Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
The Spirit of Trade Unionism by Bernard Meadows
TUC HQ designed by David Du Roi Aberdeen with Bernard Meadows' sculpture The Spirit of Trade Unionism Pic: Paul the Archivist/Creative Commons
ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
The Star's critics ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA reviews I Am Love, The Penguin Lessons, Freaky Tales, The Thicket
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
Peter Mitchell's photography reveals a poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
THE BUILDING of the TUC's new headquarters Congress House in Holborn, which opened in 1958, was also seen as an opportunity to promote interest in the arts and architecture.
A design competition for the new building was launched in 1946 — the first of its kind in the post war period — and over 180 projects were submitted, from which David Du Roi Aberdeen’s modernist proposal was selected.
The TUC’s aspiration to promote the arts was amply vindicated when, in 1988, the building was Grade-II listed by Historic England. It’s considered to be one of the most important buildings housing an institution in London and a 1950s’ architectural landmark.
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