Twentieth Century Society highlights artistic features of UK's endangered cooling towers in new photography book
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Lizzie Crook
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Summary
The Twentieth Century Society has selected seven photographs from its new book 'Cooling Towers' that highlight the sculptural and artistic features of the UK's under-threat cooling towers. The book explores the cultural significance of these concrete megastructures through art, design, photography, and pop culture perspectives, aiming to raise awareness about their architectural value as many face demolition.
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Simply named Cooling Towers, the book explores the cultural significance of the concrete megastructures through the lens of art and design, photography and pop culture.
It has been curated by
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