Cooling Towers: A celebration of sculptural beauty, industrial history and architectural legacy, published by Batsford, London 2025
Featuring Liliane Lijn’s artwork Industrial Landscapes on the front cover and title page for the chapter ‘Culture’. This image is part of Lijn’s 1971 silkscreen series in which the cooling towers are depicted as symbols related to our ‘inner landscape’.
Text by C20 Society (Twentieth Century Society) with a foreword by Antony Gormley, Turner Prize-winning British artist who has long expressed admiration for these immense constructions, and photography from renowned architectural photographers Luke O’Donovan, Michael Collins and James O. Davis of Historic England, this large-format book is a visually exciting and historically significant record of Britain’s twentieth-century industrial legacy.
