ManorParkHammer 10:13 Sun Oct 4
Robin Hood Gardens
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Shocking decision again not to list the estate.
English Heritage are applying for another Certificate of Immunity and just have not listened to reason.
Jim Fitzpatrick wants it ripped down ASAP so get round there swiftly if you want to appreciate one of the best examples of Brutalism designed by some of our countries finest architects.
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ManorParkHammer
11:01 Sun Oct 4
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When were you last there Hermit?
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Hermit Road
10:55 Sun Oct 4
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I quite like brutalism design. Just not Robin Hood gardens. It's a toilet.
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Nurse Ratched
8:55 Sun Oct 4
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TEAK coloured wooden cladding, at that.
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ManorParkHammer
8:42 Sun Oct 4
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The new desire to build everything in metal or wooden cladding, painted render or glass is not to my taste like what Nurse is describing.
Each to their own my point is Brutalist buildigns should not be knocked down to make way for them.
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Joke Royal
6:26 Sun Oct 4
brutal thread from a little while back.
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http://www.westhamonline.net/forum_flat.php?7895847%7Ca0_a4_a2
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Nurse Ratched
5:16 Sun Oct 4
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Some pretty ugly stuff going up around Wembley too, Lower.
There is shiny gold monstrosity on Kensal Rise that makes me nauseous. Also noted a fair few buildings going up that appear to be constructed out of tongue-and-groove, or that cheap floor laminate stuff. So ugly it makes your eyeballs bleed.
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lowermarshhammer
5:05 Sun Oct 4
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Nurse 2.00
That area of flats by the canal vlose to Alperton station?
Classy views of identikit flats a few metres from your window.
Not for me!
I wonder how many of those flats will be social for peanuts next to buy to let for a lot next to privately owned for the truly desperate mugs who want topay for an extortionate new build.
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ManorParkHammer
3:49 Sun Oct 4
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They are shocking to live in if they are poorly maintained or poorly built.
RHG is the first of those.
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Mike Oxsaw
2:45 Sun Oct 4
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Chatham 1:31 Sun Oct 4
I wondered what the ex- was up to these days...
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Gavros
2:22 Sun Oct 4
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I like them architecturally, but I've heard they're shocking to live in. Like the balforn tower.
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Davenport
2:21 Sun Oct 4
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You bored mannor?
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Nurse Ratched
2:19 Sun Oct 4
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I don't like brutaliam, but if the Tellytubby blocks are the alternative, if would be much better to keep the brutes.
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ManorParkHammer
2:16 Sun Oct 4
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It's what will go up in place of RHG as well Nurse.
Whilst it is the current trend we need to fight against its uniform implementation at the expense of previous architecture.
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Nurse Ratched
2:00 Sun Oct 4
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Imagine sitting a 6 year old girl down with a sheet of paper and a bumper pack of Crayola, and you tell her to draw a block of flats she would like to live in with her friends.
Twenty minutes later she has drawn a block with wonky lines and angles, with wacky portholes for windows, 'decorative' flourishes you don't fully understand the point of, but appear to be made out of plastic or wire mesh covering half of the building, and each flat is a different pastel colour (blue, pink, yellow, mauve) so the effect is a patchwork or mosaic of multicolours.
This is the sort of thing that is going up all over the borough of Brent.
My theory is the architects and planners in Brent are actively taking the piss out of the people who will inhabit these buildings. The blocks look like housing for the Tellytubbies' urban cousins.
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,
1:46 Sun Oct 4
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A lot of people only live at the Barbican from Monday to Thursday nights.
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bruuuno
1:38 Sun Oct 4
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try telling that to the 4000 people living there
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mentor
1:35 Sun Oct 4
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Bruuuno
Apart from the Arts centre which I have already alluded to there is nothing there.
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,
1:31 Sun Oct 4
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Everyone knows that the Barbican development is a gross, brutalist, concrete blot on the landscape. It persists because of its proximity to other places.
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Chatham
1:31 Sun Oct 4
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There have been communal issues in Balfron and Carradale with the boiler.
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Marston Hammer
1:30 Sun Oct 4
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Apart from all that there's nothing there.
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bruuuno
1:28 Sun Oct 4
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mentor 1:15 Sun Oct 4
what apart from various restaraunts, pubs, theatres, art gallery, cinema, carp ponds, gardens, a fuck off museum, the biggest nightclub in england, ancient churches, tourist rat, a library and more history than you can shake a stick at all within a 5 minute walk.
Yea, its a wasteland
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