π¬π§ (mainly) British Architecture & Art. All photography is my own πΈ
London, England
Joined June 2014
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Happy birthday, Alfred Waterhouse.
July 19, 1830 in Liverpool, UK.
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100% new. A gift to London. Just unwrapped.
(Note how the windows are elegantly part O compliant, a luxury increasingly impossible for buildings in non-high value areas)
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In few places is it more clear that the past is a foreign country, and England a very different country than the one it once was, than on the Late Victorian streets of London.
I love these buildings.
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I donβt understand why modern buildings like the one on the right arenβt standard?
Buildings like Marylebone Place should be given automatic planning permission.
Compare it with new Battersea flatsβ¦ π€’
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Requesting a βbrutalism is actually goodβ photo dump that isnβt just completely leaning on good foliage
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If youβre interested in the scientific side of it Iβd greatly recommend looking at Nikos Salingarosβ interviews, books, etc. He explains from a physicistβs perspective why contemporary architecture is so unnatural and ugly. youtu.be/rZzpqax9gCk?si=L6syβ¦
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"Our need for biophilic forms is mathematically confirmed in fractal geometry. It is defined as 'self-similarity in geometric structures at hierarchical scales.' Classical architecture uses these forms intuitively. Modernist architecture does not."
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A YIMBY creator vs a NIMBY creator.
Peopleβs tolerance levels to anything increase when you take ugliness out of the equation. This also goes for tall buildings next door.
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I see that Angela Rayner has given the all-clear for the demolition of this Art Deco gem on Oxford Street, and for it to be replaced with this monstrous 1970s multi-storey car-park-looking thing. They call it βprogressβ. Perhaps I was born in the wrong century.
