Things That Should Not Have Been Built in Britain

[Hornspieler]

Yeah go for it
and while you are at it
St Pauls, St Pancras, The Albert Hall etc etc totally out of scale and out of place

That ghastly glass suppository which dominates the skyline in the City of London.

The iMax cinema in Bournemouth which totally destroyed visitors' first views of the sea when entering Bournemouth (but Bournemouth Corporation have finally acceeded to the thousands of complaints from both residents and visitors and have started to dismantle it)

The New Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh (and the Scottish Parliament as well)

HS

[MrGongGong]

The New Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh

I like it ........

[ahinton]

I like it ........

You like what? HS's remark? The building? The Scottish Parliament itself?

Whilst it came in woefully - indeed infamously - over budget, it might come in useful after the 2014 referendum, although the newly independent Scots might then have to sell it to fund their application for EU membership, it would seem...

[salymap]

Big shoppings malls outside the surburbs and villages that can only be comfortably reached by those with cars and have caused the little local shops to close.

[MrGongGong]

You like what? HS's remark? The building? The Scottish Parliament itself?

Whilst it came in woefully - indeed infamously - over budget, it might come in useful after the 2014 referendum, although the newly independent Scots might then have to sell it to fund their application for EU membership, it would seem...

The Building

[ahinton]

Big shoppings malls outside the surburbs and villages that can only be comfortably reached by those with cars and have caused the little local shops to close.

Fair enough, but aren't those little shops and many of the villages in which the remaining ones are located also only "comfortably reached by those with cars"?

[amateur51]

Fair enough, but aren't those little shops and many of the villages in which the remaining ones are located also only "comfortably reached by those with cars"?

Herd instinct, all-in-one-place shopping and lots of parking play a big part

[salymap]

Fair enough, but aren't those little shops and many of the villages in which the remaining ones are located also only "comfortably reached by those with cars"?

There were several parades of small shops in the Kent/London suburbs where I live. Now we have to go to Bromley or Bexleyheath for anything much more than basic foodstuffs, and even a greengrocer has now deserted us as everyone here has at least three cars, it seems. I realise the economics of it and am lucky to have local relatives but some people are not so lucky.

[Flosshilde]

You like what? HS's remark? The building? The Scottish Parliament itself?

Whilst it came in woefully - indeed infamously - over budget,

Which budget?

[Flosshilde]

The new House of Commons (after the old one was bombed during WWII. Churchill refused to agree to a design that would have made Parliament less confrontational & two-party dominated)

[MrGongGong]

Buckingham Palace

it's a hideous building .........

[Flosshilde]

Buckingham Palace

it's a hideous building .........

The front facing the public is - the worst sort of ponderous early 20th century classicism by Aston Webb. Nash's garden facade (with an attic storey by Blore) is rather delightful.

[Ferretfancy]

As you walk across the bridge to the South Bank, a horrible excrescence has appeared on the roof of the Royal Festival Hall, sticking out on the left front of the building.
It's a cantilevered glass and metal structure,apparently built on short stilts, with a glass balcony. Apparently this is a B & B ! Or at least it's an expensive hotel room, whatever it is it completely destroys the aspect of the building. With the South Bank's deficit being what it is, I suppose they need the money !

[Serial_Apologist]

Big shoppings malls outside the surburbs and villages that can only be comfortably reached by those with cars and have caused the little local shops to close.

I suppose they had to do something with those two abandoned chalk pits either end of the Dartford Crossing, (in itself quite an impressive feature, even though a blot on the previous landscape). Hence Lakeside and Bluewater. But have you seen what they've done to once-beloved St Mary Cray, saly, on the NE outskirts of Orpington? It's a kind of nightmare vision of the future: a once cosy Kentish village, Georgian and mediaeval half-timbered houses clustered around a Norman churchyard, exiting onto a massive shopping and industrial estate, out of all scale to the original, complete with supermarkets, takeaways, storage facilities, (there's even a Waterstones), huge parking facilities interspersed with mini soft landscaping crossable only by the most daring on foot, skirted by a jewel carriageway!

[salymap]

As you walk across the bridge to the South Bank, a horrible excrescence has appeared on the roof of the Royal Festival Hall, sticking out on the left front of the building.
It's a cantilevered glass and metal structure,apparently built on short stilts, with a glass balcony. Apparently this is a B & B ! Or at least it's an expensive hotel room, whatever it is it completely destroys the aspect of the building. With the South Bank's deficit being what it is, I suppose they need the money !

What an idea for the RAH. Hire out floor space in the gallery, complete with sleeping bags, for prommers who have missed the last train or players who are due back on the platform at 10am next day