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After the #Blitz of #WW2, demand for #SocialHousing in Europe, for dislocated families was high. #LeCorbusier focused on communal living & his pioneering approach to large-scale housing produced #UniteDHabitation, completed in 1952. With 1600 residents over 18 floors, he innovatively organised space to integrate private living, utilitarian & communal spaces into one.
In Source: Unité d'Habitation
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Pianist & civil engineering graduate from Lviv, General #RomanShukhevych was a #UkrainianNationalist who led #UkrainianInsurgentArmy partisan troops, Ukrainska Povstanska Armiya #UPA, in a guerrilla war against #Wehrmacht & resist #SovietUnion forces during & after #WW2. Events leading up to his dramatic assassination are told in the Ukrainian film Neskorenyi #TheUndefeated
In Source: Roman Shukhevych Mus.
According to an investigative journalist the #HauntedHouse at 26 Soldiers Division, Galicia St. is derelict. All floors are sealed except the 3rd which can be reached from the railway tracks via a bridge at the rear & is used by railway workers as a workshop. Apparently, the house was built during #WW2 as a control room by the Germans & was used as a mail depot #UkrainianMyths
In Source: Haunted House
Beneath #Odesa lies a vast limestone #Labyrinth, one of the world's largest urban tunnel networks. The #OdesaCatacombs has 3 levels, in part 60m deep & 2500km long - but it is not fully mapped. +90% are thought to be #Coquina stone mines needed to build the city above. Used as #WW2 shelters, lost souls & eerie echoes haunt its hidden chambers - some never return #UkrainianMyths
In Source: Odesa Catacombs
#StoneAge artefacts, #WW2 exhibits & works of #Art were lost when the #IvankivHistoricalandLocalHistoryMuseum was hit by a #RussianMilitaryStrike in Feb 2022. It held a precious 800+ collection of #NaiveArt by #MariiaPrymachenko, a #UkrainianFolkArtist who inspired #Picasso. Only 10 works were saved by a man who entered the museum when it was on fire #UkranianCultureUnderAttack
In Source: Ivankiv History Museum
#LambethPalaceChapel was built c1225, and although rebuilt after being bombed in #WW2, is a fine example of 13th-century #EarlyEnglishGothicArchitecture with a vaulted ceiling and high lancet windows of stained glass. The original 13th-century west doorway survives as does a 17th-century carved wooden screen made for #Archbishop #WilliamLaud.
In Source: Lambeth Palace
#PaternosterSquare was destroyed during the #Blitz in #WW2 & rebuilt as a pedestrian precinct with offices & shops. Redeveloped in the early 1990s it is now the location of the #LondonStockExchange & offices of investment banks such as #GoldmanSachs & #Nomura. In 2004 #ChristopherWren’s renovated #TempleBar was erected as a grand entrance to the square from #LudgateHill.
In Source: Paternoster Square
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Although never directly attacked #NewhavenFort’s long military history includes both #WW1 & #WW2 with #Newhaven acting as a disembarkation point for both the #DieppeRaids & #NormandyLandings. One of the many units based there in #WW2 was the #RAF #AirSeaRescue & the crew created colourful #WarMurals to brighten up an area of the fort that had served as their recreation area.
In Source: Newhaven Fort
The #WW2 #RAF #AirSeaRescue crew stationed at #NewhavenFort, adopted rooms deep within the fort for their recreation area. Following the military tradition of talismanic #WarArt to protect vehicles & crew, the ASR men painted colourful murals on the stark concrete walls using RAF boat paints, to depict undersea scenes, Arabian deserts & the craft that had meaning to them.
In Source: Newhaven Fort
Heaton, Butler & Bayne replaced the #ApseWindows in the 1860s with intricate stained glass. The central window depicted the Crucifixion but this was damaged by a nearby bomb blast during the #LondonBlitz of #WW2. All of the windows were subsequently replaced in 1946 with designs created by #SidneyToy FRIBA. It’s hard to imagine #StMaryLeStrand without its striking blue windows.
In Source: Apse Windows
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At the start of the 20th century, #StMaryLeStrand narrowly escaped destruction on 2 occasions. A major redevelopment scheme by the City Council proposed to demolish the Church to widen the Strand; then the #LondonBlitz of #WW2 destroyed many buildings in the #StrandAldwych area & although the Church suffered some damage from a nearby bomb explosion, it survived.
In Source: The #JewelintheStrand
Memorials to those Wrens who lost their lives at sea during #WW2 on the SS Aguila & SS Khedive are inside the church of #StMaryLeStrand. The ladies of the #AssociationofWrens generously paid for the restoration of the bell tower & gifted the blue kneelers, the carved Paschal candlestick & a green altar frontal. Details of the Wrens annual carol service are listed in 'The Wren.'
In Source: Association of Wrens
Expert restoration of #StMaryLeStrand includes paintings by #MatherBrown & 10 #Nave windows beautifully reglazed with 18CE glass. The blue-glass in the sanctuary dates 1946 & is the work of parish architect #SidneyToy FRIBA who replaced the originals after they were destroyed in #WW2. Yet more work needs to be done to save the #JewelintheStrand
In Source: A New #StMaryLeStrand
Destroyed 17.03.2022 by Russian Military Attack: the Central #HouseOfCulture in #Irpin was built in 1954 by local people at their own expense when #Ukraine was in a period of reconstruction after #WW2. It was an architectural #Monument, cultural #Heritage site & active #Community centre that hosted studios, classes, clubs & events https://ui.org.ua/en/postcard/house-of-culture
In Source: House of Culture
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#AldwychStation opened #StrandStation in 1907, & closed due to low footfall in 1994. Built on the site of the #RoyalStrandTheatre which stood until 1831, it has been used as a #WW2 bomb shelter & for #Art storage. Now a disused part of the #London #Underground it is a #Film location #TheDarkestHour & subject of many unrealised expansion proposals. #StrandAldwych #StrandStories
In Source: Aldwych Station
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Open to visitors & prayer #StClementDanesChurch was 1st built a 1000 years ago by #WilliamTheConqueror & again in the Middle Ages. Destroyed by the Great Fire of #London in 1666, the #Church standing today was completed in 1682 by #Architect Sir #ChristopherWren. Gutted during the #Blitz of #WW2 it was restored by the #RAF & re-consecrated in 1958. #StrandAldwych
In Source: St Clement Danes
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