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IIR, that hotel is right next to a very forgettable brutalist national library who's only merit is having several treasures from older time periods in it. When
by bane 11y ago
IIR, that hotel is right next to a very forgettable brutalist national library who's only merit is having several treasures from older time periods in it.
When I first walked up to it, I wasn't sure if it was a public rec center, library, school or prison.
On the other side of that same hotel are several quite beautiful modern, non-brutalist buildings (like the station). My gut tells me that the Library won't last 30 more years before tear down, but the station and the hotel will make it long after.
- fredley 11y agoAFAIK that building (the old Camden Coucil offices) have already been torn down. Or do you mean the British Library (which is excellent!)?
- bane 11y agoThe Library, which has amazing, mind-blowing, content housed in a lousy building designed with the language of minimal-cost semi-temporary public buildings the Western World over. It reminded me of my high school, which, the rumor was, was influenced architecturally by mid-20th century minimum security prison architecture.
- vilhelm_s 11y agoThe British Library is a Grade I Heritage building, so hopefully it will last longer than that. http://www.bl.uk/press-releases/2015/july/british-library-receives-highest-listed-building-status http://www.bl.uk/press-releases/2015/july/british-library-re...
- bane 11y agoUgh, really? This [1] place? Really? For the content certainly. The architecture is lowest-bidder-public-building, like they make schools and public swimming pools out of. My wife rather aghast that the treasures inside would be housed in such an ugly box and talked about it for several days after we visited it. 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Library#/media/File:British_library_london.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Library#/media/File:Br...
- twic 11y agoI was also outraged by the listing until i went inside. It's rather good inside. It's a shame about the outside, but i suppose people spend more time inside buildings than outside them.