The other story in the Crawley News today was about expenses for councillors on fact-finding visits to Liverpool and Rotterdam. The facts appear to be that a group of 7 officers and 6 councillors went on visits to compare town centres to help them with planning the major redevelopment of Crawley, the developers paid for […]
Entries Tagged as 'Buildings'
Overseas jollies
December 28th, 2006 · Comments Off on Overseas jollies · Politics
Tags: Buildings·Crawley·Crawley Council·Local Papers·Netherlands·Town Planning
Ugliest building in Britain
December 16th, 2006 · 7 Comments · Politics
When I saw the Crawley News on Wednesday my curiosity was piqued by the teaser on the front page which said “Library is branded ugliest building in Britain: page 10” and I was quite looking forward to getting to page 10. I imagined it was a verdict from some relevent body like CABE or RIBA […]
Tags: Buildings·Crawley Council·Hyperbole·Local Papers·Town Planning
Art for art’s sake
October 30th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Life
Channel 5 seems to have moved on a bit from its early days of low-brow smut and now has a very watchable arts strand presented by Tim Marlow. Last week he presented a programme about the Carsten Holler slides at the Tate Modern which included lots of access to the artist and regular visits during […]
Dymaxion
October 17th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Technology
Today I found out all about Dymaxion and Buckminster Fuller. Such an interesting character: I can't believe I had never heard of him before. Fuller was an American designer, architect and inventor – and much more. He coined the phrase 'Spaceship Earth' and invented the geodesic dome. But he did so much more. In a […]
What I learned today
September 28th, 2006 · Comments Off on What I learned today · Life
This building is probably my favourite new building in London, and now that it is nearly complete all the scaffolding has come off and it can be seen properly at last. Already a couple of floors in the middle look to be occupied, as I can see from the window of my morning train. It […]
1 Westminster Bridge Road
May 22nd, 2006 · Comments Off on 1 Westminster Bridge Road · Life
This building will be familiar to most people who have spent any time in London. No. 1 Westminster Bridge is generally regarded as an eyesore from the 1970s which was unpopular when it was built and then fell out of favour at an alarming rate. It was not just the building, but its location on […]
Tags: Buildings·London·Photos·Town Planning
Washout
March 7th, 2006 · Comments Off on Washout · Work
Two things you do not want to hear in the same breath: ‘flood’ and ‘server room’. This afternoon there was a bit of a flap when someone discovered some water in the room containing half a dozen racks full of servers. By the time I left it was looking manageable as all the cabling is […]
Vader Towers
February 24th, 2006 · Comments Off on Vader Towers · Life, Technology
Remember this scary building? I was itching to take a picture of something – anything – today, now that the camera is back. So I went for a short walk at lunchtime to get a bit closer and get a better view of what we now call Vader Towers. Here are the results. In the […]
High Level Meeting
December 13th, 2005 · Comments Off on High Level Meeting · Work
I went to a high-level meeting today. When I say 'high level' I mean it was on the 15th floor of an office block at Vauxhall. The views from there are fantastic. Fortunately I had my camera with me. Unfortunately the windows are a bit grubby and do not open. It was also a bit […]
Scary Building
December 1st, 2005 · Comments Off on Scary Building · Life
I like this building. When I joined the company it was a typical square block with a bit of scaffolding. During the first year it was clad and extended upwards. When all the scaffolding came down, this is what we could see from our window – back when we still had windows. It really has […]
