Comments on: My Facade Safaris https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/15/my-facade-safaris/ 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, 16 Jul 2019 08:08:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Bailey Jones https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/15/my-facade-safaris/#comment-1298614 Tue, 16 Jul 2019 08:08:52 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=175705#comment-1298614 Some worse than others. The Queen Elizabeth Hospital a little better than the others perhaps?

]]> By: Juliet shipman https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/15/my-facade-safaris/#comment-1298567 Mon, 15 Jul 2019 21:59:54 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=175705#comment-1298567 In most cases I would rather see the building pulled down that see it suffer such indignities.

]]> By: Kristine https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/15/my-facade-safaris/#comment-1298539 Mon, 15 Jul 2019 17:40:29 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=175705#comment-1298539 It is so disheartening to see this happening. It’s as if someone acknowledges that the very buildings they are destroying are worth preserving but greed has gotten the better of them so they’ve come up with this half-hearted attempt to save some of the building. One positive thing I’d like to note, the cover design for the upcoming book is really clever and nicely designed.

]]> By: Anne Scott https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/15/my-facade-safaris/#comment-1298518 Mon, 15 Jul 2019 13:58:09 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=175705#comment-1298518 I cannot decide which one is the worst…

]]> By: Jill Wilson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/15/my-facade-safaris/#comment-1298505 Mon, 15 Jul 2019 12:32:30 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=175705#comment-1298505 How depressing your safari must be! But I hope that the book will help stop the creeping plague…

I think the Caledonian Road excresence is still one of the worst. As a designer I can’t understand why the architects don’t seem to be making any effort at all to make the new buildings relate to the ghastly things they are building behind the facades – the Gaumont cinema above being a classic example of this!

As usual my gut reaction is a great big GRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!

]]> By: Marla https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/15/my-facade-safaris/#comment-1298498 Mon, 15 Jul 2019 11:32:48 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=175705#comment-1298498 How horrendously ugly!
What a shame to see this architectural purgatory.

]]> By: Joeanne https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/15/my-facade-safaris/#comment-1298489 Mon, 15 Jul 2019 09:30:54 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=175705#comment-1298489 The Bacchus public house in Hoxton
Is another listed building they should not have touched
Yet they built behind it and then put modern front but kept a small part
It’s a tragedy what they are doing

]]> By: Di Corry https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/15/my-facade-safaris/#comment-1298481 Mon, 15 Jul 2019 08:54:07 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=175705#comment-1298481 Utterly dreadful and depressing….”generic monoliths’ indeed.

]]> By: Sally Bernard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/15/my-facade-safaris/#comment-1298463 Mon, 15 Jul 2019 06:39:37 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=175705#comment-1298463 Something awful has happened opposite Regents Park, where part of a crescent has been swept away. Whether they have retained a facade there I dont know. Rarely pass that way any more.
Fantastic idea you have and I truly hope the book succeeds. It needed to be written.
Many good wishes , so enjoy your blog.
Sally Bernard.

]]> By: Valerie-Jael https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/15/my-facade-safaris/#comment-1298460 Mon, 15 Jul 2019 05:49:16 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=175705#comment-1298460 Absolutely ghastly. It reminds me of a song by Melanie Safka back in the seventies, where she sang ‘ you’re building the halls with the outer walls though you haven’t got a thing within’. Valerie

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