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Posted: 27 Sep 2015

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Blavatnik's shining eyesore

Blavatnik's shining eyesore
Jericho's gentle ambience ruined by the monstrous Herzog and de Meuron spacecraft that's landed in Walton Street.
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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 GASOMETER?)

"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."

gross blavatnik square or round?
9 years ago. Edited 5 years ago.
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Inspired by the Radcliffe Camera?

Oxford Radcliffe Camera
9 years ago. Edited 2 years ago.

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