Marie Monday

Oh cool, I agree with your opinion on FLW. Definitely need to watch this

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Lisnaholic

Back in the 1980s I was walking around London one day and saw this unusual building by chance. I had never seen anything like it: a greenhouse right in the centre of London full of little architectural jokes. At the time I didn't even know there was such a thing as an architectural joke - but I had stumbled on the iconic birthplace of the British Post-Modern movement, built by Terry Farrell, and alas, already demolished

(If it's not clear from the photos, behind the big frontage, there is only half a building, and two of the columns, which should be doing the actual "work" of supporting the glass-roofed building have been turned into purely decorative elements instead. The 3 solid columns on the left, that look like they are doing the heavy lifting, are holding up almost nothing.)

The Post-Modern style has come up with a lot of interesting buildings, but not many that are as simple and stylish as this one.

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DianneW

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DianneW

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Photos of Basilique St-Sauveur

Lisnaholic

You have some nice pics of France there, Dianna, all taken by yourself I presume. Thanks for contributing to this thread.

For technical reasons, I only post photos I can find on google, I'm afraid. Here's one of an art gallery in Eastbourne; a post-script to a dialogue I had here ages ago, about colour in architecture:-

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DianneW

Local to where we live, typical look of the roads and houses.. A chateau and then a basic house can be next door...


both taken from the car, on the move, in same location...


Guadalest, S. E.Spain near to Benidorm

All my pictures this time taken with a phone camera, very pleased with the Guadalest one as it looks very much like one that is on the internet..
the others of churches etc were not mine but off the internet.

Lisnaholic

I love your first two pics ! That kind of street, on a wet day, reminds me of a village in Cornwall I used to visit, but of course there are scenes like that all over Europe: old buildings on a crooked street are so attractive.
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But if you're commisioned to build a modern university building, what can you do? This is the busy, brick-clad Queens Building for De Montfort University in Leicester. It seems to look like a different building from each elevation, which makes it unusual. Also striking are the ventilation towers:-

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DianneW

This link for world wide architecture is good if you have time on your hands....
https://www.e-architect.com/city-buildings

this next one includes the local online newspaper we get, quite useful, and the architure of that first one is to me pretty gross...but then I like the old buildings overall...churches I like to wander about in and think stuff..although I am non religious that makes no difference to me.

https://www.connexionfrance.com/Mag/...n-architecture

Lisnaholic

This is an interesting link. Thanks Diana, if you are still with us.
If there is such a thing as too much modern architecture, this link may be that too. A week or so ago, I found a really nice building there, but cannot find it again.

If you are curious about how the Surfside Condo failed, this is a short and clear explanation:-



It's a reminder of how all the bits of a structure have to do their job: the failure of one part puts un-designed-for stress on other parts, leading to progressive collapse.

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Plankton

Thanks for that, I was wondering when the info showing what happened would be available. I have to deal with these types of stresses in some of our structures, but on a much smaller scale. Every time a salesman wants to throw a 20' container on top of a 40' container I have to reinforce at the casters all the way down to the foundation piers, which can really bloat the cost of the project.

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