I think I've made a horlicks of the thread title, but bear with me.....
I'm inviting you to post pictures of streets or buildings, or even parts of buildings that are not big name showstoppers, but, nonetheless have charm or individuality or a particular meaning. Ideally these would be round the corner from where you live. The idea is to bring stuff that wouldn't normally be noticed to people's attention.
There's no better way of explaining this than to give a couple of examples. The first is one of the entrances to the Reliance Arcade on Electric Lane in Brixton, which, for all it's modest size, has a certain Egyptian pizzazz about it...
...which I think goes to show that no job is too small to take pride in
the second is what is now the Clapham Youth Centre which is round the back of Brixton Prison. What I like about this is the efficiency of the building, particularly the felted roof, which hasn't compromised the obvious intention of the designer to flood what is a small hall with light. Somewhere or other I've got a postwar textbook describing precisely how this kind of roof should be made, but I'm afraid that modern regulations would add a foot or so the the thickness of the roof.
away you go.............
I'm inviting you to post pictures of streets or buildings, or even parts of buildings that are not big name showstoppers, but, nonetheless have charm or individuality or a particular meaning. Ideally these would be round the corner from where you live. The idea is to bring stuff that wouldn't normally be noticed to people's attention.
There's no better way of explaining this than to give a couple of examples. The first is one of the entrances to the Reliance Arcade on Electric Lane in Brixton, which, for all it's modest size, has a certain Egyptian pizzazz about it...
...which I think goes to show that no job is too small to take pride in
the second is what is now the Clapham Youth Centre which is round the back of Brixton Prison. What I like about this is the efficiency of the building, particularly the felted roof, which hasn't compromised the obvious intention of the designer to flood what is a small hall with light. Somewhere or other I've got a postwar textbook describing precisely how this kind of roof should be made, but I'm afraid that modern regulations would add a foot or so the the thickness of the roof.
away you go.............
