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On this day: 22 April 1980
Architectural photographer Sam Lambert’s death was marked by the publication of this image of George’s Dock Ventilation Building in Liverpool
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In its 22 April 1980 issue, the AJ printed a double-page spread of work by architectural photographer and former AJ news editor Sam Lambert following his death, aged 54. Lambert’s photographs appeared in the AJ and The Architectural Review and he also worked with the Architectural Association, the British Travel and Holidays Association and many architectural practices – eventually in colour!
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This image is, unusually, of the unfenestrated side of the George’s Dock Ventilation Building taken from across a streetscape that is much changed today. Designed by Herbert Rowse, chief architect of the Queensway tunnel (which runs 2.1 miles under the Mersey between Liverpool and Birkenhead), and completed in 1934 (later renovated in 1952), it is the most ambitious of the six bui