[Closed] Elfin's Tuesday Architectural Appreciation Thread! Hospitals and that.

I used to live round the corner from here. Salford Eye Hospital. its a lovely building. Now converted to flats. Isn't everything nowadays?

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Note: Free cathedral there Fred 😉

Now being replaced by this

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which looks quite intersting

Right, only pic I can find of this almshouse in Leominster - the bottom one here. Above the window there's a carving of an axe, and it says "He who gives away all before he is dead; let 'em take this 'atchet and knock 'em on the 'ead" Bit funny for a charity building I thought 🙂

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Another extremely old almshouse in Hereford, the Coningsby Hospital from 1634.

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And now all the way to the 20th century again, here's Cardiff Royal Infirmary (does not do it justice as a neo gothic giganticness)

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And this is Llandough, Cardiff's other big hospital (other than the Heath that is). Built atop a hill with gardens and a lovely view to help the patients convalesce. Still a lovely place today 🙂

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http://www.dago7.com/blog/blog7/The-Most-Incredible-Abandoned-Buildings-of-Mental-Asylums-In-England.html

Binners, where is the replacement for the old Salford Royal being built, or is that supposed to be what Hope will look like?

28dayslater is a great site for old derelict hospitals, well worth a look

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Craiglockheart hopistal in Edinburgh - where the War poets ended up
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Formerly Norfolk and Norwich hospital frontage.

I do believe the facade is being retained as it's listed, but a new development modern flats are being built behind.

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My local:

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Oh dear, C_G fail. 😳

Bregante - Its being built on Oxford Road as part of MRI. The article is here:

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QVH East Grinstead. Home of the Guinea Pig Club.
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Not an architectural gem, but McIndoe's magic had a very real impact on my life, so one that means a lot!

Big fan of Manchester's new children's hospital.

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Bright, light, colourful, exactly what is important for that kind of building.

UCL Cruciform building. Used to be a hospital that is in the shape of a cross on plan. I can't find any good photos, but it really is lovely with a great attention to detail. A very inefficient use of land area though so wouldn't be designed like that nowadays.

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St George's Morpeth.

I grew up on the grounds of here my Dad worked there for years.

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The Old Edinburgh Royal Infirmary:

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Hmmm. Firefox keeps crashing when open a google searched image. Odd.

Hmm, thought this might be a challenging one. Hospitals are invariably built for a purpose, and not as great architectural statements, so it's difficult to find examples of much outstanding.

The range of styles and eras present in some of the larger hospitals is quite large though.

Royal London, Whitechapel:

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Guys:

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UCL:

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Not an architectural gem, but McIndoe's magic had a very real impact on my life, so one that means a lot!

The whole point of Tuesday AA is about buildings that have meaning to you, personally, and those which stand out for you. Don't matter how big, small, grand or modest they are. It's all about the appreciation of buildings.

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I disagree with you there elf - older hospitals are some very nice buildings with great architectural detail such as the tilework - useless as modern hospitals mind you.

Old Edinburgh royal
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The funkiest hospital on cbeebies
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Horton psychiatric hospital Epsom. I worked there for a year with a subcontractor - a truly lovely hospital set in really beautiful grounds, which was built by the London County Council (1903). Some of the work required reference to copies of the original construction drawings, and as a sign of how the English language evolves, all the drawings referred to Horton "Mental" Hospital. Whilst working there I discovered just endearing psychiatric patients can be. Sadly it is no more - psychiatric patients are now given pills and told to fend for themselves.

I have failed, I can find no pictures of hekilopters flying over cool looking hospitals. 🙁

Here you go Emma, just for you; a hekilopter flying over a hospital. 😀
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Elf, that was why I posted it. The work of McIndoe gave someone I loved dearly a real life. That makes the place truly special. I regularly pop by Archie's old place to tip the hat at the blue plaque on the wall.

Heh! Now we're talking! 😀

The London Air ambulance, with Guy's hospital just visible in the distance:

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HEMS landing on the helipad of the Royal London Hospital:
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A mate of mine, as a photography student, once managed to get permission to go up onto the pad to take some photos for his project. To his complete and utter astonishment, thery then asked him if he'd like to go up in it, as they were performing a training exercise.

The jammy, jammy bastard! 😮

Elf - do me a favour pretty please. My pics were tiny, could you use your Googling skills and find some larger ones please?

Assuming you know where it is. 😀

Elf, that was why I posted it. The work of McIndoe gave someone I loved dearly a real life. That makes the place truly special.

Sometimes it don't matter so much what a place looks like, it's what it means to us that's important.

I was born here. It's nowt special really, architecturally. A bit flipping significant to me though!

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Was disused for many years, now converted into flats. At least it's still there though.

Kewl, how come google let me down today? It's gone tits up obviously 😕

Nice chopper captain 😀

Nice one Elf.
Here's my local one, the Wiltshire Air Ambulance flying past Great Western Hospital, Swindon.
Thanks to this particular Paraffin Parrot my brother survived a bad motorbike accident.
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No contribution from me this week as the only hospitals that mean anything to me, St Chad's Birmingham where I was born and the Ladywood Birmingham Children's hospital where I spent a couple of weeks as a child, are no longer working hospitals and Google images gives no results.

Sad sign of the times 🙁

Emma, it's all about your search parameters, if you want a hekilopter over a hospital, look for an air ambulance.

Nice chopper captain

Thanks, petal... 😀

Ok, so using 'hekilopter flying over big hospital' might be a bit wordy then 😕

I'm only used to searching for lol cats so searching for pictures is new to me

@captain NP 😳

Oi! That's my chopper, not his!! 😡

Actually, something interesting about hopsitals:

The word 'Bedlam' originates from the first 'mental asylum', which was in the Bethlem hospital at a site near Bishopsgate. The hospital moved about quite a lot, and in 1815 moved into this building, which is now better known as something else:

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Still associated with the madness of humanity though....

Baathalohhna, such a beatiful horizon

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Oh actually it was countzeros chopper I was admiring, got confuddled. You have displayed a very nice chopper to though elfin.
Captain I take it back, your chopper stinks!!

EEEuuuuwww... smelly chopper! 😡

Nasty. You wanna get it seen to, Flashy. Centre for Tropical Medicine might be a start... 😉

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Free cathedral in the background too! 🙂

Emma, I'll have you know it's very clean at the moment.

For architecture:

Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona

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Maggie's Center in Inverness:

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And for personal reasons - Great Ormond Street Hospital (an amazing place that is both heart wrenchingly tragic and wonderfully cheerful and positive, with the best staff in the world)

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No idea if these images will work - I am officially an IT numpty 🙂

Maggie's Centre, Dundee. Frank Gehry

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Nope, they didn't work ... I am now confirmed as an IT incompetent.

Fortunately one of them is the same as the picture from Brakes - love the building in his / her second picture.

Mis use and poor handling causes such problems I believe. Im also told that every time you fly solo god kills a kitten.

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Maggie's Center in Inverness:

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And for personal reasons - Great Ormond Street Hospital (an amazing place that is both heart wrenchingly tragic and wonderfully cheerful and positive, with the best staff in the world)

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Thanks TJ!