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Lasdun’s Grade II* heritage listed buildings for UEA are recognised by Historic England as Britain’s ‘first and most successful expression of a university as a small city rather than a...

New Court by Denys Lasdun is often overlooked because of its private nature; its concrete landscape unfolds majestically within the bounds of Christ’s College – its public facing facade on...

Join us to visit some buildings on the Cambridge Modern Map with Harriet Thorpe, architecture and design journalist, who grew up in the university city and returned to chart some...

What to buy an architect and architecture lover for Christmas? Look no further than the Blue Crow Media gift guide! Here we highlight books and prints from some of our...

Jody Burton and Avril Nanton, authors of the Black History London Map, tell us about their mission to improve knowledge and understanding of Black History in London.

Here we meet Vanessa Bell, Anglo-Argentine, Buenos Aires-based writer, curator, educator and author of our new Brutalist Buenos Aires Map. Here she tells us how she became interested in Brutalism,...

Here we pick out some progressive 20th century buildings from the Open House Festival programme that demonstrate innovative uses of concrete, Modernist planning principles, and epic engineering.

In the Tokyo suburb of Mitaka, the Reversible Destiny Lofts are a remarkable residential building designed by artist/architects Shūsaku Arakawa and Madeline Gins. Completed in 2005, the building is a playful,...

The Baba Housing Estate, also known as the Czechoslovak Werkbund, is a collection of modernist houses built around the 1920s to 1930s which experimented with modern technology and engineering.

Alistair Hall, graphic designer and author of the London Street Signs Map, tells us about the craft behind London’s nameplates and how they can be interesting entry points into the...

Mapping London’s quirky alleyways for one of Blue Crow Media’s latest maps – the London Alleyways Map – is Matthew Turner, senior lecturer at Chelsea College of Arts, who has...

The inaugural London Modern festival launches this year in 2022, so we took the opportunity to talk to co-founder Chris Romer Lee.

American architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s 770th and final commission, the Marin County Civic Center encapsulates many of his defining architectural philosophies from his lifetime of work – referencing the utopian...

As we prepare to publish the second edition of our Brutalist London Map, join us on the journey of Brutalist architecture in London from the 1950s to today with Henrietta Billings,...

Author John Grindrod chats to us about his latest book Iconicon.

Author Owen Hopkins unpacks this intriguing movement that dominated Britain in the 1980s, and explains why the style appeals to him.

Our annual wish-list of gifts for lovers of architecture from Modernism to Brutalism, Post Modernism and Contemporary styles.

Learn about Hawkmoor’s signature architectural elements with author Owen Hopkins, and how best to plan your Hawksmoor-tour across London.

London Open House Highlights London’s Open House festival 2021, which sees architectural sites from houses, to pumping stations open their doors to the public, runs from Saturday 4th September to...

Prague local Adam Štěch (born in Děčín, Czech Republic, 1986) has been active across design, architecture, fashion and graphic arts as a theoretician, journalist and curator since 2006. He founded...

Harriet Thorpe explores the exhibition ‘Anything Goes? Berlin Architecture in the 1980s’ at the Berlinische Galerie.

We are raising funds on Kickstarter to help finance our first book, Brutalist Paris.

On March 4, 2021, Felix Torkar presented our new Brutalist Berlin Map for an audience via video link. Here is the presentation for those who missed it. 

A selection of our favourite buildings from Felix Torkar's new Brutalist Berlin Map.

We ship all of our post from the UK. In order to avoid disappointment, below are final posting dates as recommended by Royal Mail. We make our daily post drop...

We're nearing the end of this fabulous 2020 and here's a list of some of our favourite recent publications by independent publishers. As you'll see there is an emphasis on getting...