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Where you go in Tokyo. Designed by Kazoo Sato, and $Where you go in Tokyo. Designed by Kazoo Sato, and the TBWA\HAKUHODO Disruption Lab for the Tokyo Toilet Project. Photo in Nanago Dori Park with thanks to @toshy129 (need a peak inside … over at @greyscapeworld )$

From one station to another. This is part of Teron

From one station to another. This is part of Terontola-Cortona railway station, Italy. Familiar to fans of Von Ryan’s Express* And here, thanks to @marcotd79 who advised that the architect was Angiolo Mazzoni. And now, if you find yourself at that station which @brutalism.Berlin did, who took this photo, and you fancy a modernist escapade…. less than 20 minutes drive from the station is Via Crucis di Severini where in 1944, local lad and Italian Futurist, Gino Severini created (in the chaos of wartime Italy) a series of modernist mosaics of the Stations of the Cross. Severini (a pal of Picasso) was a co-signatory with artist Umberto Boccioni, poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and others of the Manifesto of Futurism and an internationally recognised and honoured leading figure of the movement. Regardless that many of the founder members were Italian, the authors of the Manifesto made their public declaration of intent in Paris’ Le Figaro newspaper in 1909. As we now know the movement became heavily associated and sympathetic to Italian Fascism and arguably shaped it visually and gave it some of its particular language, but like all artists movements- there are splits and while too many Futurists, Severini and Angiolo Mazzoni included, clearly embraced Fascism, not all did. According to a blog post by Marshall Colman the Severini mosaics are very hard to find but well worth the effort, the sketches made in preparation are held in the Museo Diocesano del Capitolo di Cortona. Little anglo-add-on, in 1922 Severini created a fresco for the Sitwell family at Castello di Montegufoni, on the outskirts of Florence. Added a photo of the railway station from another angle over at @greyscapeworld *and a thank you to @martinfriedricharchitects for the ‘history of film’ nugget about Von Ryan’s express

Jack Carter: 'You're a big man, but you're in bad

Jack Carter: 'You're a big man, but you're in bad shape. With me it's a full time job. Now behave'. Designed in 1962 by twice former President of RIBA, Owen Luder who died in September 2021. Completed in 1967, demolished in 2010, Trinity Square shopping centre and car park featured in a key scene in the iconic British thriller Get Carter, staring Michael Caine as Jack Carter. The brutalist shopping centre and car park dominated the local landscape. As it fell into disrepair there were plans to change it into an art gallery but the plan did not come to fruition and due to the building not being 'listed', Gateshead Council decided to demolish it. They then sold pieces of concrete from the demolished structure as 'commemorative pieces of concrete in specially decorated tins' for £5 per tin (If you by chance know how to credit for this photo please shout out! Seem to have it saved but not named!)

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