Architecture

[Jack the Sipper]

On 29/12/2021 at 17:27, rb14 said:

Interesting fella that Hawksmoor. I'm going from hazy memory here, but I'm sure he was an understudy to Christopher Wren, a style you can often see reflected in his own work. Proper into the darker side of religion, he had a penchant for doing things like having 13 statue plinths or three sets of six columns (666 - geddit?) or whatever. 

 

I read about it years ago in Peter Ackroyd's decent book "Hawksmoor". Maybe that book was fictional, I don't know, but I've read similar stuff about him elsewhere. 

 

Ackroyd took his inspiration for that book from Iain Sinclair, the London historian and Hawksmoor groupie, particularly his weird prose poem Lud Heat. Sinclair's a believer in psychogeography, basically the belief that the land has a certain spiritual value that manifests itself in the buildings that are placed on it, and in Hawksmoor's case, inspires what people build there. 

 

If you've ever read Alan Moore's graphic novel From Hell, also inspired in part by Sinclair, you'll see plenty of references to Hawksmoor's churches and psychogeography.

[Captain Willard]

A colleague of Mrs Willard invited us over for Sunday tea. It’s not as ostentatious as it looks, the original house is now lots of flats. 

[TheBitch]

On 21/06/2022 at 19:39, Bjornebye said:

Gorgeous mate but you'd be fucked if someone pulled some mushrooms out while you were sat here

 

 

 

I’m fucked now just looking at it and I’m not on mushrooms. 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

[Kepler-186]

This was a promoted tweet. 
 

Shades of Bloc Wars from 2000AD’s Mega City One. 

[Jarvinja Ilnow]

I'm doing the National Lottery so I can build the Anderson-Shepard apartment from Mass Effect. Would need to buy the land in Australia but it would look something like this:

 

 

 

Not living in the neon fun quarter, though.

 

 

 

 

[Rushies tash]

 

Incredible.

[Captain Willard]

The Shambles in York on a December night. Would make a cracking jigsaw puzzle though the cobbled street would be a nightmare. 

[Duff Man]

Nice bit of brutalism popped up in one of my whatsapp groups the other day.

 

[Rushies tash]

3 minutes ago, Duff Man said:

Nice bit of brutalism popped up in one of my whatsapp groups the other day.

 

That's outstanding. Where is it?

[Duff Man]

3 minutes ago, Rushies tash said:

That's outstanding. Where is it?

 

Russia, according to my man in the chat. It's the Chuvash State Opera and Ballet Theater

[VladimirIlyich]

8 hours ago, Duff Man said:

Nice bit of brutalism popped up in one of my whatsapp groups the other day.

 

Looks like a prison.

[Captain Willard]

This is up for sale. Very close to my office so I could walk to work. Looks like it needs a lot of work but it would be brilliant in the end. Unfortunately mrs Willard won’t agree. 
 

[Chocoholic]

Great architecture is about the smaller practical things, too...

 

 

[Kepler-186]

Article and critique on McMansions and housing policy in the States. 
 

https://thebaffler.com/outbursts/bad-manors-wagner?utm_medium=email&utm_source=pocket_hits&utm_campaign=POCKET_HITS-EN-DAILY-SPONSORED&HUNGRYROOT-2023_05_12=&sponsored=0&position=3&scheduled_corpus_item_id=bfba359b-92d8-4922-8a19-b754ee25e7bd

 

 

[Gnasher]

Wouldn't need reminding to hang the washing out.

 

 

 

 

A lifespan of 12 years before meeting the bulldozer.

[A Red]

8 minutes ago, Gnasher said:

Wouldn't need reminding to hang the washing out.

 

 

 

 

A lifespan of 12 years before meeting the bulldozer.

That is fucking depressing. I looked but couldn't find for the picture of inmates in the old colonial prison that could only see forward.

 

The round windows were to make it look "modern"

[VladimirIlyich]

8 hours ago, Gnasher said:

Wouldn't need reminding to hang the washing out.

 

 

 

 

A lifespan of 12 years before meeting the bulldozer.

It was a grim place. I used to walk through it most days on my way or back from senior school. My Uncle lived there,briefly. The landings were strewn with dog shit and the balconies between houses could be easily stepped over,which was ideal for your local crack head to steal your telly and Video Recorder to sell in the pub before you know it's even gone! An absolute shite hole of a place,and as for Southgate!

[redinblack]

5 hours ago, VladimirIlyich said:

It was a grim place. I used to walk through it most days on my way or back from senior school. My Uncle lived there,briefly. The landings were strewn with dog shit and the balconies between houses could be easily stepped over,which was ideal for your local crack head to steal your telly and Video Recorder to sell in the pub before you know it's even gone! An absolute shite hole of a place,and as for Southgate!

The Merry Monk was the one on Southgate. It wasnt merry as I remember.

 

The architect who designed Southgate got an award for it. He should have been shot.

[Strontium]

5 hours ago, VladimirIlyich said:

It was a grim place. I used to walk through it most days on my way or back from senior school. My Uncle lived there,briefly. The landings were strewn with dog shit and the balconies between houses could be easily stepped over,which was ideal for your local crack head to steal your telly and Video Recorder to sell in the pub before you know it's even gone! An absolute shite hole of a place,and as for Southgate!

 

Sounds like it was less a problem with the place, and more a probem with the people.

[polymerpunkah]

On 05/12/2022 at 13:09, Duff Man said:

Nice bit of brutalism popped up in one of my whatsapp groups the other day.

 

 

Puts me in mind of a grain elevator: