Not this blog’s archives: collections of papers relating to Toynbee. I’ve added a list in the About section on the left.
Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, New Bodleian, Oxford, completed 1940
Not this blog’s archives: collections of papers relating to Toynbee. I’ve added a list in the About section on the left.
Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, New Bodleian, Oxford, completed 1940
October 14 2011 at 10:49 pm
Modernity that was then spoiled by later modernity.
October 15 2011 at 10:32 am
Everything in this picture is perfect. The tree, the position of the car and the figures, the sense of foreground space, the feeling of an uncluttered tranquil town where buildings still look as they were meant to, the range of light and dark.
Here’s a history of the building and of the “nice corner of jostling old houses” that was demolished to make way for it:
http://www.headington.org.uk/oxon/broad/buildings/north/new_bodleian/index.htm