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This is Victoria Street in Westminster and that's the Albert Pub (very nice) that I used to walk past every day for ten years (and occasionally pop in for a pint). Three of the four modern buildings in the photo were built over that time, all of them during the last boom and now they're ready to stand empty in the recession.
It's a truly fuckwit world we live in.
4 comments:
I suppose beautiful old brick buildings were torn down to make way for the monsters?
Will there be a time in a hundred years or two when we think of skyscrapers as quaint?
The glass buildings remind me of giant greenhouses or what you'd see at an airport.
That's a good question, Petrea.
Are there adherents to a Shard School of aesthetics? Only this one looks as though it as poles installed for a fence around its top. Another unnecessary bit to keep Peter Rabbit out of the financial lettuce hidden 20-storys up?
Beautiful old brick buildings were bombed to dust to make way for most of London's modern buildings, Petrea. While I was a kid there were empty bombsites everywhere as we were still clawing our way out of post-war austerity. One of my current projects is having to undergo a delicate survey for unexploded wartime ordnance; the daily rain of bombs Europe endured for years made plenty of space for the modern buildings that sit so incongruously in our historic areas.
As for skyscrapers: there are not many buildings in the world more beautiful than the Chrysler Building so I think we can look forward to a lot of "quaint old skyscrapers" littering our cities.
Ms.M it would be a good idea to fill them with plants, as in the current financial climate they're just standing empty.
Speedway, there are all too many.
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