Subtopian
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Flâneur. Enjoyer of towns, cities and buildings. Uses words like flâneur, then has to go and look up what they mean.
London, thence the world.
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There's a secret space under the Barbican where they tried out different finishes for the concrete. Exciting!
#Barbicantours
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Another shot of that f'amazeballs church in Stevenage. Phwoar.
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Nosing around another abandoned Underground station (this time: Down Street in Mayfair).
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I get unnecessarily excited about car parks with spiral ramps. This fine example is Romford.
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Textbook British use of a riverfront - an access road to the back of Primark.
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No 1 Croydon looking really rather spiffy this morning (1970, Seifert and Partners)
@modernistsocCRO
@C20Society
@Grindrod
@EwanMHarrison
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Cooo. Here's a photo of Battersea Power Station I took 11 years ago.
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This is just about my favourite building ever. Improbably slim stilts. Canting bay windows. Well done, Basil Spence
#Basildon
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Well, this is chuffing amazing. The 'Camberwell Submarine' - sleek Brutalist air vents for the district heating system
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I'm still too annoyed by this architectural joke to even finish this sentence properly
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University of East Anglia in Norwich being a 10/10 in the sun.
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Channeling my inner Jonathan Meades and gawping at the proto-Brutalist WWII implacements along the coast from Folkestone.
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Your periodic reminder that the Superdrug in Canterbury is *epic*
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"So, can you make the corner cantilever weirdly, and use spandrels to suggest there are twice as many floors?"
"Yes, but why?"
"Hush..."
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As a child, I thought Surbiton didn't actually exist, and was a joke on Suburb-iton.
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Proper Wimpy vibes from Bedford Station's improbably well-preserved waiting room (1989).
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Ladies and gentlemen, the UK's first sunken / elevated roundabout. Bizarre there are no other tourists here 🤷♂️
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Happily chanced upon this 1950s banger in Walthamstow. Strong vibes of Chrisp Street Market. Which is nice.
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Sure, sex is nice, but have you ever been in a semi-Brutalist / semi-castle (with 30s massing up top) Barclays in Maidstone?
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This used to be one of Croydon's multi-storey car parks. They retained the frame and this excellent staircase. I like.
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I've always had a weakness for chamfered walls of bronze-mirror glass ♥
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Twitter chums! Any tips for architectural things to see and do in Glasgow? I'm defo visiting Cumbernauld New Town :)
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Cube Houses in Rotterdam. Predictably bonkers. Reminds me of the Barbican inside, perhaps because of the highly-designed use of internal space.
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Reasons to try the doors on random Rotterdam churches - they might let you in. It's like a baby Coventry Cathedral (appropriately).
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An abundance of foxy green pantiles on this 30s confection. Even the garage is trying to match.
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Fun news: the best-fenestrated building in Croydon is going to be one of the UK's first of the Wendy's reboot
@modernistsocCRO
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Today's Permitted Excursion: the Homebase in the shape of the Crystal Palace. And just look at the architecture fans just queueing up to see it 😍🤐
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Is there a proper book in appreciation of the New Towns, or do I have to write one? Asking for a friend.
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I do get [over-] excited about an absolutely massive 90s shopping centre. Someone threw cash at this.
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I Inadvertently took some rather beautiful pictures of Croydon after a heavy downpour.
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Ah, Basildon on a grey morning. Astonishingly good tower by Basil Spence.
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Spencer Road Halt, which closed in 1915. The rails are still peaking through the undergrowth. Delightfully random thing to find during a lockdown jog.
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My regular pilgrimage to the greatest Superdrug in all the land.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I think I have found the worst new-build bay window in the history of ever.
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Oh, to get on a train and go to an arbitrary place and wander around and have a cup of tea in a snazzy cafe 😔
The Art Nouveau "Turkey Cafe" on Granby Street, central Leicester.
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Sadly closed at the mo, but some of the best fenestration in England, in my humble opionion
#Bexillpavillion
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Fun that the lintels remain level across this terrace, even as the ground level dips to the right.
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Illuminated Brutalism of Sheffield ♥ (Anyone know what the first two images are - telephone exchange?)
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I rather like the daffodil-yellow panels and architrave. Bench with view of a boulder is a bit more confusing.
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Enjoyable British seaside combo of gentility, tawdriness and strident bad taste.
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Chuffed to find that my rather foxed copy of the 1952
#Corby
New Town plan as an immaculate condition colour map folded into a pocket at the back.
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Just about my favourite place in the whole of London - the Thames Barrier Gardens at Pontoon Dock (which, apparently, no one else knows exist)
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I've always wanted a causeway leading to my front door. And a subterranean car dungeon
#Purley
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Meades klaxon!
Concrete Poetry and Corbusier. Jonathan Meades on Brutalism - BBC 4 and iPlayer tomorrow.
#corbusier
#brutalism
#jonathanmeades
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Unexpected find of some painted concrete murals in Staines - anyone know if they're Bill Mitchell?
@Birmingham_81
@Concretekestrel
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Curious eBay purchase contains a photo of the snazzy (and listed) Deco lido diving boards, which are now stranded, surreally, in a garden centre.
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Just noticed how the detail in the stucco band decreases as it gets further from street level.
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Fun fact: the 70s Jubilee Line uses golden yellow panels to simulate daylight and subconsciously guide passengers to the exit.
The Elizabeth Line uses reflective black panels to create the sense of space that the tunnels continue into the distance.
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