Photos of old Norwich

[Nemesis]

Fascinating!

http://www.the-plunketts.freeserve.co.uk/o.htm

http://www.the-plunketts.freeserve.co.uk/index.htm

 

[alice]

They are very interesting, indeed. Thanks for posting this link.

alice

 

[Nemesis]

A little more Narch:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10119368@N06/1006850738/in/set-72157601188660428/


http://www.flickr.com/photos/10119368@N06/sets/72157601188660428/

 

[Gareth Hughes]

A little more Narch:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10119368@N06/1006850738/in/set-72157601188660428/


http://www.flickr.com/photos/10119368@N06/sets/72157601188660428/

Tut, tut. Anyone would think we've only got old buildings in Naarj:

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/18529

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/18530

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/372113

 

[Nemesis]

That multi coloured thing in number one pic is horrid. IMHO.

 

[Gareth Hughes]

That multi coloured thing in number one pic is horrid. IMHO.

Actually that's my favourite, and I walk past it every morning on my way to the car. The colours should have been stronger (which would have been even better) but the CO vetoed anything that wasn't pastel-y.

I was hoping to find - but couldn't - some good pics of the new Michael Hopkins extension to the cathedral which is, IMHO, one of the best fittings of new to old of recent years.

The multi-storey is, alas, due to come down soon and be replaced by new tat (on the basis that it's not very good, so anything must be better - how wrong they are may, alas, only become apparent once the thing's been built).

 

[Nemesis]

I like the car park! I like the waterside buildings too.

I have an averison to those coloured buildings, and fancy roofs. Soon look dated in my opinion, and in years to come, assuming that it's still standing, I wonder if the colours will remain, or if it will all be painted a nice magnolia?

http://www.terryfarrell.co.uk/projects/relaxing/relax_icl.html


I note that Newcastle Central Library, opened 1970 (Sir Basil Spence I believe) and a replacement for a rather attractive turn of the century building, has been demolished.

http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/core.nsf/a/libraries_timelapse_video

 

[Gareth Hughes]

I like the car park! I like the waterside buildings too.

I have an averison to those coloured buildings, and fancy roofs. Soon look dated in my opinion,

Of course it will, everything does:

“The same dress is indecent ten years before its time; daring one year before its time; chic (contemporarily seductive) in its time; dowdy five years after its time; hideous twenty years after its time; amusing thirty years after its time; romantic one hundred years after its time; beautiful one hundred and fifty years after its time.” James Laver

For "dress" read "building" or anything else subject to the vagaries of fashion.

 

[Nemesis]

No, I think some things look right from the outset. And some never do.

Thankfully, Westgate House is also no more. (Norwich Union...)

http://www.channel4.com/life/microsites/D/demolition/worst2.html

http://lcb.me.uk/losingit/v/demolition/westgate/


It was horrid when built, and I cracked open a bottle of fizz when it went.

Yes, that's the same Stephenson's Monument I posted Prof Stamp waxing lyrical about in another thread.

And the Centre for Life is slap next to Central Station, and opposite the Catholic Cathedral. Looks like it's landed from Mars.

 

[Moo]

No, I think some things look right from the outset. And some never do.

The significant word being 'some', of course.

 

[Schoolmarm]

The significant word being 'some', of course.

of course it was in reply to this though;

Quote Graham;
"Of course it will, everything does:"

The significant word being, "everything"

 

[Penners]

As modern buildings go, I like The Forum.

 

[Moo]

of course it was in reply to this though;

Quote Graham;
"Of course it will, everything does:"

The significant word being, "everything"

Perhaps Graham should have said (referring to Laver's theory) that 'most things do".

 

[Nemesis]

Actually it was Gareth.

Here's Simon Thurley:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/features/354311/wake-up-britain-is-being-demolished-under-our-very-noses.thtml

 

[Moo]

Sorry, Gareth!

 

[Schoolmarm]

Bugger, too late to edit

 

[charlie-ia]

i hope there is a campaign somewhere for the reduction of glass in buildings. theres all this disability rights (fair enough-dont get me wrong) but i suffer from vertigo and a fear of sudden drops.

its just not fair when you're walking along minding your own business and the nice firm floor disappears from next to you and you find youre 3 stories up with no warning, and nothing to hold on to, except perhaps a single bannister which is always right next to the window you would rather move away from. that fancy glass tunnle in the manchester arndale is just horrible, and the shop it goes to (m&S?) has big holes in the floor. all very bright and airy, and i hate it.

there, ive said my piece.

 

[Gareth Hughes]

As modern buildings go, I like The Forum.

Ooh, dear me no. Awful "one-liner" of a building, the @rse end of which is pointlessly curved towards the old (1714) Bethel Hospital, the side facing Theatre Street has a lot of silly left-over space which has had trees planted in it which will never reach maturity, and the big empty atrium occupies almost exactly the same volume as the new County Record Office (which used to share the site with the old city library but has instead been shunted off to a new building elsewhere so that two buildings have had to be built - at considerable expense - where one used to suffice, in order to massage the egos of the architects, politicians and funders who'd rather wast most of the volume of the new library than have a modest, sensible use of resources.) Oh, and there is a "plan B" so that when the library's funding is finally cut down to zero and it has to close, the whole thing converts into a shopping centre.
The only decent bit is the nice, dull, elevation towards city hall.
Pity, because Hopkins is an architect I often admire.

 

[Penners]

Oh. How could I have been so wrong?

 

[Nemesis]

Haven't been to Narch for ages. Maybe need a visit, and then possibly pistols at dawn to decide?