Hilla Becher
Fascinating obituaries of Hilla Becher, part of the photographer duo Hilla and Bernhard Becher who travelled Europe and the States documenting the industrial archaeology of their era.
Eildon Hills in paint
My mother came in from a visit to the National Gallery of Scotland with an idyllic landscape painting by James Ward, 1807, centring on the distinctive nipples of the Eildon Hills. Those trout fishermen standing there in the River Tweed still exist today, reserve a unit at the boilerhouse project and you can be one of them!
Abbotsford spoon
I can’t compete with Private Eye “Me and My Spoon” but I have to record that I spotted a perfect miniature Abbotsford House on a spoon at my local coffee shop, Filament, (they do have a diverse spoon collection as well as faultless coffee). Abbotsford was of course the home of author Sir Walter Scott, who practically defined the novel form, and whose house lies just around the corner from our very own Dingleton boiler house.
The Modern House
Delighted to see theboilerhouseproject.com on the Journal page of themodernhouse.net in the “What We’re Seeing” section.
more web coverage on Docomomo International
Good to feature on the news page of the Docomomo International site
The Boilerhouse Project featured on the spaces.com
Nice piece on the Boilerhouse project on thespaces.com
Wild raspberries at Dingleton, Melrose
Wild raspberry harvest from today’s site visit. I glimpsed a lamppost adjacent to the Boilerhouse site, it chimes with the audio book of “The Magician’s Nephew” by CS Lewis we had just been listening to!
Womersley’s office on the Scottish Screen Archive
I just received a link from Docomomo Scotland to a brilliant short film with footage taken back in 1970 of Womersley’s office! Click on the link and watch from 13 minutes in. It’s a Scottish Screen Archive film essentially celebrating the Borders and is available online on the National Library of Scotland website.
Klein Studio and Gala Fairydean images on Creative Scotland website
Womersley buildings in the Scottish Borders are representing the 20th Century buildings celebrated in the 2014 Venice Biennale, as showcased on the Creative Scotland website.
Womersley featured at Venice Biennale 2014
Thrilled to see that Peter Womersley was one of the three architects practicing in Scotland in the period 1950-1970 chosen by James Grimley of Reiach and Hall Architects to be showcased in one of the publications produced for Scotland’s presence at the 2014 Architecture Biennale in Venice. See page 6 of “Being There, The Fierce and Beautiful World” on the issuu website for a snapshot of Womersley’s work during that time frame. Also pages 19-25 for today’s view of Womersley’s stadium at Galashiels. And the back page for a call to arms to ask who will write the monograph on Womersley; Rebecca Wober I hope!