TfL destroy Paolozzi mosaics at Tottenham Court Road tube station

[Orang Utan]

The philistine CUNTS:
http://www.artlyst.com/articles/tfl...ozzi-mosaic-arches-at-tottenham-court-station

 

[cesare]

Kinell

 

[Manter]

Fucking ignorant bastards

 

[Hocus Eye.]

At the very least they should have arranged for a team of photographers to record the tiles. Paolozzi was a major British artist.

 

[StoneRoad]

That sttttttttttinnks, how / why can tfl (& others) get away with such vandalism.

Tfl should be forced to rebuild / restore those arches - in a suitable (re)location - if they can't be re-instated for "operational" reasons.

 

[weepiper]

Jesus

 

[5t3IIa]

TFL stated; "We have extensively explored the possibility of removing the arch tiles individually but less than five per cent could be removed undamaged because of the particularly rich mortar in which they are set."

Artlyst spoke to experts who have stated that this account is debatable and that removal was not throughly explored. The actual arches are false structures that could be cut out as a whole with the backing tiles removed by conservationists.

Bah.

 

[friendofdorothy]

I heard about this on the radio - you are right they are philistines - what a waste.
I love all those colours, it was the only good thing about the station.

 

[boohoo]

Reminds me of the reasons for demolition of the Newport Chartist mural.

Heritage is only allowed to be heritage when it doesn't get in the way of making money.

 

[stethoscope]

Fucks sake

 

[Pickman's model]

i think a private prosecution for criminal damage would be likely to win.

although i am sure a legal type will be along in a minute to rubbish that.

 

[Pickman's model]

The philistine CUNTS:
http://www.artlyst.com/articles/tfl...ozzi-mosaic-arches-at-tottenham-court-station

not content with fucking up the astoria and that grand auld kebab shop, they're crowning their vandalism of the west end with this vile underhand act.

 

[Pickman's model]

gone but not forgotten

 

[Bungle73]

Reminds me of the reasons for demolition of the Newport Chartist mural.

Heritage is only allowed to be heritage when it doesn't get in the way of making money.

Making money? TfL is a publicly run oganisation. It's not there to make a profit; in fact it does the very opposite: it makes a loss.

 

[boohoo]

Making money? TfL is a publicly run oganisation. It's not there to make a profit; in fact it does the very opposite: it makes a loss.

I can't be bothered to get into another time wasting urban argument. I thinks others get what I'm trying to say.

 

[Belushi]

Tfl should be forced to rebuild / restore those arches - in a suitable (re)location - if they can't be re-instated for "operational" reasons.

I'd have one in my flat :thumbs :

 

[Pickman's model]

Making money? TfL is a publicly run oganisation. It's not there to make a profit; in fact it does the very opposite: it makes a loss.

i don't think you understand what's happening to tottenham court road station. don't bother replying, by the way, you have nothing to add to this thread.

 

[purenarcotic]

Awful

 

[StoneRoad]

Reminds me of the reasons for demolition of the Newport Chartist mural.

Heritage is only allowed to be heritage when it doesn't get in the way of making money.

direct hit on the nail-head !

 

[Orang Utan]

I've just returned from a gig in King's Cross and felt like crying at the sanitised cultural wasteland that's there now. All that 'public' space in front of the new Central St Martins where so much magical raving happened in the 90s. London is slowly losing its character

 

[Belushi]

London is slowly losing its character

Aint that the truth

 

[Maurice Picarda]

I've just returned from a gig in King's Cross and felt like crying at the sanitised cultural wasteland that's there now. All that 'public' space in front of the new Central St Martins where so much magical raving happened in the 90s. London is slowly losing its character

Fair enough on the mosaics, they are a loss. But whining when disused warehouses and derelict land are regenerated into academic, office and residential spaces is pretty ridiculous. Would you have complained that London was getting too sanitised when Bazalgette built his sewers?

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Aint that the truth

No, it's bollocks. It's a huge city and its character is and always has been in a state of flux.

 

[Orang Utan]

Fair enough on the mosaics, they are a loss. But whining when disused warehouses and derelict land are regenerated into academic, office and residential spaces is pretty ridiculous. Would you have complained that London was getting too sanitised when Bazalgette built his sewers?

You don't know man, you weren't there. Clearly.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

You don't know man, you weren't there. Clearly.

Do you want English Heritage to put a blue plaque and a preservation order on everywhere you ever took a pill and felt more than ususally chipper?

 

[Orang Utan]

Do you want English Heritage to put a blue plaque and a preservation order on everywhere you ever took a pill and felt more than ususally chipper?

Yes, I would. The King's Cross of now is more of a wasteland than when it was full of ace clubs. They served London well and were of far more value than what's there now, the art college notwithstanding.

 

[Belushi]

Yes, I would. The King's Cross of now is more of a wasteland than when it was full of ace clubs. They served London well and were of far more value than what's there now, the art college notwithstanding.

You can get a chain store coffee though :thumbs :

 

[Orang Utan]

Maurice is also a philistine if he thinks a bunch of flats and offices are of more cultural worth than a bunch of dingy sweaty rave boxes and acres of graffiti.

 

[Belushi]

Maurice is also a philistine if he thinks a bunch of flats and offices are of more cultural worth than a bunch of dingy sweaty rave boxes and acres of graffiti.

Nothing like being lost in a scary shithole on a comedown :thumbs :

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Affordable and social housing at 50%. That's very rare in new developments, astonishing in somewhere so close to the centre. A community garden, two schools, a university for the arts, a concert hall, a cooking school. Even a nice home for the Guardian.

Yeah, a pretty good swap.