Architecture and the Face of Coal: Mining and Modern Britain the modernist building hundreds of towers

building hundreds of towers

Six of Womersley's buildings in Scotland are now listed

Exclusive to the Isokon Gallery

Ben Tosland examines Godwin and Hopwood's form of tropical modernism and illuminates its contemporary meanings

the early modern movement country house now open to the public by the National Trust

Architecture and the Face of Coal: Mining and Modern Britain the modernist building hundreds of towersHardback, 288 pages By Gary Boyd With only a handful of British coalmines remaining active and with targets set to reduce carbon emissions, the coal industry now seems to be heading towards extinction. Yet, it was coal that turned Britain into a world leader during the Industrial Revolution and established the conditions for the modern state. In the 20th century, it generated building programmes on a massive scale concerning miners welfare,