Arch enemies
The ‘Euston Arch’ features as a subject in this month’s magazine... ‘Iconic’ is an adjective overused – and maybe misused – nowadays but perhaps it is appropriate for the ‘Euston Arch’, not just in its own right but for what it came to represent in a wider sense. Sixty years have elapsed since anyone saw it risng boldly before them, yet it still stands in spirit as a significant moment in the architectural heritage movement in the early 1960s at a time when ‘out with the old and in with the new’ were the watchwords movers and shakers. And old the Arch certainly was...
