http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2006/oct/23/architecture.communities
> On 7 Jan 2016, at 07:55, Bob W-PDML <p...@web-options.com> wrote: > > On 7 Jan 2016, at 07:40, WILSON MICHAEL <m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > >>> On 07 January 2016 at 07:11 Alan C <c...@lantic.net> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Very smart. I'll bet it's quite crowded at peak times. I see the England >>> cricket sponsor is well represented! Surely it wasn't as depressed as you >>> suggest as recently as 1980? >> >> You would be surprised how dreary civic architecture was at the end of the >> last >> century. Take away the bright lights of the current situation and it's >> equally >> depressing. Maybe more so, as at least the concrete massifs resisted >> demolition >> somewhat. This new stuff falls over in a good storm. >> >> Even worse, that could be a picture of virtually any British town centre - >> there is nothing whatsoever to distinguish it from Liverpool, Cardiff or >> Aberdeen. > > That's certainly true from that shot. I think that's the Brunswick Centre, > which is in my opinion one of the better examples of Brutalist architecture. > It was a bit of a dump in the 80s, but it was home to the Leeds Camera > Centre, a serious professional photo shop, and also to a good arthouse > cinema, the Renoir [1] which I think is still there. > > Outside the frame there have always been, and still are, some very good > alternative shops and generally hip, groovy places which are far more > interesting than the chainstore desert in the shot. > > [1] presumably named after young Jean, rather than his daddy, Pierre-Auguste. > > B >> >> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Rick Womer >>> Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2016 4:06 AM >>> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> Subject: PESO - New Look >>> >>> Speaking of the UK... >>> >>> This shopping complex in the Bloomsbury section of London was a grim, arid >>> Soviet-style desert when we lived nearby 35 years ago. It has changed. >>> >>> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18149688&size=lg >>> >>> (K-5, DA 16-45) >>> >>> Comments appreciated. >>> >>> Rick >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
