Modernism

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Past Event: Turn End and Middle Turn Open Day
May
25
2:00 pm14:00

Past Event: Turn End and Middle Turn Open Day

A very special opportunity to visit 2 houses on the Turn End estate. Turn End and Middle Turn have a similar plan around a courtyard garden and the same simple and honest use of materials with quarry tiled floor, exposed timber beams and white painted blockwork, but they all enable much personal creativity and individual expression by the occupants in terms of decoration and use of the living spaces. Explore Turn End's own Grade II listed garden and visit the studio of Artist in Residence Heather Hunter, located on the Turn End estate. Teas and homemade cakes. Books and home-grown plants for sale.

£25 (Friends: free, Students with ID card: £20, 5-16 years: £5.00, Under 5s: free)

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Past Event: Turn End and Middle Turn Open Day
Aug
25
2:00 pm14:00

Past Event: Turn End and Middle Turn Open Day

A very special opportunity to visit 2 houses on the Turn End estate. Turn End and Middle Turn have a similar plan around a courtyard garden and the same simple and honest use of materials with quarry tiled floor, exposed timber beams and white painted blockwork, but they all enable much personal creativity and individual expression by the occupants in terms of decoration and use of the living spaces. Explore Turn End's own Grade II listed garden and visit the studio of Artist in Residence Heather Hunter, located on the Turn End estate. Teas and homemade cakes. Books and home-grown plants for sale.

£25 (Friends: free, Students with ID card: £20, 5-16 years: £5.00, Under 5s: free)

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Past Event: Turn End and Middle Turn Open Day
May
26
2:00 pm14:00

Past Event: Turn End and Middle Turn Open Day

A very special opportunity to visit 2 houses on the Turn End estate. Turn End and Middle Turn have a similar plan around a courtyard garden and the same simple and honest use of materials with quarry tiled floor, exposed timber beams and white painted blockwork, but they all enable much personal creativity and individual expression by the occupants in terms of decoration and use of the living spaces. Explore Turn End's own Grade II listed garden and visit the studio of Artist in Residence Heather Hunter, located on the Turn End estate. Teas and homemade cakes. Books and home-grown plants for sale.

£20 (Friends: free, Students with ID card: £15, 5-16 years: £5.00, Under 5s: free)

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Past Online Talk: Nice Modern: A Different View of the Twentieth  Century, written and presented by Alan Powers
May
15
7:00 pm19:00

Past Online Talk: Nice Modern: A Different View of the Twentieth Century, written and presented by Alan Powers

Join us for our online talk, ‘A Different View of the Twentieth Century, written and presented by Alan Powers, Patron of Turn End Trust.

After many years studying how the history of twentieth century architecture has been constructed, Alan Powers realised that it would benefit from a figure-ground reversal, in which what was previously seen as of primary importance – the aesthetically and technically innovative and visually striking – could become the background, while the foreground is taken by work that took the idea of Modernism in more gradual and adaptive ways, especially in the period 1935-1965 when there was a generational turn in favour of local character, often referred to as Critical Regionalism, a term that is, however, rather self-contradictory and opaque. After looking at a shelf of books about Brutalism in a bookshop, Alan realised that the title he wanted was 'Nice Modern', as it neatly characterises the alternatives, whatever their strengths and qualities, as 'not nice'. Given that 'nice' is usually a term of abuse in architectural circles, this is itself a provocation. Further justification can be found in the fact that a large proportion of new architecture in the past 20 years has revisited aspects of 'Nice Modern', demonstrating that it was not the backwater that historians have usually imagined.

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Past Event: Turn End and Middle Turn Open Day
Aug
28
2:00 pm14:00

Past Event: Turn End and Middle Turn Open Day

A very special opportunity to visit 2 houses on the Turn End estate. Turn End and Middle Turn have a similar plan around a courtyard garden and the same simple and honest use of materials with quarry tiled floor, exposed timber beams and white painted blockwork, but they all enable much personal creativity and individual expression by the occupants in terms of decoration and use of the living spaces. Explore Turn End's own Grade II listed garden and visit the studio of Artist in Residence Heather Hunter, located on the Turn End estate. Teas and homemade cakes. Books and home-grown plants for sale.

£20 (Friends: free, Students with ID card: £15, 5-16 years: £5.00, Under 5s: free)

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Past Event: SOLD OUT: Turn End and Middle Turn Open Day
May
28
2:00 pm14:00

Past Event: SOLD OUT: Turn End and Middle Turn Open Day

SORRY, THIS EVENT HAS SOLD OUT. Please sign up to the WAITLIST

A very special opportunity to visit 2 houses on the Turn End estate. Turn End and Middle Turn have a similar plan around a courtyard garden and the same simple and honest use of materials with quarry tiled floor, exposed timber beams and white painted blockwork, but they all enable much personal creativity and individual expression by the occupants in terms of decoration and use of the living spaces. Explore Turn End's own Grade II listed garden and visit the studio of Artist in Residence Heather Hunter, located on the Turn End estate. Teas and homemade cakes. Books and home-grown plants for sale.

£20 (Friends: free, Students with ID card: £15, 5-16 years: £5.00, Under 5s: free)

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Past Event: Turn End and Middle Turn Open Day
Aug
29
2:00 pm14:00

Past Event: Turn End and Middle Turn Open Day

SOLD OUT

A very special opportunity to visit 2 houses on the Turn End estate. Turn End and Middle Turn have a similar plan around a courtyard garden and the same simple and honest use of materials with quarry tiled floor, exposed timber beams and white painted blockwork, but they all enable much personal creativity and individual expression by the occupants in terms of decoration and use of the living spaces. Explore Turn End's own Grade II listed garden and visit the studio of Artist in Residence Heather Hunter, located on the Turn End estate. Teas and homemade cakes. Books and home-grown plants for sale.

£20 (Friends: free, Students with ID card: £15, 5-16 years: £5.00, Under 5s: free)

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Past Event: Turn End and Middle Turn Open Day
May
8
2:00 pm14:00

Past Event: Turn End and Middle Turn Open Day

SOLD OUT. Please visit us on Bank Holiday Monday, 29th August 2022.

A very special opportunity to visit 2 houses on the Turn End estate. Turn End and Middle Turn have a similar plan around a courtyard garden and the same simple and honest use of materials with quarry tiled floor, exposed timber beams and white painted blockwork, but they all enable much personal creativity and individual expression by the occupants in terms of decoration and use of the living spaces. Explore Turn End's own Grade II listed garden and visit the studio of Artist in Residence Heather Hunter, located on the Turn End estate. Teas and homemade cakes. Books and home-grown plants for sale.

£20 (Friends: free, Students with ID card: £15, 5-16 years: £5.00, Under 5s: free)

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