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‘’Tis so raw-boned’: William Morris in Scotland
Scotland was not a country with which William Morris was particularly enamoured. His visits there, often undertaken with some reluctance, were only ever of a practical nature. In spite of his instinctive dislike for the place, however – displayed especially … Continue reading
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Tagged Architecture, Edinburgh, Glasgow, nineteenth century, Politics, Scotland, Socialism, Victorian, William Morris
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Why Churches?
The practice of visiting historic churches (especially of taking, say, two busses out to a remote village to do so) is not at present a fashionable one. In parts of the popular mind, it is something to be filed alongside … Continue reading
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Tagged Architecture, Church, Gothic, Gothic Architecture, William Morris
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Imaginary Edinburgh
If you go to Edinburgh’s New Town and stand at the corner of George Street and Hanover Street, looking south towards The Mound, you will be duly rewarded with a compelling piece of architectural symmetry. The weighty columns of the … Continue reading
The Utter Pointlessness of Brighton’s i360
From thence to Venice, Padua, and the rest, In one of which a sumptuous temple stands, That threats the stars with her aspiring top, Thus, hitherto has Faustus spent his time The history of architecture’s preoccupation with height at various points … Continue reading
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Tagged Architecture, Brighton, Brighton & Hove, i360, Sussex
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“A brickbat flung in the public face” – the failed Brutalism of Edinburgh’s St. James Centre
Jonathan Meades, in a recent column on the neglected merits of postmodernist buildings, wrote that “Today, 40 years after brutalism dissipated in an assault of bien-pensant hostility and oil crises, few weeks pass without a new book or blog hymning its … Continue reading
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Tagged Architecture, Brutalism, Carbuncle, Concrete, Edinburgh, Modernism
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On ‘Old Buildings’
‘Old buildings’ are things you go out of your way to see. You might see them environed by sunset on a tourist’s Instagram account, or on a leaflet encouraging you to pay money to be shown round them. They are characters in … Continue reading
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Tagged Architectural History, Architecture, Conservation, History, Old Buildings
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Edinburgh at Eye-Level & the ‘Heave Awa Hoose’
To begin straightforwardly – writing about architecture in Edinburgh is proving more difficult than I had imagined. Before I moved up, I had thought that I would hardly need to try, that my hitherto uninspiring blog would reach new heights, … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, Architecture, Cities, Edinburgh, Edinburgh History, Edinburgh Old Town, Old Edinburgh, Royal Mile, Scotland, Urbanism, Victorian Slums
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Edinburgh: First Thoughts
I’ve been in Edinburgh for almost two months, which I think warrants some sort of hurried treatise on the place, and as I’ve got the evening off I might as well see what I can muster. On this blog, I usually … Continue reading
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Tagged Architecture, Buildings, Cities, Edinburgh, Scotland, Urbanism
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(Not really) leaving Brighton: a self-indulgent walk from the station to the South Lanes
A few months ago I wrote a post in which I claimed to be ‘leaving Brighton forever’ or something to that effect. That was, of course, groundless melodrama. As anyone who knows me will tell you, I have been resurfacing … Continue reading
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Tagged Architecture, Brighton, Brighton & Hove, Brighton Station, Brutalism, Metropole, Psychogeography, Seafront, South Lanes, Sussex
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Notes On Castlerigg Stone Circle & Form Without Function
What clashes here of wills gen wonts, oystrygods gaggin fishy-gods! Brékkek Kékkek Kékkek Kékkek! Kóax Kóax Kóax! Ualu Ualu Ualu! Quaouauh! Where the Baddelaries partisans are still out to mathmaster Malachus Micgranes and the Verdons catapelting the camibalistics out of … Continue reading
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Tagged Aesthetics, Architecture, Building, Castlerigg, Finnegans Wake, Joyce, Lake District, Stone Circles
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Palaces & Workhouses 