The Gentle Author’s Tour Of Ghastly Facades
The White Hart was established in Bishopsgate in 1240
I am thrilled to premiere THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR OF GHASTLY FACADES in Spitalfields this summer.
Join me on my first humorous tour of ghastly facadism on Saturday 24th August at 2pm. I shall be telling fascinating tales of the old buildings that have been lost, and explaining why it is happening and what it means. Based my book THE CREEPING PLAGUE OF GHASTLY FACADISM, I guarantee to induce laughter and horror in equal measure.
Ticket price includes complimentary tea and cake served in the drawing room of an eighteenth century house at the end of the tour.
Blossom St, Norton Folgate (image courtesy of Stanton Williams)
Commercial St, Norton Folgate
The Former Fruit & Wool Exchange, Brushfield St
Great Eastern Railway stables in Quaker St is now a Hub Hotel
At Toynbee Hall
The former Cock a Hoop in Artillery Lane
Proposed facadism in Commercial St that was rejected by Tower Hamlets planning committee
The facade of Paul Pindar’s House from Bishopsgate is now in the Victoria & Albert Museum
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When you look at it, you realise that the project planners are in a dilemma — they want to create something NEW and preserve the OLD at the same time. Not an easy task when you want to please EVERYONE!
Love & Peace
ACHIM
So powerful in metaphor that one is lost for words.
You showed us some of these places on your early tours, and your book records the trend really well. Future observers will look at facadism as a weird desperate effort, a commentary on greed and loss. Sigh.
I visited friends in Madrid back in 2003/2004, there was a lot of this springing up there. However, it seemed to work because the new buildings behind were not nearly as imposing as shown here.