IIRC they're some kind of prefabricated Scandinavian design? What are the windows like when you're actually inside?
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IIRC they're some kind of prefabricated Scandinavian design? What are the windows like when you're actually inside?
Crispy
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The bedroom's a bit gloomy, but the lounge/kitchen runs all the way front to back with a balcony on each end. Plenty of light.
Mr Bim of Bar
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How very kind of Barratts to give us a welcome pack, don't suppose anyone want two barratt mugs !(no jokes please) btw they have dropped the words BRIXTON SQUARE from the address, there is no signage saying BS and we have been told not to use it In the address. STRANGE.
By the way I think the new housing blocks (student housing??) either side of the Sainsburys in Herne Hill are actually starting to look quite good. They, I think, are based on prefab modules as well, but a bit more thought has been put into the appearance of the facades
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Strangerdanger
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Brixton square was just the marketing name - it was never a part of the address. Welcome mr bim. We didn't get mugs in our pack. Hmph.
Mr Bim of Bar
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Gracias señora
ChrisSouth
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CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
I'd be delighted to have a Barratts mug (or even two).
Would nicely complement my Statler & Waldorf mug.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
I have an annoyingly impressive collection of royalist mugs.
Rushy
basically a scrotum
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
A design classic
SarfLondoner
KenDoddsDadsDogsDead.
Do you have the silver jubilee 1977 (i think) ? we got one each at school.
Vibrant-Hubb
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The name "Brixton Square" has probably been dropped partly because it brings up this highly critical discussion if you Google it. Therefore, keep tweeting it, forum-ing it, and saying it.
SarfLondoner
KenDoddsDadsDogsDead.
Barratts have given mugs to mugs for mugging them off.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Definitely.
Have an Edwardian one too
I feel I should keep up what must have been a petit bourgeois family tradition but my heart's not in it.
SarfLondoner
KenDoddsDadsDogsDead.
thatguyhex
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Those balconies always make me think of Lego.
I didn't know that it was social housing - that's great. But I agree with teuchter, it really isn't a great-looking building - it's like they've tried to do an International Style/Bauhaus sort of thing, but gone too far with the minimalism and ended up with a white box. For me, adding some personality to those bland windows with sills and lintels would do wonders.
Rushy
basically a scrotum
I'm not sure that I am particularly strong evidence that such distraction techniques are effective against the intended distractees.
And, come to think of it, I lied. I also have a 1953 coronation mug found in a cellar.
Rushy
basically a scrotum
When did Lego go that colour?Those balconies always make me think of Lego.
I didn't know that it was social housing - that's great. But I agree with teuchter, it really isn't a great-looking building - it's like they've tried to do an International Style/Bauhaus sort of thing, but gone too far with the minimalism and ended up with a white box. For me, adding some personality to those bland windows with sills and lintels would do wonders.
There is a lot of work goes into detailing good minimalism, which is not evident in this case. Simplism, perhaps?
That said, I don't mind it. I quite like the fact it is somewhat unapologetic.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Lego lost the plot when it stopped being simple bricks and turned into complicated dioramas with bespoke components.
cuppa tee
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< awaits renaming of thread as "Brixton Square News gossip and general chit chat">
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
That's "Value Bauhaus". But I still prefer it to Barratts house style.Those balconies always make me think of Lego.
I didn't know that it was social housing - that's great. But I agree with teuchter, it really isn't a great-looking building - it's like they've tried to do an International Style/Bauhaus sort of thing, but gone too far with the minimalism and ended up with a white box. For me, adding some personality to those bland windows with sills and lintels would do wonders.
I guess it's all a matter of taste. You don't like Stockhausen either do you?
teuchter
je suis teuchter
What they have done is:
-Designed a unit
-Put some malproportioned windows into it in the way that was least complicated in their CAD programme, and that satisfied regulations with the minimum amount of thought on the part of the "designer"
-Multiply by 100
-Put units in stacks
-Realise it just looks like an ugly stack of ugly things
-Tried to counter this by mirroring some window/balcony arrangements on alternate floors
-Filled inbetween the stacks with service towers, which have to be higher than the stacks due to lift machine rooms, and thought "oh well they'll just be a bit higher, then, like it''s some kind of hunchbacked monster, we'll not bother to try and articulate it or anything"
-Put stupid circular windows in the stair towers for no good reason
-Squashed in some ugly yellow entrance way things at the bottom of the stair towers
-Realised it all looks pretty lumpen and imposing, so rendered it all white (except for the bits that are purply blue which was inspired by something they saw in Mothercare)
-Had a bit of an afterthought about I don't know what, and put whatever it was in some big yellow windowless boxes at ground level wherever there was some space
-Realised that their entire "concept" makes no allowance for what happens when their standard boxes meet ground level and the street, but but some balconies on there anyway
-Realised it's kind of stupid to have a projecting balcony at street level where someone could just jump onto it from the pavement, so countered this by sticking a big spiky galvanised fence along the pavement (now the lucky people with their ground level balconies can look at the back of a fence)
-Realised it's not particularly nice to have a big spiky galvanised fence all along the street so tried to disguise this by getting some public art stuck on it.
This monstrosity doesn't deserve to be associated with the words Bauhaus, Modernism, Minimalism, Design or Architecture.
But yeah I'm totally relaxed about it really.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
alongside Alma Mahler
Strangerdanger
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Don't think so, it's very common for the marketing names of these developments to be just that - marketing names. They're usually dropped when the properties are sold and given the proper address which was always intended.
Strangerdanger
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They taken down some of the fencing so i no longer have to peek behind it. It's just boarded up store fronts, a pavement and playing space where I guessing hedges will go.
Strangerdanger
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*planter space
Manter
Lunch Mob
That's the sensible answer. Vibrant-Hubb 's is much more entertaining though
gaijingirl
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followed by a bunfight when someone else starts a slightly differently named thread and lots of posts containing the words "ad hominem" appear...
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