MontyVeda
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That's the whole point. New additions should never blend in with the old.
Buildings and architecture - good and bad
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That's the whole point. New additions should never blend in with the old.
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briantrumpet
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- Devon & Die
Maybe not, but they shouldn't overpower them, and can show a bit more relationship to them than just the shape. I think I'd find it more pleasing if it didn't try to grab the attention with the overhang... just a little bit of modesty would have gone a long way: I think my reaction would have been totally different had it been slightly recessed.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
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- Lancaster... the little city.
To me the big glass structure kind of disappears whilst being totally obvious at the same time. The Exeter one you mentioned just has a big box plonked on top which looks like it was always there when it wasn't, which to me is deceiving.
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briantrumpet
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- Devon & Die
I guess we have different tastes. And that's good. I'd rather dislike a building than just go 'meh' at blandness.
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briantrumpet
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I had a while in a fairly-recently cleaned CdG TGV station with some good light. It's a building I really like.
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briantrumpet
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- Devon & Die
Here's an example - not the best, maybe - of the St Leonard's (Exeter) policy of in-fill buildings being 21st-century reinterpretation of Regency stucco. I'm not sure I like it, but I do like its boldness
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briantrumpet
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- Devon & Die
Gosh - I like this. For sale for a cool £1.4m
https://www.wowhaus.co.uk/2025/05/01/tregannick-1930s-modern-house-in-penzance-cornwall/
https://www.wowhaus.co.uk/2025/05/01/tregannick-1930s-modern-house-in-penzance-cornwall/
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briantrumpet
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- Devon & Die
A nice bit of concrete at Lyon St Exupéry yesterday
bitsandbobs
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Calatrava! Did anything fall off as you walked past?
Badger_Boom
Veteran
- Location
- York
This is the studio at High Sunderland designed by Peter Womersley. Our tastes obviously differ because I'd kill to live in such a property. Sadly I lack the funds, as does the current owner who bought it in the early 2000s to convert into a house but has left it to rot.
Postscript - I've just realised that Mrs B and I used to drive past this when we worked in the Borders back in the 90s. It was in much better nick back then. We're both fans of Womersley's work and always fancied Farnley Hey, near Huddersfield.
Bonefish Blues
Banging donk
- Location
- 52 Festive Road
Now available at a knockdown price:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/148887008#/?channel=RES_BUY
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briantrumpet
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- Devon & Die
I suspect it's a funny market at the moment, where 'quirky' is a hard sell. Even then, that's quite a discount.
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briantrumpet
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- Devon & Die
I didn't get off the train. Is there a backstory then?
Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
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- Craggy Island
I am getting worse at mis - reading things.
I had to do a double take at the thread title as I read
'Bulldogs and architecture'
I had to do a double take at the thread title as I read
'Bulldogs and architecture'
