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Posted: 26 Oct 2015

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Jericho gasworks?

Jericho gasworks?
I prefer green gasometers
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 Isisbridge
Isisbridge club
Blavatnik architectural delusion as described in the Oxford Mail:

'Dean Ngaire Woods said she hoped the new building would become "one of the landmarks of the city". She said, "We are very happy with the result, and the architects have worked hard to make it sympathetic to its surroundings."

The reality is that there's no attempt at making it sympathetic to anything.

Blavatnik ruins Walton Street

Blavatnik's shining eyesore
9 years ago. Edited 2 years ago.
 Isisbridge
Isisbridge club
Notice how we had TREES here before the hospital was pulled down.

Radcliffe Infirmary outbuilding

Please, Mr Blavatnik Philanthropist, could the local residents have some more trees here, to mask the effect of your monster building and bring a little birdsong back to their lives?
9 years ago. Edited 2 years ago.
 Isisbridge
Isisbridge club
Incredible though it may seem, I've met ONE person in Jericho who says he likes the new Blavatnik building! But even he says it needs some large trees to soften it.

The more popular opinion is that it looks like a gasometer.
9 years ago. Edited 9 years ago.
 Isisbridge
Isisbridge club
The Blavatnik monstrosity has now received an award for "architectural excellence" from the Royal Institute of British Architects. Of course, it's always other architects who rate these carbuncles, and no-one asks the people who've got to live alongside them. For all that the Blavatnik School of Government is supposed to be about "sound public policy", public opinion was ignored when it came to ruining a local community with this hideously incongruous building. Please, Mr Blavatnik, would you donate a little more of your money for some TREES, so that we don't have to look at it.
8 years ago. Edited 5 years ago.
 Isisbridge
Isisbridge club
The Blavatnik Monstrosity carbuncle has now been shortlisted for the prestigious RIBA Stirling Prize, awarded for the "greatest contribution to the evolution of architecture".

BBC News shows Dean, Ngaire Woods, hilariously enthusing on how this dreadful building compares to the shapes of the Sheldonian, and how the "beautiful honey-coloured stone"
(i.e. those rings around the glass) are the colour of Oxford stone...

Sounds like a severe case of Architectural Delusion Disorder!

See if you can spot the difference.

Sheldonian Theatre
Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford

Blavatnik Monstrosity
Blavatnik's monstrous bulk

But the good news is Blavatnik didn't win it.
8 years ago. Edited 2 years ago.

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