This ‘Spot the Building’ competition from 1970 inspired us to create a new one for 2013
Building magazine is celebrating our 170th year anniversary and each week we’re finding gems from our archive to mark the occasion.
This competition from an issue we published in 1970 inspired us to run a similar version for 2013 this week.
Here’s the original we ran - can you guess any of them right? Answers are below!
To take part in the competition we’ve created for this week - and for a chance to win £50 in John Lewis vouchers - click here
From Building, 25 December 1970:
‘Shaping up to the 70’s’
The illustration is made up of 10 buildings that have appeared in Building during the last year. Can you spot them?
Answers:
- Concrete chimney, part of the cargo area boiler house, Heathrow airport
- Part of the 300ft, high tower block at the Household Cavalry barracks in London’s Hyde Park
- Library and social centre, Ewell
- Control tower at the Fire Service technical college
- Concrete ramp in the Penguin Pool at London Zoo
- Mathematics building at the University of Manchester
- Exhibition hall at Carmel College
- Eleanor Rathbone home for elderly people
- Part of St Mary’s church in Red Deer, Alberta
- Shafts of the LEB substation at the Barbican development, London
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