Living Walls - Bringing Greenery to The City
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Crazy Buildings
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I studied architecture at university for a year, but was told my designs were always too quirky, above functionality.
It was a fair call, but here are some quirky buildings which DO work.
It was a fair call, but here are some quirky buildings which DO work.
I've been to the upside down Wonderworks building myself.
The Largest Listed Building in Europe, it's a Modernist Monster
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Despite the daytime TV schedules being crammed with car boot shows & antique auctions show, and despite my penchant for crap tv, I never tune in of a morning.
However, I was making a cup of tea in my Mum's kitchen half an hour ago & got stopped in my tracks by a daytime telly piece about Sheffield's Park Hill Estate. It's an abandoned monster of residential living, completed in 1961 and falling into disrepair in the 80s.
It's now undergoing a multi-million pound regeneration, after becoming a listed building meaning it can't be demolished.
I'm not convinced. There's something a bit bleak about that artist's impression of the finished product. The hot air balloons are all a bit Logan's Run. Soylent Green is People.
Martha's Vineyard Gingerbread Houses
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I always appreciate it when Twitter friends point out things they think would be apt for The World of Kitsch.
@AideenJ tweeted me this morning after enjoying the posts about multi-coloured houses from a few weeks back.
Aideen asked me had I ever seen the Gingerbread Houses of Martha's Vineyard? I hadn't! I always though Martha's Vineyard was a chain of restaurants for a start. Thank you for sharing these with me, and anyone else, feel free to tweet me things you find here & there @rudedoodle.
