Skyscrapers in London

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by MikeH
I think that's Molly 1 - 0 Provost

If he's just going to copy-and-paste Google links and then waffle on about how he has seen this and that, then I just can't be arsed. I can't help not being a ponce...

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison


If he's just going to copy-and-paste Google links and then waffle on about how he has seen this and that, then I just can't be arsed. I can't help not being a ponce...

But you can help being uncharacteristically ignorant.
Time for change, as the Oxfam slogan used to say.


Seems you can't be arsed to be polite or engage in constructive informed debate, or address your lack of knowledge of how the planning system works, or what the role of English Heritage is, or the dangers inherent in a deregulated zone, such as London Docklands- a plethora of uninspired buildings erected on the quick profit principal and without proper public consultation.


So far you've misrepresented me twice- either supposedly I'm a Prince Charles reactionary or a google haunting trendoid, neither of which is true.


Since you can't be bothered to address my arguments (or me politely) neither can I.


Oh, and drop the

ponce...

stuff.

It really isn't working and just makes you look like a less educated version of Catherine Tate's schoolgirl character.

[Provost Harrison]

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison

Dear me- repeating yourself too.


Not very inspired are you, if a sleep smiley is the best you can come up with when Potty Mouth Lexicon hasn't opened yet ?


Nothing Is Too Good For The Ordinary People.

[Provost Harrison]

Found Google again Molly?

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison


Found Google again Molly?

Oh dear. It's an iconic 20th Century public building. What did you expect me to do, draw it from memory ? Send you the blueprints by post ?


Note- I'm just posting a picture of a building I like, from a website I already know.

Even using internet search engines you couldn't find out that English Heritage has more than one function and supports the preservation of modern buildings.



How terribly sad when you resort to such obvious tricks in lieu of argument.

[Provost Harrison]

I just posted that I didn't agree with you. Some of these buildings are actually quite pleasant as opposed to that ghastly Trellick Tower mind you...

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
I just posted that I didn't agree with you.

No, you didn't- or does your memory need refreshing ?

I can't help not being a ponce...

amongst others.

If that's you just disagreeing with me, seems all those Oxbridge tutorials were a waste of time, then.


The Future of Modernism?

[Provost Harrison]

Well if you completely lack a sense of humour in the first place for an innocent comment about Wedgwood cladding well...

And why the Googlebombing?

Oh, and

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
Well if you completely lack a sense of humour in the first place for an innocent comment about Wedgwood cladding well...

And why the Googlebombing?

Oh, and

Oh, give it a rest. I already told you- the playground repartee doesn't irk me, as much as the misrepresentation- which you're now doing with the 'Googlebombing' crap.


How come if it's so easy to support your arguments by doing a quick google search, you couldn't work out English Heritage was more than an architectural old folks' home ?

Is your google bamboozled ?

Where do you get your pictures from ? The ether, I suppose....


Take a running jump...

[Provost Harrison]

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison

Clearly uninspired today aren't you ?


Not like this man...

[Patroklos]

That building is hideous, burn it.

[Provost Harrison]

It looks like an observatory on viagra

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Patroklos
That building is hideous, burn it.

Unlikely, given the materials used in its construction.

http://www.c20society.org.uk/docs/building/einstein.html

The Einstein Tower unites a domed observatory with an underground laboratory, while housing an unusual optical instrument, an unmovable vertically installed telescope. The requirements for accommodating the delicate optical instruments and other scientific apparatus determined the general elevation and ground plan of the building. Mendelsohn's task was to design only an appropriate shell for the technical equipment. For the young and unknown architect this was the first opportunity to realise his own architectural ideas. From the beginning he strongly believed in the potential of reinforced concrete to become the building material of a new artistic expression. Having the capacity to overcome the traditional limits of support and load, this building material offered a new, previously unknown freedom in architectural design.

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