Tony Chambers: the magazine editor’s transformative journey from a Liverpool terrace to the Barbican penthouse of his dreams
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The Beginning of Architecture
All our friends hated it. On the outside, yeah. Well again, to visit. But presumably people said that they, oh, it looks like council. Totally. It's a very lucky from that perspective. So it was unfashionable then and therefore far more affordable. I saw such a parallel between the methodology and the structure and restrictions in a good way of graphic design and typography. The same architecture was like a 3D version of a grid. A very beautiful modernist typographic grid was like a modernist building. And yeah. It was just that was the philosophy and style of design. That was my thing. We've got an amazing top light coming over us.
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