https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/10/26/my-ghastly-facadism-book-launch/ 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, 12 Nov 2019 22:41:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/10/26/my-ghastly-facadism-book-launch/#comment-1320580 Tue, 12 Nov 2019 22:41:16 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=177521#comment-1320580 there’s one on caledonian road that is not even connected to the building

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/10/26/my-ghastly-facadism-book-launch/#comment-1318099 Sat, 26 Oct 2019 11:50:53 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=177521#comment-1318099 Love the misalignment of floors on the book cover. Attention to detail. So what if light & views are blocked? So long as square footage is maximised. They’d have you walking on your knees if they could squeeze a couple of extra floors out.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/10/26/my-ghastly-facadism-book-launch/#comment-1318087 Sat, 26 Oct 2019 09:49:17 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=177521#comment-1318087 Re ‘Whiteleys Department Store, Bayswater’, has it been knocked down again?

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/10/26/my-ghastly-facadism-book-launch/#comment-1318083 Sat, 26 Oct 2019 08:42:25 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=177521#comment-1318083 I agree that the facade was added to the former women’s public baths. Even worse than its physical existence was the subsequent removal of the wonderful women’s library that had previously existed in the basement of the adjacent part from decades previously. That too has now gone from the east end and was placed in the LSE.

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