It's Elfin's Tuesday Architectural Appreciation thread! This week- Bricks.

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:

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:

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.

inside

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:

Clandon Park

I’ll see that and raise you a Ham House:

A little bit of Brunel, Greenwich Foot Tunnel south building:

I should be sleeping here this weekend if this damn ash cloud behaves itself 👿

Tower House, Whitechapel;

Once the home to the likes of Stalin, George Orwell and Jack London.

Now expensive trendy flats….

Deansgate locks. I hate the pretentious **** 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 🙂

Fort Dunlop

Baltic Flour Mill

This thread’s wonderful, I love brick buildings and structures. The two Bristol buildings at the beginning are very familiar, the Byzantine one used to host a music venue once upon a time. It’s in Welsh Back. The Maidenhead Brunel Bridge I know as well; I worked on that a few years ago when I was doing some agency stuff, helping a bloke who specialised in bridges over water assemble a pontoon up river then tow it with a Zodiac to the bridge so repairs could be made to the brickwork. Great fun, but it was March and snowing, and a bit brisk.
I love this little bridge, I’ve been watching its restoration over the last few years:

Double Bridge, the Wilts And Berks Canal, near Reybridge, Wiltshire.

bikebuoy – your first photo is Madrid cathedral not Florence 😉 very nice it is too.

Im pretty sure that masonry buildings arnt brick buildings? e.g. the great wall of china or some of those castles.

Get more dieste on here, his stuff is insane!
DIESTE

Some stuff you wouldnt believe possible with bricks!

Not Madrid Cathedral, probably Milan becuase that’s what bit says in the photo title, anus…

Not a bullfighting fan, but the main Madrid bullring:

Stourbridge glass cone, quite impressive in an industrial kind of way.

… Im pretty sure that masonry buildings arnt brick buildings? e.g. the great wall of china…

lots of bricks in the wall of china:

The great thing about this place…

Is that it has two bike shops!!!

Nah, deffo the back entrance to the Duomo in Flo’ sorry, lived there for 2 years so know it well.
Too many churches to post here, seriously stunning stuff just inland from Flo’ over to Sienna.. “one must totally go there yah”

Best thread so far. I like honesty in build, from worn out labour to inspired design concepts.. Huge fan, thanks for bringing this one up Elfin.. <clap clap>

Whilst I’m on Elfin, that Bar you posted earlier is call Bar Hubbub and I’ve an Appt over the road from there.. Loadsa stuff from the East End, excellent.. “it’s all cockeney init”

Why have the Europeans some inspired designs, we’re only just catching up, which is about time.

More pics please.. loving THIS thread.

Near my home villiage, Cambs

Now near where I live, Hants.

Following on from Abbey Mills, Crossness:

With it’s much more jazzy interior!

Dagenham Civic Centre for a bit of good old deco goodness!

Mudejar architecture (Moorish Christian converts) is wonderful:

More moorish architecture, the Giralda in Seville is possibly the most famous example:

Closeup:

Civic Hall, Sotty.

St Mark’s Venice.

Mk1

Mk2

Good Call GTDave. More Art Deco lovliness:

Speke Airport Terminal

Like em’, love em’, loath em’ they’ve been with us for many years now belching steam..