For those of an architectural bent ....

[Archie_tect]

On the market - offers over £2.8m. The last great country house in England, and almost the first modernist house in England.
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property...allery.html?propertyId=32179839&photoIndex=9#
http://www.wowhaus.co.uk/2014/09/04...-modernist-house-in-amersham-buckinghamshire/

Nearly 2 acres of grounds, and within half a mile of the Underground. What's not to love?

That's a complete mess- not the first idea about proportion or what the modern movement was about.

Concrete is a fluid material that depends on it's shuttering for it's final appearance- it should taper and be refined - look at those blunt square blocks to the roof terrace.

The modern movement building relies on a frame freeing the walls and windows allowing roofs to float above them.

 

[Beebo]

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You can rent it out as a holiday home via the landmark trust.
I'm a member but havent stayed there yet.

 

[User6179]

Perhaps the ugliest building I have ever cycled 35 mile to see , I just don't get it.

Edit - is the Edinburgh bus station btw

 

[Beebo]

What's not to love?

The price?

 

[User6179]

You can rent it out as a holiday home via the landmark trust.
I'm a member but havent stayed there yet.

It is a thing of beauty

 

[Archie_tect]

Did you go inside Eddy?

 

[User6179]

[QUOTE 3391602, member: 9609"]It is utterly hideous, this was it on the day I cycled past! this is our parliment - eyesore

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Is like a Bus station that has been attacked by the Zulu tribe .

 

[srw]

That's a complete mess- not the first idea about proportion or what the modern movement was about.

Concrete is a fluid material that depends on it's shuttering for it's final appearance- it should taper and be refined - look at those blunt square blocks to the roof terrace.

The modern movement building relies on a frame freeing the walls and windows allowing roofs to float above them.

A bit like the blunt square blocks on the Trellick Tower?

High and Over is contemporary with some of Le Corbusier's earliest buildings of a similar size, so it defines modernism.

 

[User6179]

Did you go inside Eddy?

No , is local to me , am mid run when I pass it.

 

[Archie_tect]

A bit like the blunt square blocks on the Trellick Tower?

High and Over is contemporary with some of Le Corbusier's earliest buildings of a similar size, so it defines modernism.

The brutalism of The Trellick Tower isn't something to be proud of, neither is the South Bank for the same reason.

High and Over was built in the early part of the 20th century and it's painted white... that's about it.
A building should sit within the landscape and make the place better than it was before, it isn't just dropped there like an empty shoe-box on a rug.

Proportion, the Golden Section..... 'firmness, commodity and delight' are important... how to set windows in an elevation- balance isn't symmetry.

Look at Corb's work at the Villa Savoye, Ronchamps, and the Bauhaus... leading to the minimalism of Mies van der Rohe at the Barcelona Pavillion.

 

[slowmotion]

On the market - offers over £2.8m. The last great country house in England, and almost the first modernist house in England.
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property...allery.html?propertyId=32179839&photoIndex=9#
http://www.wowhaus.co.uk/2014/09/04...-modernist-house-in-amersham-buckinghamshire/

Nearly 2 acres of grounds, and within half a mile of the Underground. What's not to love?

It looks like an aerial reconnaissance photo taken by the Luftwaffe after an air raid.

 

[User6179]

It looks like an aerial reconnaissance photo taken by the Luftwaffe after an air raid.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law

 

[Archie_tect]

...or an early aerial shot of the airfield at Biggin Hill.

 

[vernon]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law

Close but no cigar.

 

[slowmotion]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law

I believe that the Luftwaffe were, by and large, honourable men.
Godwin's Law doesn't apply. As you were.....carry on....