The Rubble Club
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It is shame about that canopy though. I am convinced they could have left it in place and possibly reused it as some sort of motorway stop. What a waste of public funds.
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A real shame about the canopy, it looked great!
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It did...and had a wonderful view...just a pity about the highway running underneath it. It just tickled me that architects needed 'bereavement' counselling. They should try spending months building a theatre set and watch it reduced to matchwood almost before the last patron has left the theatre.
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Reading between the lines I think it was the BBC who came up with the "bereavement" tag- it sounds to me like "The Rubble Club" (the name is a giveaway) has got less to do with helping architects cope with the loss of their buildings (they're too busy mourning the loss of their jobs anyway) as it is a tongue-in-cheek poke at the effects modern political wrangling and economic forces have on the increasingly disposable built environment.
On the other hand, maybe I should apply for membership on the grounds that in my 2nd year at university I spent a week building a physical model of that term's project, well ahead of schedule.... then came home drunk from a night out and stood right on it.
The sad thing about the demolition of the Forth Road Bridge toll gantries was that for 40 or so years they were just ugly engineer-designed (sorry) grey columns and beams with no aesthetic consideration evident whatsoever in the design. Finally, when this mundane structure, which is driven through by tens of thousands of commuters and Highland-bound tourists every day came to the end of it's life somone decided that its replacement ought to be elegant, interesting and given a little more thought than is normally afforded to scaffolding. Reich & Hall Architects delivered the goods and everyone who I heard comment on them (mostly non-architects) liked them and then 1 year later they were demolished... it just feels wrong.
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