roof top view
« builders
|
Main
|
buildings between lamp posts »
buildings archives
strange orphaned tower
this little old tower sits in the middle of a road surrounded by modern off ice blocks. classic london architecture
glaxo building
just as i took this picture a plane flew by (they do that quite a bit round that area)
buildings that look like they should be from the future
this is a building by my office. it looks like what you'd hope buildings would look like now in the future when we were back in the past.
london growing up
buildings growing up
a present from stalin
this is the warsaw palace of culture and science. it was a present from stalin which was nice of him
it looks a lot like it's from ghostbusters
centre point
click for big
crazies hall
jane and i went for a walk at crazies hill on wednesday, and walked by crazies hall.
it looks quite posh. that's because it 'bears the facade of the old Henley town hall' (according to here)
but it's not particularly subtle
and some rather fancy gates are being fitted
a quick google search reveals the internal layout which is very fancy ! hoorah for the internet
up with the new building
it's interesting they are constructing it with the windows added before the top is finished.
taking photos of buildings being built is probably better than taking them when they are fully constructured. they'll never be in this state again and people in the future will be interested. once it's built, anyone can take their photo. you have to be at the right place/time to get a photo of something being constructed.
two different views
normal
negative (i love the colour of the sky in this one)
out of focus building
this is a rubbish picture of a building. but quite nice as an abstract.
did prince francis turn up to the closing ?
part of working in london is you see buildings beginning and ending their lives. for every gherkin, there's a middlesex hospital
there must have been much excitement when the Middlesex hospital opened in 1910.
but now it's all shut and moved to the fancy new place on euston road
and the old place looks so sad
i'd love to go in and take some photos. but totally unlikely i suspect.
permanent house
permanent. rather than temporary
london is grey
here is the colour photo i took of this typical london scene:
and here it is converted to grey:
not much difference really.
the great british broadcasting corporation
yeah for the BBC
police information box
nowadays you can get all this information from their website
4 towers
2 BBC towers, BT tower and All Souls tower. one day i'll take my SLR to work and get this with a bit more wider lense-ness
holyrood place
i think it looks better from the inside
guess the building
what which london building is this ? it's a b-list in terms of buildings go, but is still quite imposing.
the monument
The Monument is one of those funny places which people just forget about. i had a meeitng a few minutes walk from it and i was a bit early so i paid my £2 and went in
there's 311 steps on the cantilevered stone staircase which seemed to go on forever
right at the top of the Monument is a drum and a copper urn from which flames emerged, symbolising the Great Fire. The whole thing is 202 feet high - the exact distance between it and the site in Pudding Lane where the Great fire of London began on 2 Sept 1666. The Monument was built to commemorate the Great Fire of London and to celebrate the rebuilding of the city.
thanks to 300+ years of public access the viewing platform is covered in graffiti
of course the thing that once stood high above the city is now lost amongst the taller building around it, like the new gherkin building
but there's still a fine view of Tower Bridge and the river
service stations
for all round fantastic futuristic architecture, you can't beat Lancaster (Forton) services (more here). shouldn't all buildings look like this by now ?
these photos were taken out of the window as we drove by
it gives the impression they cook using nuclear power
My all-time favourite service station, for all round loveliness is the Killington Lake one (southbound only, up by the lakes somewhere). It's got its own little lake and would make a nice destination in itself. i only took a picture of the sign this time though.
mundane tower block
click for big
the writing's on the wall
i wonder if this was the flashing neon of its day ?
click for big