Comments on: Ubiquitous Unique https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/06/15/ubiquitous-unique/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Tue, 02 Feb 2016 10:13:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Barbara https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/06/15/ubiquitous-unique/#comment-1078835 Tue, 02 Feb 2016 10:13:44 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=135279#comment-1078835 As happens everywhere now, one of our lovely pubs closed down (after a cheap chain took over the one opposite). Then the demolishers moved in. They left the very old façade up and knocked down everything behind it. Then suddenly the façade disappeared as well.
Now we have a row of houses that mimic the style of the pub.
The sad thing is that a previous owner had put in for permission to become a B & B. Was refused on grounds that they had insufficient parking – even though its back door opened on to the main town car park! It would have been well used by people on their way to the ferry terminal less than 20 miles away.

]]> By: Elizabeth cornwell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/06/15/ubiquitous-unique/#comment-974316 Fri, 19 Jun 2015 12:07:36 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=135279#comment-974316 What an absolute load of codswallop!Nothing shown there could replace Georgian architecture!Were the designers influenced by Bucharest & other Eastern bloc countries!Its awful!

]]> By: Jonathan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/06/15/ubiquitous-unique/#comment-973266 Wed, 17 Jun 2015 12:43:23 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=135279#comment-973266 “Key objectives: To come up with a positive sounding post-modernist description that will convince someone to give us permission to put up a huge building as cheaply as possible in order to make an obscene amount of profit for an already wealthy individual regardless of the effect such a development may have on the local community or existing landscape”

Fixed that for them.

]]> By: Ellen in NEW England https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/06/15/ubiquitous-unique/#comment-972967 Tue, 16 Jun 2015 22:54:22 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=135279#comment-972967 boring and uggly!

]]> By: Mackay-stevens https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/06/15/ubiquitous-unique/#comment-972766 Tue, 16 Jun 2015 17:30:22 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=135279#comment-972766 Plimsoll building, is actually above a school for the deaf and an primary school, before you all get uppity. In an area which used to be wasteland around Kings Cross station. The rest of the buildings, are pretty damn awful. Some of the towers that go up, especially in the Shoreditch area, which has always been pretty low-rise makes me very sad. Blandness personified.

]]> By: robin clark https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/06/15/ubiquitous-unique/#comment-972498 Tue, 16 Jun 2015 07:54:47 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=135279#comment-972498 Hideous hogwash

]]> By: Neville Turner https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/06/15/ubiquitous-unique/#comment-972177 Mon, 15 Jun 2015 19:20:17 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=135279#comment-972177 Wow. All I can say is uncle Joe Stalin eat your heart out.

]]> By: Gary Arber https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/06/15/ubiquitous-unique/#comment-972115 Mon, 15 Jun 2015 17:01:26 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=135279#comment-972115 There is one bright side to this programme of monsters.
You oh Gentle Author will have a life time of horror buildings to rally your troops to fight,
You should have an active brain into very great age and go to your maker in great contentment.
Have fun
Gary

]]> By: Jean Rossi https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/06/15/ubiquitous-unique/#comment-972102 Mon, 15 Jun 2015 16:18:52 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=135279#comment-972102 And then I also have to add – have we not learnt the lessons regarding the impact of shadows?! These buildings may be environmentally built/heated (so they might claim) but the shadow cast through daylight hours over other properties and streets will make for really cold August pavements, and soaring heating bills for those in their very long shadows. Will the developers. Funders or tenants be forced to subsidise (pay) any increase in heating and/or lighting costs in their 360 degree vicinity. Will they have to pay increased taxes to pay for any increase inNHS costs due to people’s sudden exposure on a day of 22/25 degrees Centigrade to 10/15 degrees in shade but inappropriately dressed for such encounters. The massive increase in volume of air conditioning? What is the impact on air quality. Who pays for the direct environmental impact of these monsters. Who says we want to live like ants in black shadows of capitalist expansion gone mad! As someone whose health was ruined in the 70s by air conditioning air quality/temperatures I speak for the invisible people with chronic lung and breathing disorders triggered by first contact with air conditioning in The City! You get sick in your 50s and 60s and the Developers, Lessees, Sellers, lease backers, maintenance company and employers are long gone!! How will we work out their tax payment for killing a whole area of pavement life with inhuman ground level architecture and freezing cold pavements. Aaarrgghh! Did we learn nothing in the 50s and 60s!!

]]> By: Peter Holford https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/06/15/ubiquitous-unique/#comment-972100 Mon, 15 Jun 2015 16:16:45 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=135279#comment-972100 I spotted the terms ‘stunning’ and ‘game-changing’. I can’t argue with that. The developers are showing increasing signs of megalomania worthy of any totalitarian regime. There’s nothing new in that but in most democracies the planning authorities and other guardians of our environment normally knock them down to size. And that’s the difference – our guardians are either asleep at the wheel (English Heritage) or they are in cahoots with these modern vandals (Boris Johnson).

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