Iconic buildings - That make you go.......

[rodericb]

h0b0 said:

When this building was first posted it was 2011 I had a view of the building from my apartment. I then had a house built in the suburbs which I subsequently sold and moved to another house.

I went to NYC recently and saw the boarded up 5th Avenue because of the fears Trump supporters would riot. They left the boards up because the stores remained closed or open but protected.

I heard Di Blasio is going to re-invigorate New Yorks economy through the plywood industry. Another strategy he has, which dovetails nicely into the boarded up shopfronts, is that reducing the numbers of visitors and residents in New York City through various methods, the city also saves money in policing, load on infrastructure and all that. This is the type of long-term strategy New York needs!

[oxford drinker]

One of my favourites- the Pantheon in Rome. Built 1900 years ago and the world’s largest unreinforced concrete dome.

[stogbandard]

h0b0 said:

Deangtv said:

Currently closed due to a need for better barriers. Here it is a couple of weeks ago.

A representation of the trip to the loo at Wetherspoons. Was that the inspiration?

[motco]

This was where I had my first job... No, not in the Tesco store that it now houses, but in the heyday of domestic appliance manufacture in the 1960s. Sadly Hoover is now a pale shadow of its former glory.

[Rostfritt]

motco said:

This was where I had my first job... No, not in the Tesco store that it now houses, but in the heyday of domestic appliance manufacture in the 1960s. Sadly Hoover is now a pale shadow of its former glory.

That is quite a building, I just looked up what it looks like on the inside and it is as gloriously art deco as you would expect.

I remember driving up the Great West Road a few years ago and marvelling at all the factories in a similar style, like the Gillette Building.



I think it is a bit of a shame that big factories and warehouses are now just steel shells that get thrown up in a few months. Obviously nobody is ever going to make huge brick clad structures like this with their name carved into the facade, especially as very few seem to still be occupied by their original owner.

[motco]

This one, on the Great West Road again, was demolished over the weekend preceding a preservation order being applied on the Monday.

[Sticks.]

Demolishing that really is criminal.

55 Broadway, 'London's first skyscrpaer', St James's Park tube and home of LT. Soon to become a hotel, if it isn't already.



There used to be a cafe, Bruno's iirc, which had original features, a Paperchase last year. Largely unchanged inside though.



On a modernist theme, one of the original wards at Benenden Hospital, originally a chest/TB hospital.

[Sticks.]

And while looking for old pics, some more of the De La Warr, including the famous staircase from another angle.







I love that as well as being a great piece of architectural art it's in daily use as a social hub.

[RMDB9]

TimJMS said:

Iconic Frank from me. The Kaufmann Residence, Pittsburgh, 1935

Edited by TimJMS on Saturday 5th November 15:19

Fugg me and my mosq**to net, but that place must be full of 7 or a 8 legged inhabitants

[RMDB9]

jimmydash said:

Interior TWA

I find these kind of stairs extremely difficult to manöver, you take some steps, then the flat area makes you fall out of step-rhythm, and then it is steps again.

[Rostfritt]

RMDB9 said:

I find these kind of stairs extremely difficult to manöver, you take some steps, then the flat area makes you fall out of step-rhythm, and then it is steps again.

They don't look the worst as that is a decent rest between each flight. What is worst is the type that mean you always step up with the same foot, I end up with one leg aching more than the other and keep having to break step to give the other leg some work to do.

[McGee_22]

Rostfritt said:

RMDB9 said:

I find these kind of stairs extremely difficult to manöver, you take some steps, then the flat area makes you fall out of step-rhythm, and then it is steps again.

They don't look the worst as that is a decent rest between each flight. What is worst is the type that mean you always step up with the same foot, I end up with one leg aching more than the other and keep having to break step to give the other leg some work to do.

Try these then - Lutyens black and white alternate steps in Gledstone Hall.

[Dyl]

motco said:

This was where I had my first job... No, not in the Tesco store that it now houses, but in the heyday of domestic appliance manufacture in the 1960s. Sadly Hoover is now a pale shadow of its former glory.

This and the Firestone building posted above remind me of the India of Inchinnan building, former home to airship construction then India Tyres, near Glasgow Airport.

[motco]

I wonder whether the architect s were the same as the Hoover building.

[snabzter]

motco said:

I wonder whether the architect s were the same as the Hoover building.

They were both designed by the same company.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/India_of_Inchinnan

[PomBstard]

It was 10 years late and more than ten times over budget, but its nearly 50 years old, and the original idea was selected in 1957...



By Goran Has - https://www.flickr.com/photos/goranhas/20193506222

[RJO]

98elise said:

McGee_22 said:

Another building which always takes my breath away is the Chrysler Building; overshadowed in height by the Empire State but so, so much more beautiful in every single way...

Agreed. We went to NY about 18 months ago and seeing the Chrysler building was high on my list of things to do.

Probably my favourite building of all time. Personally financed by Walter P, who drove the building from first sinking of the foundations, to first tenants in only 18 months. While the exterior is outstanding, with the Gargoyles and beautiful lighting of the top towers (which weren't turned on for many decades due to the recession), the interior is incredible and possibly the epitome of Art Deco Design. It will be worth your while researching the materials and design of the interior, but to give you a taste, check the following link.

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=chrysler+buil...

[Trevatanus]

Rostfritt said:

motco said:

This was where I had my first job... No, not in the Tesco store that it now houses, but in the heyday of domestic appliance manufacture in the 1960s. Sadly Hoover is now a pale shadow of its former glory.

That is quite a building, I just looked up what it looks like on the inside and it is as gloriously art deco as you would expect.

I remember driving up the Great West Road a few years ago and marvelling at all the factories in a similar style, like the Gillette Building.



I think it is a bit of a shame that big factories and warehouses are now just steel shells that get thrown up in a few months. Obviously nobody is ever going to make huge brick clad structures like this with their name carved into the facade, especially as very few seem to still be occupied by their original owner.

I took a train to Scotland in Summer 2019 (remember when you could do that!) and we passed a building that was identical to the Gillette Building. I had to do a double take!

[DaveH23]

We went to New York over New Year a few years back and booked a corner suite which offered views of either the Empire State or the Chrysler Building, we got the Chrysler.

[motco]

It may not still be like it, but I had dinner in the Rainbow Room at the Top of the Rockefeller Center in 1974, and it epitomised the era of the great transatlantic liners in every facet of the interior. It was wonderful. The dinner, on the other hand, was memorable for only one thing and that was the enthusiastic extolling of the virtues of a particular dessert to my MD by the waiter. Said MD was almost drooling at the prospect and he ordered this superlative pudding as a result only to be told in the broadest New York accent "Sorry, it's off..."