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The tower in fiction, film and life

The high-rise estates born of postwar idealism soon became symbols of crime and squalor. But after one terrible tragedy, public bodies are being forced to rethink our towers.

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Dark Matter responds to ‘Epidemic threats and racist legacies’

Animated-collage artist Dark Matter brings his unique combination of live footage and archive imagery to respond to a text suggesting that the field of epidemiology emerged in the 19th century imbued with the doctrine of Western imperialism.

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Inside the mind of Living with Buildings curator, Emily Sargent

Curator Emily Sargent reveals why council estates and a Finnish TB sanatorium were chosen for the ‘Living with Buildings’ exhibition.

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Titans in the landscape

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  • Magdalen College, Oxford. Showing the Founder's Towers.
  • Goliath, covered in splendid armour, towers over the humble David. Engraving.
  • Burma: a sanctuary (?) with towers, temples, musicians and dancers. Gouache painting.
  • Cairo, Egypt: Mameluk tombs with decorative towers. Photograph by Pascal Sébah, ca. 1870.
  • Chemistry: various vessels, including cracking towers. Engraving by A.J. Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
  • Antioch, Turkey: towers of a ruined castle, with a fortified wall. Engraving by M. Picquenot after L.F. Cassas.
  • Above, a temple with a furnace; below, emaciated bodies lying at the top of two towers with vultures feeding on the carrion. Engraving.
  • The twin towers of a church wearing condoms with the message that AIDS is not God's punishment; an advertisement for safe sex to prevent AIDS. Colour lithograph by Klaus Staeck, 1987.
  • A woman having her extremely high wig (which towers over her head in an oval form and is flanked by parallel horizontal curls) dressed with curling tongs by a French hair-dresser on a step-ladder; the woman's husband looks on through a small telescope. Engraving, c. 1771.
  • A woman having her extremely high wig (which towers over her head in an oval form and is flanked by parallel horizontal curls) dressed with curling tongs by a French hair-dresser on a step-ladder; the woman's husband looks on through a small telescope. Engraving, c. 1771.
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