect @gortscott - architecture, urbanism, history, art and C20 stuff - studied at @themsarch @cdr_studio 🏳️🌈
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putting the final touches on my thesis and thought I would share some images - examining the urban composition of the case study campuses 1. University of York 2. University of East Anglia 3. University of Essex 4. Illinois Institute of Technology
I’m one of twenty six to have work in this exhibition @modernistsoc and it’s still open for a few more weeks - send me a message if interested in buying a print
In Case You Missed It Twenty-six artists have come together to celebrate their affection for Manchester's former UMIST Campus. buff.ly/3Spr6CJ
Did not know they spun it into position - I love this bridge even more now
What ove arup considered his finest work. Kingsgate footbridge, Durham where 2 legs of the bridge are constructed on shore and swung into position and touch at the most elegant of expansion joints.
the modernist x BDP present - The BDP Talk Series. 2.2 'The Case for Listing' with the Twentieth Century Society buff.ly/45tCOPj
I’ll be presenting my thesis next month in Manchester @modernistmag @C20Society at an event focused on listing post war architecture and landscapes - tickets below the-modernist.org/products/the-m…
RIP Hopkins - whose understated, sober and more contextual high-tech felt very English, as if it grew from the Victorian machine obsession.
Roger Stevens Building, University of Leeds; designed by Chamberlin Powell and Bon, built 1970 - Photo: Simon Phipps #brutalnorth
Great to work with Phil, especially on this featured project. Communication on the project was always easy as it was via a sketch, often abstract, but more lucid than verbal description could ever be
Sketchbook: Philip Etchells bit.ly/3WFRMPm
A huge treasure throve of @BarbicanCentre original graphics, drawings and photos was released: artsandculture.google.com/project/barbic…
‘Cities are measured by what you can do in them for free’ - paraphrasing Alejandro Aravena in conversation with Sumayya Vally hosted by @AJEnglish A rudimentary but productive metric, I think
Never not impressed by the scale of Whitworth Street
Congratulations Yousuf, consistently beautiful work! Great to see a project to reimagine UMIST also winning
Congratulations to the winners of the AJ Student Prize! - Undergraduate: Joe Russell, the Bartlett - Postgraduate: Yousuf Khalil, University of Cambridge - Sustainability: Elle Thompson and Ali Francis, University of Sheffield Supported by @MarleyLtd @LancsArc
Excited to visit Mayfield, seems Manchester’s most transformational built environment project in years is not architectural at all
Studio Egret West’s new Manchester park opens to public bit.ly/3RjTWA5
Surprising that not only are these buildings unlisted, but also have COIs blocking their listing in the future
There are currently two major postwar buildings named after Queen Elizabeth II with live Certificates of Immunity from listing, which new culture secretary @michelledonelan ought now to rethink. 1. Powell & Moya's splendid QEII Conference Centre, Westminster (1981-6)
In this heatwave dreaming of cool library interiors and Chicago in the snow - I wouldn’t mind being back here right now
Intellectual Capital: Benjamin Carter visits the Northwestern University Library in the modernist issue 43 LIBRARY the-modernist.org/collections/th…
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