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Cooling Towers: A celebration of sculptural beauty, industrial history and architectural legacy

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Cooling Towers: A celebration of sculptural beauty, industrial history and architectural legacyA stirring celebration of cooling towers, the monumental brutalist structures dotted around the Britain landscape that are relics of twentieth century industrial history and are about to disappear for good. Bringing together some of the countrys most distinguished architectural photographers and writers, Cooling Towers is an elegiac exploration of these imposing buildings, forming a definitive visual record of Britains coal fired power stations at the

A stirring celebration of cooling towers, the monumental brutalist structures dotted around the Britain landscape that are relics of twentieth-century industrial history – and are about to disappear for good.

Bringing together some of the country’s most distinguished architectural photographers and writers, Cooling Towers is an elegiac exploration of these imposing buildings, forming a definitive visual record of Britain’s coal-fired power stations at the moment that they disappear into history, as most of them have been slated for demolition very soon. The book’s focus is on the unique and sculptural presence of cooling towers within the landscape, always an unforgettable sight. Essays include:

• Hugh Pearman on Drax Power Station in North Yorkshire, still standing but not for long.

• Otto Saumaurez Smith on the recently demolished, particularly beautiful set of cooling towers that formed part of Ironbridge B Power Station.

• Luca Csepely-Knorr and Richard Brook on the landscape and setting of post-war power stations.

• Poetry by Patrick McGuinness on the falling towers at Didcot.

With a celebratory foreword by Sir Antony Gormley, Turner Prize-winning British artist who has long expressed admiration for these immense constructions, and photography from renowned architectural photographers Eric de Maré, Bill Brandt, Michael Kenna, Luke O'Donovan, and James O. Davis of Historic England, this book is a visually exciting and historically significant record of Britain's twentieth-century industrial legacy.

Dimensions: 406 x 311 mm
Extent: 128 Pages, hardback
Publication: Batsford Books, 11 September 2025
ISBN: 9781849949460

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