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Cast iron’s hidden histories
Bracket in Clifton arcade, Bristol Bracket in a shelter on Clarence Esplanade, Portsmouth Victorian decorative cast iron represents an important and relatively early example of mechanically reproduced...
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Civic space? The Barton arcade, Manchester
1: Barton arcade from St Anne's Square Walter Benjamin recognized in the first arcades of Paris – built at the turn of the 19th century – the beginnings of iron construction that would culminate in the...
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Arcadian dreams in Paris
1. Galerie Vivienne Entering any one of the seventeen surviving arcades in Paris is like stepping into an alternative world, one cut off from the noise and bustle of the metropolitan street – a space...
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Meta-ornament: railway tracks
Tracks on the southern approach to Manchester from Stockport According to Walter Benjamin, railway tracks had a ‘peculiar and unmistakeable dream world’ attached to them, one that, for early railway...
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Dream spaces: railway stations and the beyond
The curving roof of York station’s train shed From their beginning, railway stations were often perceived as having a dream-like quality. For some – particularly early travellers - the station was like...
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