Buildings and architecture - good and bad

[briantrumpet]

Thanks to friends real and virtual, I seem to have developed a very amateur interest and taste in buildings and architecture. As I've not been able to find a thread elsewhere on CC, I thought it might be nice to share thoughts about buildings we like and dislike, and try to explain why. Photos will be helpful!

Offices, shops, hospitals, blocks of flats, houses, churches... anything goes.

Here's my first one... a nice row of shops in Magdalen Road, Exeter. Nice mixture of brick types, a mixture of individual and co-ordinated designs, held together with sticky-outy windows (see, I know all the technical terms). Very pleasing.

In due course I'll be making sure to take pictures of buildings I dislike too (and hope that they haven't been designed by someone I know...)

 

[Sharky]

This thread might interest you...
Thread 'How about some Art Deco...' https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/how-about-some-art-deco.287027/

 

[Accy cyclist]

This thread might interest you...
Thread 'How about some Art Deco...' https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/how-about-some-art-deco.287027/

I haven't seen that thread before. Thanks for linking it!

 

[Dogtrousers]

Worth a read ... https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/whats-your-favourite-bit-of-brutalist-architecture.173550/

 

[briantrumpet]

Gosh, not exactly what I think of when I hear 'tenement blocks'. All in Lambeth. I like the quirkiness of the third one.

https://bsky.app/profile/municipaldreams.bsky.social/post/3lkxh3r4gx222

 

[briantrumpet]

The linked article is well worth reading

https://municipaldreams.substack.com/p/lambeths-interwar-tenements-the-necessity?r=kwvek

@rjsterry

 

[rjsterry]

Yes, I'm a fan of Municipal Dreams. My favourite interwar blocks are the flats designed by Lutyens (I think for the Duke of Westminster) on Page Street in Pimlico. They're almost a sort of proto-post-modernism.

Page Street

 

[briantrumpet]

Yes, I'm a fan of Municipal Dreams. My favourite interwar blocks are the flats designed by Lutyens (I think for the Duke of Westminster) on Page Street in Pimlico. They're almost a sort of proto-post-modernism.
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Page Street

Thanks RJS. I like them. Obviously a big part in their impact now is that they have been maintained well (ditto the 'quirky' building I noted). But it starts with having an identifiable style and making a bit of a statement with it, even it's an, er, understated style (i.e. not just bland).

 

[VinSumRox]

This defunct artists studio near Selkirk is either an eyesore or an important piece of architecture. Personally I'm in the eyesore group😆

 

[briantrumpet]

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This defunct artists studio near Selkirk is either an eyesore or an important piece of architecture. Personally I'm in the eyesore group😆

Not one to own if you walk around without many (or any) clothes on from time to time. Well, unless you want people to see.

 

[VinSumRox]

Not one to own if you walk around without many (or any) clothes on from time to time. Well, unless you want people to see.

I know it's been empty for ages, not sure what else it could be used for!

 

[slowmotion]

I know it's been empty for ages, not sure what else it could be used for!

Cultivating weed?

 

[VinSumRox]

Cultivating weed?

Plenty of light to grow it, bit obvious to anybody passing though 😆

 

[briantrumpet]

Now to Toronto, and I don't like this updating at all, especially in comparison with how the Art Deco one in Exeter was done. I think it's the overhang which spoils it... well, amongst other things. The only connection with the building below it is the shape.

https://www.azuremagazine.com/article/2-queen-street-west-era-zeidler-heritage-preservation/

 

[Alex H]

Cultivating weed?

Plenty in the garden already.