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Elfin's Tuesday Architectural Appreciation thread!! This week- Public Buildings
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That brings back memories Bregante, I did 8 Months at Leeds (Armley) Prison back in 1995.
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Doing a refurb of A Wing, not a prisoner!Posted 1 year ago # -
I think I confused "publicly owned" with "publicly used". Or should that be "yer" publicly used "innit"?
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Hadn't considered prisons, nice work Bregante!
The Scrubs:
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Some listed 60's concrete - well i like it.
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Haven't got any pictures,but Inverness Town House is worth a google. Like Willard earlier, I liked it so much I gor married there!
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If I ever marry, it shall be here:
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Not strictly a public building - Manchester University, Fallowfield Campus. "The Toast Rack"
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The much maligned Birmingham Central library.
Always loved the library building, especially as a youngster skateboarding around the hollow interior. The fact that jug eared twunt Prince Charles hates the place for not conforming to his neo classical ideals makes it all the more special.
Birmingham University, which I'm sure jug ears would love.
This is the art deco swimming baths at the bottom of the road where I grew up
And this is the interior. The pool used to get boarded up during the winter and the baths were used as a venue for music ( The Beatles played there ) and as a venue for the local 5 a side league - Monday nights, 20 minute games, packed to the rafters, great stuff.
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Not really 'public' but when i did my degree there you could just walk in and have a go on the paternoster lifts (which they turn the speed down on every september
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Attenborough Building, Leicester University.
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So ugly they listed it as a reminder of 'how not to', which unfortunately means we're stuck with it. In fact, I think it may have been the architects only bit of work, built, not surprising really.
New County Hall, Cornwall btw.
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"Binners - Member
This one will be a 'marmite' one I'm sure..Manchester Civil Justice Building"Binners, agree on the Marmite comment. I worked on the MCJC during construction and it is an awesome piece of engineering. The Beetham Tower (Hilton) was going up at the same time and stole the limelight, but there's some impressive stuff in the Civil Justice Centre.
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London Road Fire Station (Manchester). Empty and future in the balance. Edwardian quality.
Sorry not a public building (deco Express building). Another manchester favourite
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Jeeze, I never knew Manchester had so many great buildings! I might even have to visit the place one of these days.
There. I've said it.
Fire stations? This place meant a lot to me as a very small child. In fact, I wanted to be a fire engine when I grew up.
Bethnal Green.
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I spose hospitals count as 'public/civic' buildings:
Paddington.
I was born in this one:
Now turned into flats.
This is St. Clements in Mile End, originally a workhouse, then a mental health centre.
Will also soon be flats.
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FFS Elfie, Bethnal Green fire station is just a fire station - it isn't a piece of wondrous architecture which ranks in the appreciation stakes.
Here, I give you Chelsea fire station .........it needs a bit of a clean, but I'm sure that you'll agree that it's a, well, fire station.
And my training tower's bigger than yours btw
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It's my thread so I can do what I want with it. It's about architecture that is significant to you personally. The good, the bad, the ugly. Whatever you find interesting.
Not that you'd understand what 'appreciation' means, coming from Croydon...
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Guy's Hospital Tower; a truly ugly building scarring London's skyline.
Apparently the tallest hospital building in the World. Wouldn't look out of place in, or spoil Croydon, tbh. Cracking view from't top though.
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It's about architecture that is significant to you personally.
Is that why you chose a fire station with a freakishly small training tower ?
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My home town:
Leeds Civic Hall
Leeds Town HallPosted 1 year ago # -
Is that why you chose a fire station with a freakishly small training tower ?
Yes it is Ernie.
And you can go and tell that to the firefighters what work and train there, and I will sit and eat a pastie as they batter you with their hoses.
Always mocking and cruel, never nice. Why can't you be more like me?
Go and find an interesting public building in Croydon please.
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as they batter you with their hoses
Yeah right, firefighters are a right bunch of soft pussies. They're probably well pleased that they've only got a little titchy training tower.....and not one of them big scary ones with them nasty mobile phone masts on top of it.
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Jeeze, I never knew Manchester had so many great buildings! I might even have to visit the place one of these days.
Let us know when. I'm sure we could arrange for you to be met (not in a sinister way!).
Habitat in Manchester. Not much of a building but during WW2 my gran worked there. A bomb got dropped down the lift shaft and didn't go off but the rush of air blew the contents on the ground floor out through the windows. My gran had to pick it all up.
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Bit late posting it, but I didn't have a photo available to put up, so I took this one this afternoon:
Pretty new, and built after a lot of complaining by some people, it's the Records Office for Swindon and Wiltshire. I really like the design, although it's pretty rectilinear, it has a touch of Frank Lloyd Wright about it.
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Senate House, London.
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The recently opened Hehir Building in Ipswich, it's a science block for UCS (public cos it's got a cafe on the ground floor.
And the admin block/lecture rooms around the corner. It has a sedum covered roof which is red every spring and green later. Gallery on ground floor is open to the public.
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