'Big shed' was once a derogatory term, applied to out of town superstores and non-descript industrial parks where cost-effective modernism resulted in buildings that were blank, boring and internationally ubiquitous.
Will Pryce, an architecturally-trained photographer, sets out to equate scale with quality, travelling the world in search of the most architecturally and structurally ambitious megastructures. Today's stations, stadiums, airports and auditoriums all appear hell-bent on supersizing themselves, and the slightly jarring presence of a 'fantasy tropical holiday resort' within the monumental former Cargolifter hangar in Germany shows that unbounded space lends itself well to other uses.
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Big Shed by Will Pryce (Thames & Hudson, £32)
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