Diya and I went to central London over the holidays, but first we had to go to meet Annie Auntie and have a bit of a natter with her about a charity.
We were a tad early so I took some photographs of this street called as Petty France Road. As soon as you come out of the station, you see this bloody Lubyanka of a building.
This is the building which contains the Department of Justice. What a monstrosity.
Its just a blank slab of a building with some really strange bits and bobs. 
Why have that roof? 
And then this row of windows look like something out of a laboratory which is carrying out experiments on animals in a radioactive zone. 
There are these concrete fins…
Rows of blank staring windows. 
The only bright spot of colour is the flag. 
More views of the tower. 
The fins…
Windows and shadows
Workmen working in front of the building. 
The tower…
The bottom of the tower has those laboratory windows again. 
Moving to the right and seeing the tower from another angle. 
Can you see the rails which the window cleaning unit uses? 
Looking up at the tower…
Another building to the left of the Ministry of Justice. There is a fair number of windows, no? Behind us turns out to be the headquarters of the London Underground. 
This is truly another grotesque building, concrete, crappy windows, blunt angles. Disgusting. 
How can people even make this crap? 
The building has a flag flying over it, the London Underground flag. 
There are these Soviet looking statues stuck in the facade. They look leprous, disgusting…
It really looks atrocious
Looking back at the Ministry of Justice and the flag backlighted with steam from the heating system. 
Walking towards the rear of the building. 
Goods entrance? I thought the Ministry of Justice would use a Bads entrance, no? They would have a Goods exit? 
I have no idea about Jeremy Bentham…
Views of the rear end of the tower and the building. 
Forbidding ironwork, but then its the bloody Lubyanka…
Even the stairs look manky. 
A London Underground flagstone with a web address. Interesting, eh? once they would put in the name or a contact address on flagstones for sewer entry or what have you, but now? Its a web address.
We move inside the hall of the London Underground Station. 
There’s the entrance to the head office. 
Get out of the building
And we see some policemen striking in front of the New Scotland Yard. Hmmm. Fills one with deep confidence..
1 comment:
What a philistine you must be... Offering pejorative and blanket criticism on a subject you clearly know little about. The Ministry of Justice building is by Sir Basil Spence, one of Britain's greatest post war architects, yet you don't bother to research your subject before pouring your ignorant scorn all over it. Terms such as disgusting have no place in a balanced critique, but you happily apply them liberally. Might I suggest the next time you offer your malignant point of view, you at least offer some salient facts such as provenance and historical context, instead of willfully rude and inaccurate analysis again on a subject you have no right to be offering any opinions whatsoever.
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