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Posted: 26 Dec 2015

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ugly Blavatnik building

ugly Blavatnik building
the stupid architect couldn't decide if he wanted it square or round!
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Philanthropy starts at home. Dear Mr Leonard Blavatnik, please could you donate some big TREES to hide your monstrous building that is so blighting the local environment of Jericho?
8 years ago. Edited 8 years ago.
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www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/nov/15/oxford-university-architecture-dreaming-spires-hard-cash

"A cylinder of void rises seven storeys"

(INSPIRED BY AN OLD GASWORKS?)

"The form, say its architects, Herzog and de Meuron, is inspired by the university’s freestanding monuments such as the baroque Radcliffe Camera, but the material is deliberately not of its context, nothing like the neoclassical stone ex-chapel to one side, or the Oxford University Press building, also stone and classical, opposite, or the modest houses of the surrounding streets. The material is high-class curtain walling, a variant of a type seen everywhere.... It creates a privileged inner life wrapped in a distancing exterior."

Blavatnik's shining eyesore
8 years ago. Edited 4 years ago.
 Isisbridge
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The Blavatnik carbuncle has now been shortlisted for the prestigious RIBA Stirling Prize, awarded for the "greatest contribution to the evolution of architecture".

Dean, Ngaire Woods, compares it to the shapes of the Sheldonian Theatre!

See if you can spot the difference.

Sheldonian Theatre
Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford

Blavatnik Monstrosity
Blavatnik's monstrous bulk
8 years ago. Edited 3 years ago.
 Isisbridge
Isisbridge club
"beauty is fascist"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq3YHWZFbFw
23 months ago.

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