Saturday, June 30, 2007

Architectural Genitalia

After my "Welcome To Hell" post last week from Norwich Castle Mall, Full reminded me about the "Vag Mall" and I said I'd take a couple of photos.

The Vag Mall is one of Mikey's buildings.
The idea was to incorporate the shape of a Viking longship to commemorate the Viking history of the site, but inevitable things got simplified a bit and the recurring motif throughout the mall is now not so much a longship as a vagina.

Hey, ho. It may not be anatomically correct but it is nicely welcoming nonetheless.

It's a shame that it's full of such crap shops when it's so nicely designed, but at least you can get inside out of the rain and wander round looking at vagina shaped openings.
It makes a nice counterpoint to Kate's cock-shaped building in Newy.

11 comments:

Scout said...

Wow. Hang some Georgia O'Keefe florals around the place, and you're all set.

Terroni said...

Quote of the week:

"At least you can get inside out of the rain and wander around looking at vagina shaped openings."

Love it.

dive said...

What more could a man desire on a rainy morning, T?

And Robyn: I love Georgia O'Keefe! And yes, a load of huge prints all over the vag mall would definitely dispel all thoughts of Viking longships.

dive said...

Don't they all?

Vic said...

Oh and there's even a bit of bush there, too!

I loved it until Kate pointed out the teeth.

Anonymous said...

No dive they don't all have teeth and if thats your experience then i'm sending you a manual and some graphic photos to prove we don't all have extra teeth.

dive said...

I did notice the bush, Groover but I was too … er … shy to mention it. Hee hee.

And Kate: I knew I was doing something wrong all these years.
Oh well, what the hell.

Anonymous said...

Starts with meeting a girl called Ming, it can only go downhill with a name like that.

Sassy Sundry said...

Hee hee. That's hilarious. We don't have porno malls around here. Why aren't you more pleased?

dive said...

I AM pleased. My best friend designed it. And not only did he design it to satisfy our need to look at vaginas, but on the 3D fly-through that got repeatedly played on the local news during the planning enquiry he made sure that all the male 3D figures had their cocks out. And nobody noticed!
We Architects are so mature!

Anonymous said...

A vagina with teeth.