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Sometimes it does a soul good to get away from the built-up spaces of a city — even a city with a wide and sweeping, ever-changing tidal river like the Thames — and head out to the coast and walk on a beach for a few hours. Such was the reasoning behind last week's visit [...]

When we last left Painshill Park, we were standing in the Gothick Temple, taking in the view across the lake. In the middle of the lake is a funny little grotto. It's rather remarkable, although a very difficult structure to photograph. It sits on a tiny island in the middle of the lake — or [...]

As I mentioned in my previous post on the subject, Painshill Park is quite a large estate, and there is a lot to see in it — our visit was about five hours long. Our first stop was the walled garden, which is full of pretty colours from the wonderful flowers. Charles Hamilton was a [...]

The Carbuncle Cup, award for the worst new building | Building Design – The longlist for 2009's Carbuncle Cup. What stands out about most of the entries is how the buildings themselves stand out, as in almost none of them work sympathetically with their environs (some aren't actually terrible buildings in themselves). Also, the "Nissen [...]

One of my favourite books is Headley & Meulenkamp's Directory of UK Follies, Grottoes and Garden Buildings1. It's a delightful book that has provided me with many hours of fun, reading about funny and obscure buildings in all sorts of unlikely corners of the country, built by all sorts of wonderfully eccentric people. I could [...]

Whilst in Oxford, I also took quite a lot of photos of various grotesques that lurk on the buildings (no gargoyles, though, 'cos I didn't see any I liked the look of as much — it seems as though the artistic endeavour was most often ploughed into the grotesques rather than the gargoyles). Of course, [...]

In search of the Atom Style / Atomium 58: 14 visies [Comics and Architecture post #3] – And speaking of the retrofuture, I want to go to these exhibitions at the Atomium in Brussels. Amazing building, wonderful art, lovely beer, who wants to come with me? I'm thinking first weekend in September (it finishes on [...]

Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? [Comics and Architecture post #2] – And talking about comics and architecture, I'm quite curious to read this book, even though there's something about the art that slightly puts me off (the colours I think) But the attention to design detail sounds very impressive. "I think there’s at [...]

Architects Journal on the Top 10 comic book cities [Comics and Architecture post #1] – Meant to post this last week. Obviously it's got different stuff to what I'd have chosen — I'd have included Carla Speed McNeil's wonderful Dome of Anvard City from her comic Finder, and Rian Hughes' retrofuturistic version of London in [...]