^^ Thanks for that second video Lisna, that was lovely. Is that really the most famous view in England? If yes, why?

Didn't watch much of the first video, too sad. The U.S. really resembles the third world a lot of the time. The wealth disparity is incomprehensible.

Thanks for the response, adidasss.

Glad you liked Gold Hill. It's an exaggeration to call it England's most famous view, although many people would recognise it because of this award-winning tv ad that set new standards of what an ad could be:-



Yes, somewhere in this thread OH and me talk about America's "Rust Belt" as it is called: makes me think of Chernobyl tbh. Marie Monday posted some beautiful pics of rust-belt houses too.

Thanks for the info. :)

It's obvious when you think about it.

The other day I mentioned how architecture has a limitless number of styles, and very often a label is slapped on that relates to a time period. In Britain, Tudor, Georgian, Victorian are commonly used adjectives, which of course refer to the monarchs of the time.
In Russia, in a basement in Ekaterinburg, they drew a brutal line under their their monarchal dynasty, so how do they label post-revolution architectural styles? Logically enough, by the dictator of the day - and if you watch this video you can learn the differences between a Stalinka , a Khrushchyvoka and a Breshnev commieblock. 11 mins, thick accent, but I found it a very interesting insight into Russian public housing, plus great photos of sad-looking buildings:-

That's interesting, Mindfulness! Like any big, old building, I feel that it needs a book full of diagrams to explain properly what has gone on with Penn Station, and what New Yorkers have there now.

https://rpa-org.imgix.net/work/Repor...&ratio=&w=500&

Do you think this is the new Penn Station, with 3 separate buildings? Or is Penn South underground?
And how about the impressive original: has it been completely destroyed? I'm going to go all-out ballistic, with a "mad" emoji for the 1963 planners: :mad:

For me at any rate, your link is not opening :(
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Here's a CNN article, "New Buildings Set To Shape 2021": https://edition.cnn.com/style/articl...021/index.html

If your taste in buildings resembles mine in any way, be ready for some visually disappointing projects for the brave new 2021. Of the eight featured designs, there were only a couple I liked. My fave:

https://dynaimage.cdn.cnn.com/cnn/q_...nt-housing.jpg

A little imagination and colour adds interest to a building that still fits in well with the conventional building, bottom left.

Design fails imo:-

https://dynaimage.cdn.cnn.com/cnn/q_...rts-center.jpg

A building so drab and utilitarian that it it resembles an electrical substation, barely distinguishable from the streetlighting poles in front of it. Tacking on a gimmick that looks as grossly out of place as a goitre does nothing to redeem it.

https://dynaimage.cdn.cnn.com/cnn/q_...ay-library.jpg

Great - if you want buildings that look like they were designed 50 years ago, when stuff like this was a little more cutting edge.

Hey that's in Amsterdam! I know that building well, it next to a station I use a lot when I'm there. I've seen the building process happening but the fun thing was that it got finished after I went to England, so when I came back again to visit the colours were really a surprise

Well, that's a nice coincidence, Marie! It's actually a really big building, isn't it? - of student housing, if anyone is wondering.

I was very surprised when I first realised that you were in England until very recently. The minute I found out, I wanted to ask where you were exactly, but felt that it wasn't a very discreet question on an open forum. But you were at university, right? so that narrows it down.
(*googles UK university towns*)

Yep I'm at university. I usually talk more openly about these things on discord because it's less public but I'll pm you