Via @mondoagogo's twitter feed, I came across this fabulous image of Trafalgar Square re-imagined as a multi-storey car park. The image is from the 1938 Bressey Report* which proposed re-designing London as a city of the car. It's easy to laugh at these images now, seeing them only as acts of deluded, if comical, folly. But there's something bracing about such un-misty eyed brutalism, even when executed in a charmingly un-progressive 1930's draughting style.
Beats the 4th Plinth anyway.
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* Correction. The drawings are from a 1938 edition of the London Illustrated News which speculated on the implications of the 1937 Bressey Report.
Beats the 4th Plinth anyway.
Read and see more here.....
* Correction. The drawings are from a 1938 edition of the London Illustrated News which speculated on the implications of the 1937 Bressey Report.
