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Brick viaducts are great. I go under this one on my commute.
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Lots of bricks, big bloody bricks but still bricks.
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Walk past this going to and from work
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hp_source - Member
Walk past this going to and from work
Is that the old cop shop opposite the Black friars telephone exchange in Manchester.?
yup, just always liked it
you mean the one round the corner from this:
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I grew up in this beauty, which is unusual in my mind because it has a bare brick exterior, unlike most taller 60s/70s tower blocks which tended to be made mainly from concrete. And this one, Sandall House in Bow, is still standing having needed only minimal repair. I din't live on the 15th floor though, that's where a little girl fell from last year. 🙁 I lived on the 19th floor.
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A classic 'brick shithouse' which would make an interesting and yet not too challenging restoration project
Isn't that just typical from you Ernie. You cooduv posted pics of some of Croydon's lovely brick buildings, but oh no, as usual you have to drag things down, cheapen and denigrate them. 🙄
Legoland
I'm going to accept that actually. Cos there have bin some lovely creations made from Lego.
Like this model of the Allianz arena in Munich:
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And of course James May's Lego house:
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But that's enough Lego for now please. I'll do a model buildings special edition soon.
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Tate Modern (formerly Bankside Power Station).
Sir Giles Gilbert Scott who was also involved in the Battersea Power Station design as in OP's start - note the resemblence.
Gilbert Scott used to like to eccentuate the height of buildings by only having intricate detailing such as corbellin, dentil courses etc near the top. Note the brickwork detailing near the top of the tower.
Or something like that anyway. 😉
[url= http://goo.gl/maps/vWVl ]Dale Street, Manchester[/url] Used for it's retro feel by Hollywood (Captain America etc)
Used for it's retro feel by Hollywood (Captain America etc)
Anyone else just goes there to pick up hookers and rent boys though. One of my mates used to work tin one of those offices, and the carry-ons that could be witnessed... 😯
and that was during the day. God only knows whatits like at night
Anyway... here's the detailing (and maybe the odd tree) on the top of India Mill tower in Darwen
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The old fire station in barrow in furness.
More Butterfield
Rugby School chapel
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Similar period to Keble College
Royal Hampshire Hospital, Winchester
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Macchu Picchu lovely stone brickwork.
You cooduv posted pics of some of Croydon's lovely brick buildings
yeah, clocktower etc is nice, if a bit fussy:
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Holkham Hall in Norfolk. Built from 'Holkham white' bricks which were cast as replicas of ancient Roman bricks.
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It's a bit more flamboyant on the inside:
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coming back to some modern brickwork from the Pixel House
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A lot, if not most of the buildings in the North West were built with these beauties:
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WWF headquarters
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Some lovely examples here, but the winner so far is Harry_the_spider's garden, very nice.
Edit: could be a theme for next week?
London Road Fire Station
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The building was the headquarters of the Manchester Fire Brigade until the brigade was replaced by the Greater Manchester Fire Service in 1974. The fire station closed in 1986, since when it has been largely unused despite several redevelopment proposals. It was placed on English Heritage's Buildings at Risk Register in 2001 and in 2010 Manchester City Council served a compulsory purchase order on the fire station's owner, Britannia Hotels.
Such a shame it was left empty for so long 🙁
Natural History Museum:
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but the winner so far is Harry_the_spider's garden
Awww... don't rub it in. We've sold it. 😥 The new house and garden is much better but it lacks a big brick wall and my new sheds are only made of wood.
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A lot, if not most of the buildings in the North West were built with these beauties
Am still amused at the story of how "Iron" became "Nori".
Good bricks, though.
Erm, I don't think stone and timber/plaster buildings qualify, but nice examples anyway. 🙂
My mum sed to mention this one, The Space on the Isle of Dogs. A 19th century church converted to a music/arts venue.
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And, of course:
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(That's London Brick, that)
i like the brick poop-houses.
there's the taoist concept of 'te' (the virtue of the small) - which i think applies to them.
they might be simple, they might be small, but that's ok, it's all they need to be. i admire their honesty.
another contribution from the east:
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There is a lot of quite exquisite chimney work throughout Chester on, I think, Grosvenor properties.
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Queen's School Chester, Chester using example of locally made Ruabon Brick
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My old dentist's.
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My local library pretty much the only nice building we have
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I like viaducts me, but this one I can see from my back garden, the Stambermill viaduct just outside Stourbridge
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The Silk Mill in Derby, birthplace of the Industrial Revolution and the worlds first 'factory'
Sadly the excellent Industrial museum within is now closed
Beneath this
Roman Catholic Cathedral in Liverpool (Paddys Wigwam)
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is Sir Edwin Lutyens crypt -
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and under construction in 1937
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It was actually the start of the cathedral proper and the whole building was meant to be brick but then came the war and money dried up. Later plans where scaled back to the concrete 'tent' thats there now (itself an iconic building)
Was planned to look like this the ‘greatest building never to be built’ (the frankly huge anyway Anglican cathedral in the background gives an idea of scale!) -
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and back to Derby
The Roundhouse, first dedicated railway engine maintenance shed, now superbly restored blend of old and modern and Derby College's Engineering department (I used to use it to shelter from the rain when it was derilict and I was working at developing Pride Park
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inside the old turntable hall -
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Stone aren't bricks, bricks are bricks. Stones are blocks
The stone round this neck of the woods is so good there aren't many brick buildings of note.
My favorite in this locale is the old Dalmellington Iron Works / Brickworks / Coal Mine. The result of a happy accident of geology - seams of iron ore, coal and clay sitting on top of each other. It was first an iron works built before before the industrial revolution had got its act together - architects didn't have any language for industrial buildings so the original stone engine house looks like a town hall. When the iron ran out it turned to brick manufacture and the brickworks were built around the older ironworks buildings and a crazy steel helterskelter of converyors was built around the old stone building. Love it. The brick kilns are funky. And on topic - a machine for making bricks made out of bricks
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But .... why do bricks need to be brick-shaped? The who point of working with backed clay is you can make bricks that are any shape you like
So - not architecture at all - but Field for the British Isles by Anthony Gormley. Made from brick clay by the lovely people of St Helens (including my brother) and fired in the Ibstock Brickworks
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But if bricks can be any shape than walls can have any quality, you can even make a brick that can make a [url= http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/modular-advances.html ]myriad of different walls and forms[/url]
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oh its all got a bit deep and complicated now 🙁
But did someone mention kilns?
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Not many good looking brick buildings round here. Most of the big old ones are stone.
But I've always been impressed by this detail:
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oh its all got a bit deep and complicated now
Which is absolutely wonderful. Some fantastic contributions this week, as always.
This is the 14th week of the new AA thread. I only expected it to run for a couple of weeks really, thought people might get bored, but I am happily wrong. 😀 Long may it run on STW.
Abbey Mills pumping station, Bow:
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It's a sewage pumping station. No one really ever sees inside it. But look at it ffs. It's beautiful.
It does, it makes me cry, all this. I love it. Keep it coming folks, some brilliant pics and great info. Really educational and enlightening.
Oh yeah, how could I forget earlier. This is one of the most important buildings in the history of western architecture...and it's brick built:
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Agreed fantastic threads and while Abbey MIlls's brickwork is nice on the outside, its the ironwork detailing inside that makes it really special
can I make a special request for next week Elfin?
as RIBA yesterday launched a competition to re-design electricity pylons (an Engineers job not an Architects btw ;)) how about pylons and towers?
and at some point, unless I missed it already, how about, and related to Abbey Mills - Victorian industrial architecture?
Clandon Park. Beautiful Palladian architecture, and I got married there.
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I'm afraid pylons and towers will have to wait, Iain. We're in the middle of a Materials Mini-Series. But rest assured, there will be threads to cover every conceivable style of architecture, type of materials/construction, eras, etc.
an Engineers job not an Architects btw
Ooh I dunno; I think you need someone with a sense of aesthetics as well, and some engineers have no sense of that whatsoever.
Oslo Rådhus:
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Clandon Park
I'll see that and raise you a Ham House:
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A little bit of Brunel, Greenwich Foot Tunnel south building:
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I should be sleeping here this weekend if this damn ash cloud behaves itself 👿
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Tower House, Whitechapel;
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Once the home to the likes of Stalin, George Orwell and Jack London.
Now expensive trendy flats....
Deansgate locks. I hate the pretentious ****y nonsense that it represents, but i used to go to raves there 'back in the day' and it was just some empty railway arches. Looks a bit better now. Though i doubt ordering a long island ice tea in these surroundings would be the same as swigging a red stripe while necking another E. Oh well. Looks good. Ho Hum 🙂
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