Tag: Design

• Apply Some Pressure

  

  A wonderful testing works on London’s South Bank The imposing art deco Tate Modern and its new-ish extension, coupled with the glass severity that is the Blue Fin Building, tower over a nearby testing facility whose custom-made machine is as enduring a memorial as his own gravestone. The entrance to the building is surmounted with […]

  Sheldon K Goodman

  September 5, 2022

  Engineering, Heritage, History, London, Restored

  Design, Engineering, Highgate, history, mechanical, Science, Southwark, victorian

• One Man and his Dog(s): Stamps, Museums and Steam

  I was at the Victoria and Albert Museum recently to see the small section of funerary monuments and an exhibition on the works of the Georgian architect, William Kent. Before viewing, Steve and I wanted a spot of lunch so went out into the beautifully landscaped central square for a coffee and some pastries. It […]

  Sheldon K Goodman

  July 7, 2014

  Architecture, Heritage, History, Lost, Memorial, People

  art, Brompton Cemetery, Collection, Companion, Design, Dog, Sir Henry Cole, South Kensington, Stamps, V&A, Victoria and Albert Museum