Paul Dobraszczyk
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Magpie architectural writer and image maker. Books include Botanical Architecture (out in 2024); and Animal Architecture (Reaktion, 2023).
Manchester, England
Joined October 2010
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The magnificently bonkers former offices of the Royal Doulton factory in Lambeth
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A row of former weavers' cottages in the hills above Heptonstall, West Yorkshire
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Stockport had the look of a scruffy Paul Klee painting this afternoon
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Southampton Row, Holborn: this building always brings joy
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My discovery of the day are German Tanzlinden - rural linden trees turned into places to dance, the oldest of which dates from 1686. This one is in Peesten north of Nuremberg
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A long hot day all over London filming sewer-related content: lovely to visit this old friend, the Crossness pumping station
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And a cropped view of those stupendous cooling towers. These structures should be listed and repurposed rather than sentenced to death.
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Vauxhall Bridge, London. What's behind is pure madness, like a child's game that got seriously out of hand.
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Le Corbusier meets Lutyens meets 1970s British vernacular: the rather fabulous house named Tamara in Whaley Bridge.
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This view on Swan Street in Manchester captures the madness of a city frantically monetising all of its available left-over spaces. The old city becomes a mere stage set - and an extremely fragile-looking one at that.
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The Barbican Centre was in stupendous form this morning in the pin-sharp light
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Manchester's architectural layers: 400 years in one shot.
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Surely the most unexpected building in Manchester: Gorton Monastery, rising above the surrounding low-rise 1980s housing of East Manchester like a inexplicable gothic dream
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A frankly incomprehensible building in Whalley Range, Manchester
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One of the most extraordinary photographs I've ever seen: Edward Burtynsky's image of the Uralkali Potash mine in Russia. These are not giant ammonites, but the marks left by the tunnelling machines.
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The surreal juxtapositions of Manchester's new skyline
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A swallow flying out of West Kennett long barrow - a remarkable set of neolithic burial chambers (c.3650 BCE) on the Marlborough Downs
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Can’t quite believe I’m finally seeing this in person
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In the depths of the West Kennett long barrow, with its moon-like oculus
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Even the most mundane spaces can, in certain circumstances, become wondrous. The car park of Stockport's job centre.
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Amazing to catch this moment of astonishing light on the Bridgewater Canal this afternoon.
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Four recently captured architectural contrasts in Manchester, a city that continues to astonish me 13yrs after settling here
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Three material layers of Manchester: 19th-century brick, 20th-century concrete, 21st-century glass
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The 'other' Manchester - that city of darkness and dirt - is still there, just about.
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Three views of a group of blue gasometers, Regent Road, Liverpool
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The astonishing font in St Nicholas' church in Burnage, Manchester. The building and its interior fittings were all designed by N. F. Cachemaille-Day and the church was opened in 1932.
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What a moment to enter Tewkesbury Abbey for the first time! Surely England's finest non-cathedral church?
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A stupendous building, lovingly restored. Drop everything and get yourself to the newly opened Rochdale Town Hall!
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Entrance to the Islington tunnel of the Regents Canal, London
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The River Irk under Scotland Street, Manchester. A very dark space indeed, reminiscent of Engels's descriptions of the city in the 1840s.
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Druid's Circle, a late Bronze Age stone circle high above Penmaenmawr, North Wales
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Soon to be blown up: the cooling towers of the decommissioned Fiddlers Ferry power station seen from Halton Castle
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Sauntering into Stockport down Hillgate, the town's loveliest street. On a day like today, it's a magnificent vista, right?
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HR Giger in Lambeth: concrete facade of the Oasis Centre on Kennington Road
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13 years living in Manchester and it still takes my breath away on days like this
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A pleasing egg-shaped tunnel on the Peak Forest Canal in Romiley, Stockport
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Is there a building that is more cyberpunk than the Lloyds building?
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First look at the cover of my new book, out in September:
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Completely blown away by the scale of the abandoned Dinorwic slate quarry in North Wales. Here's the former cutting works, located right at the top of the quarry in a windswept and desolate place.
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Part of the 500-metre-long culverted section of the River Mersey under central Stockport
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The almost psychedelic patina of the oldest railway bridge in the world, built over the River Irwell in Manchester in 1830 by Robert Stephenson
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The Norrish Central Library, Portsmouth, designed by Ken Norrish and completed in 1976
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Almost science-fiction scenes in Tunstead limestone quarry today, near Buxton.
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For a few moments this afternoon, Manchester became the golden city
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A hare caught in action near West Dean, West Sussex. What marvellous, unique animals they are.
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The graceful curve of Brighton station, surely the finest of all terminus stations (outside of London?) and one that offers the perfect space for arrivals to and departures from this hedonistic seaside locale.
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I love these medieval floor tiles in Winchester cathedral, particularly their irreplaceable patina of wear and tear - centuries of friction between terracotta and innumerable human feet.
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To remind me that new apartments need not lack sensitivity towards the past: Radium Street, Ancoats
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Wonderful light on the river Irwell this evening, from New Bridge Street, Salford
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Manchester seen from Hobson Moor, with Ashton-under-Lyne in the foreground.
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The Singing Ringing Tree on a hill above Burnley. Completed in 2006 and designed by Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu, the hollow steel pipes hum with the wind.
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Today, my research takes me to inventive uses of scaffolding in architecture, and this quite astonishing tower built by the anti-roads protestors at Claremont Road in east London in 1994. No architect could produce anything as radical as this.
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Juxtaposition of extremes is a characteristic of Manchester, past and present
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Animal Architecture
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, CAT: the cat ladders of Bern. Documented by Brigitte Schuster, these informal scaffold-like structures help felines negotiate the vertical walls of multi-storey apartment buildings. Anarchist architecture for cats. Read more here:
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Today, completely by accident, I discovered this stunning valley in north Wales known as World's End.
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A new painting that's happily occupied me for the last week. It's based on my local landmark: Stockport Viaduct.
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First sighting in the wild at the London Review Bookshop
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Frank Gehry and Jean Nouvel competing for attention on the Hudson River waterfront, Manhattan
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My advance copies of Architecture & Anarchism have arrived and it's looking truly splendid. Here's a preview of a few pages. If you like what you see, order your copy here
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Reflections of Knaresborough being sucked into a weir on the River Nidd.
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Jodrell Bank seemingly floating above Macclesfield - taken from a bitterly cold Tegg's Nose.
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Reflections of the Trafford Road Bridge on a boat trip yesterday evening
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A vast industrial melée on the River Dee near Connah's Quay, Wales
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A giant wisteria suggests an entirely new form of architecture
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City Tower, Manchester, completed in 1965 and here seen from the 10th floor of a car park
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Chorlton Mill and vast quantities of student accommodation beyond: the contrasting textures of a city in the throes of transformation
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Today, I'm writing about bats and architecture. Here's Charles Cambell, chiropteran enthusiast, standing on the monumental bat house he built in San Antonio in 1914. I particularly like the cross on the roof - a nice reference to the long association of bats with the demonic.
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Every surface of the world is actually a deep container of time: Swinton Square, Salford
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Returning north, I stopped at the magnificent concrete melée that is Birmingham's Spaghetti Junction
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After much procrastination, I've now published The Stones of Manchester, which, in 2500 photographs, explores the built environment of Greater Manchester. I'd be hugely grateful for any shares and also feedback on how it works on all the usual devices
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Contrasting approaches to urban planning: 1980s Salford vs present-day Manchester
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