Why contribute to the spread of ugliness?

Bevat : -England and the octopus, Britain and the beast.Video of areas of Snowdonia National Park, Blaenau Ffestiniog and Portmeirion, scrpited with extracts from books that were written or edited by Clough Williams-Ellis, the architect of Portmeirion and a polemicist for the preservation of 'natural beauty'.
- 15 of 487 uncatalogued boxes. 487 boxes of archival material that spanned the career of the prominent post-war British architect John Madin were deposited with Birmingham Central Library in 2004. The library, one of Madin's largest and most prestigious projects is due to be demolished in 2013. The archive remains uncatalogued.
Photographs document fifteen of these archive boxes, material that is contained within them, and places that are referenced within the archive. Some of these document buildings desgined by Madin's practice, others show buildings and locations which are referenced as informing Madin's work.