蜜芽传媒

Jonathan Foyle outlines the way the great civic buildings of Victorian northern England were instrumental in creating a blueprint for the world鈥檚 industrial cities. The formally elegant neo-classical buildings of the early industrial age were gradually supplanted by new public buildings in a style that harked back to Britain鈥檚 own medieval past - gothic became the mid-nineteenth century鈥檚 civic style of choice, encapsulating freedom and versatility.