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10/23/13

Owen Luder and Cyprien Gaillard


"Well, the matter is that all the buildings I like will be destroyed in Europe in the next ten years. I just got back, for example, from Newcastle where I was part of a show at Baltic, I stayed three days in the city, and spent my days riding my bicycle all around its suburbs. Two of the greatest buildings of the city both designed by the brutalist architect Owen Luder are about to be demolished. In January, I was in Glasgow (the city that holds more than 50 percent of all the high-rise estates of the U.K.), to film the demolition of the tower block that was featured in Jonathan Glaser's add for Sony. The scenario is always the same--in the next five years the Glasgow Housing Association will demolish half of these buildings in order "to change the skyline of the city" to use their words." source: http://www.moussemagazine.it/articolo.mm?id=60