BRABAZON HANGAR Brabazon Hangar, Filton, Bristol, by David du Rieu Aberdeen,...

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TitleBrabazon Hangar, Filton

Creator nameAberdeen, David du Rieu

Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)

Creator roleArchitect

Creation date1946–1948

Object typeArchitecture

LocationBristol, United Kingdom

SubjectsArchitecture--England--History--20th centuryModern movement (Architecture)--20th century

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7. Transport

Elain Harwood

Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture, 1945–1975

Transportation was the greatest area of change in the twentieth century. Towns and suburbs had been planned around the railway and tram, to which the inter-war decades added the trolleybus and motor bus. But it was the motor car that changed Britain most profoundly, though it proved the hardest of all innovations to...

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Elain Harwood

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Related print edition pages: pp.299-331

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Chapter subject tags:Architecture--England--History--20th centuryModern movement (Architecture)--20th centuryBridges--Design and construction--England--20th centuryModernism (Aesthetics)Railroad stations--England--20th centuryBrutalism (Architecture)City planning--England--20th century

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