For those of an architectural bent ....

[Beebo]

Yours for £3.6 million. I wouldnt give you £3.60p for that!

http://www.themodernhouse.net/sales-list/kensington-place/description/

 

[slowmotion]

Duncan Hall at Rice University by John Outram.

More pictures here....
http://www.tboake.com/gallery2/duncan_hall.html

 

[CopperBrompton]

In the olden days they would have used a plumb line......

Let's twist again, like we did last summer ...

My sort of modern

Can never go wrong with art deco :-)

 

[threebikesmcginty]

If you want to see some superb futuristic designs, this book from Taschen is a must, it's a commie concrete overload!

 

[Archie_tect]

If you want to see some superb futuristic designs, this book from Taschen is a must, it's a commie concrete overload!

Also known as Cumbernauld...

 

[tony111]

I sometimes pass this when out & about............

http://themodernhouse.net/sales-list/farnley-hey-farnley-tyas/description-817/

http://www.wowhaus.co.uk/tag/farnley-hey/

Thanks for posting this Richard, I've been by it myself a few times and like where it's been built. Nice to see what the inside looks like.

 

[EltonFrog]

Designed and rushed out after the war to house the bombed out folks these are just wonderful

I spent the first four years of my life in one of those.

 

[Fab Foodie]

It's horrendous; I have cycled past that a few times and every time I see it I think "wtf!"

I like it ....

 

[Fab Foodie]

I spent the first four years of my life in one of those.

My Dad grew up in one and spoke of it fondly ....

 

[Mr Celine]

[QUOTE 3383429, member: 9609"]Thanks for that, I never knew of its history, makes more sense if it was a studio. The kitchen has made me presume it was a house at some point.[/QUOTE]

I actually like Bernat Klein's studio - it reminds me of something out of Captain Scarlet or UFO.

If you want a real Borders eyesore house take a walk on Coldingham Beach. It's been spoilt by this monstrosity, now without scaffolding and up for sale.

 

[slowmotion]

One more from John Outram, a water pumping station on the Isle of Dogs. Imagine if Norman Foster had designed it....a dreary confection of stripped down, grey painted steel and expensive "look at me" "engineering" details probably.

 

[The_Cycling_Scientist]

[QUOTE 3383415, member: 9609"]I found a better picture of it, I have never seen it occupied, It just seems to be so wrong at any level, how much is that going to cost to heat, will you get cooked alive when the sun comes out, and since it is next to a relatively busy road it would just be like living in a goldfish bowl.

[/QUOTE]

You knoW WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN GLASS HOUSES?!

aNY REASON WHY THIS WON'T LET ME TYPE IN LOWER CASE? i FEEL LIKE THIS IS SO ANGRY

 

[slowmotion]

If you want to see some superb futuristic designs, this book from Taschen is a must, it's a commie concrete overload!

That building makes me distinctly nervous.

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[twentysix by twentyfive]

They own theirs (his Mum bought it and lived in it until she died), but the ones around theirs have been demolished and the number of houses squeezed onto each plot now! None of which have any car parking spaces or outdoor gardens where neighbours used to socialise over the garden fence.

Some cycling buddies in Glasgow had one. It was a very pleasant house indeed.

 

[Over The Hill]

Abroad they seem to celebrate modern buildings. We tend to ignore them as with lots of our tube stations-