Examples of enduring good design?

[Rhythm Thief]

Old design though. I'd have been more interested to see what they'd have come up with if they'd actually built a modern steam loco. Although I bet it wouldn't have been as good.

 

[Stephenite]

Breasts would surely fulfill the necessary criteria. Form and function, and they come in pairs!

(Gratuitous repeat)

Can you provide some more photos to help me make up my mind

You'll find what you're looking for at www.free6.com

 

[Globalti]

I thought that was the whole idea? They took the best, most recent design, improved it slightly with modern technology and safety equipment and that was all they had to do.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

I thought that was the whole idea? They took the best, most recent design, improved it slightly with modern technology and safety equipment and that was all they had to do.

?? ... oh, you're not talking about breasts.

My mistake, in that case. I thought they'd built an A1 to the original blueprints with no modifications at all.

 

[Andy in Sig]

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A bit like this one, Andy?

That's it! Except mine's the black model. How on earth did you manage that? I take my hat off to you in a spirit of great humility.

 

[rich p]

That's it! Except mine's the black model. How on earth did you manage that? I take my hat off to you in a spirit of great humility.

I'm no expert on these things but I right clicked on your red cross image and copied the url into the address line to get the image from google, then re-pasted it into the mountain icon Aperitif mentioned earlier.

 

[swee'pea99]

Stove top coffee pots don't mean a thing if they ain't got that little feller:

 

[dellzeqq]

I cling to the idea that there is something more to design than the everyday. The thing (or space) has to do what you ask of it, it has to last a while, and it must not be wasteful (which rather knocks Mies 1929 Barcelona pavilion, and its inheritors out of the running). It should also say something about the capabilities and desires of the time, and it should, for my money, embody some kind of craft - bear the memory of the hand that made it. It gets extra points, in my book, for invoking some kind of common cultural aspiration - provided that aspiration doesn't involve going off and killing people in large numbers.

The semi-detatched house does that - although the price of fuel is finding them out, they steal all kinds of imagery from the past and make it their own - not least the illustion that it's surrounded by nature. The semi is a snapshot of a country trying to make a new Jerusalem.


As for the big stuff - you might not have seen this, but, if you get the chance, change trains at Westminster....

and if you go to Paris - check this out

 

[Andy in Sig]

I'm no expert on these things but I right clicked on your red cross image and copied the url into the address line to get the image from google, then re-pasted it into the mountain icon Aperitif mentioned earlier.

That's what I thought I'd done. I may have been born 100 years to late.

 

[CopperBrompton]

One of the more enduring classics, though the design was diluted after the 964:

And a design that looked as modern on the day she retired as she did on the day she first flew:

This design is only 10 years old, but I reckon it'll become a classic:

 

[CopperBrompton]

WTF is it with the announcements? First of all I would like to welcome customers who might have joined the service at Port Talbot Parkway? FFS. And we all know what buffets sell.

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[mistral]

I've had one of these in constant use for almost 20 years

 

[TheDoctor]

and if you go to Paris - check this out

Where is that, Dell? It looks somewhat familiar, so I may have seen it through the bottom of a glass at some point...

Edit - Hang on. It's not a brasserie, is it? I thought it was...

 

[swee'pea99]

This design is only 10 years old, but I reckon it'll become a classic:

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That is one ugly MF...

 

[Flying_Monkey]

As for the big stuff - you might not have seen this, but, if you get the chance, change trains at Westminster....

after the build-up, I was expecting something genuinely beautiful and functional, but you give us the nearest equivalent to the Death Star in Britain!

Massive, oppressive, rather fascistic architecture in grey, grey and more grey. It's a space that is seemingly designed to make you feel like buckling under the new surveillance regime, which of course is in your pictures invisible but in reality is utterly unavoidable and an integral part of the design that keeps 'the masses' away from 'the masters'.

And it's the total opposite of the airy bourgeois liberalism of the Parisian example.

If nothing else dell, I expect you to have taste, and I know you're still loyal to Labour, but the apparent subservience of your aesthetic to New Labour paranoia is most disturbing!