IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and this week features a Building Design (BD) review of the ‘Royal Festival Hall: A Living Icon’.
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Jon Wright writes of Royal Festival Hall: A Living Icon’ for Building Design:
‘This handsome book, edited by Eleanor Jolliffe and Sandy Rattray and published to mark the [75th] anniversary, is the most comprehensive account of the building yet assembled, and it does justice, finally, to a work of architecture that has too often been celebrated without being properly understood’…
‘The Royal Festival Hall was the sole permanent building of the 1951 Festival of Britain – its last surviving remnant’….[and] was an achievement of structural invention as much as architectural vision….
‘Dan Cruickshank’s foreword frames the hall as a tangible expression of a burning desire to create a better society after the destruction of the Second World War, Wallpaper* and that social programme runs as a constant current through everything that follows.’
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