The notorious Ferrier Estate in Kidbrooke, south east London – used as the gritty backdrop for the film Nil By Mouth – is being demolished and a new 4,000 home suburb built in its place.
For fucks sake.
Aylesbury Estate, soon to follow suit and be demolished and “regenerated”, probably as something equally revolting as the [...]
September 29, 2009
Categories: Architecture, City planning, Fail, Imbeciles, Russia, Urbanism, Western failure . Tags: Aylesbury Estate, British fail, Commieblock, Ferrier Estate, housing estate, miserable fail, public housing, Tower block . Author: Emiru . Comments: Leave a Comment
A curious phenomenon occurred at the farm of Balvullich, on the estate of Ord, occupied by Mr. Moffat, on the evening of Monday last. Immediately after one of the loudest peals of thunder ever heard there, a large and irregular shaped mass of ice, reckoned to be nearly 20 feet in circumference, and or a [...]
September 23, 2009
Categories: Fortean, Unexplained . . Author: Emiru . Comments: Leave a Comment
We’re making pornography.
September 11, 2009
Categories: Western failure . . Author: Emiru . Comments: Leave a Comment
Some form of large-scale and high-rise public or social housing estates exist in most of the major cities around the world. Their characteristics are different in many regions, and sometimes drastically different within a region, sometimes depending on from where certain influences have come. In some areas, there are even subtle differences and unique designs [...]
September 3, 2009
Categories: Architecture, City planning, Politics, Urbanism . Tags: City planning, Commieblock, housing estate, public housing, Tower block . Author: Emiru . Comments: Leave a Comment