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The Talented Mr. Zhisou has tagged me. Apparently I am to divulge my obsessions, presumably on the point of death. I better get to it then, eh?
I guess I pass through phases of obsessive behaviour. When I was sixteen I could pretty much name every football player in Italy’s Serie A – now that is very sad, and certainly obsessive. Now I doubt I could name much more than the starting line-ups of AC Milan, Inter, and maybe Roma – although ask me about 1994’s roster, and you get pretty much everything. I do retain information rather well (another sign of an obsessive).
So, here goes…
I know what you’re thinking. Now here is a real sad bastard. And I guess I am. Mrs. tyger deserves some recognition for putting up with my expensive tastes and my rather strange traits. But she does, and I love her for it.
I tag: Political Penguin (this should be fun!), Juve, and Jams.
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Another beautiful shot of some buildings. Why am I so interested in architecture I have no idea, but I’m always spellbound by cities.
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Great use of HDR.
This building has great significance for my family as my mother grew up in Adelaide, and on her journey back to Britain - via Sydney, she passed the newly constructed Opera House.
Off to bed, need an early night. Be good and play nice.
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This is simply awesome.
Expect to see more of ‘Mor’ in the new ‘irregular photo of the day’ series.
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RMJM, the British architects who were earlier this year given the green-light for the Moscow City Palace, above, have won another high profile contract in the Russian capital: The new Gazprom headquarters. It seems British design still leads the way. From The FT: -
Sphere: Related ContentThe contest for the Gazprom contract was controversial, in part because of fears that the beauty of the Russian city would be tarnished by the building’s proposed height. RMJM defeated five other international architects for the commission to develop proposals for the $600m (€451m, £303m) tower in the historic heart of the city, close to the Bolsheokhtinsky Bridge and Smolny Cathedral.
Slippery Dave’s remodelling of the Conservatives seemingly knows no limits. Policy Exchange, Cameron’s favourite cuddly Tory think-tank, are proposing the naming and shaming of Britain’s architectural ‘eyesores.’
Of course such an endeavour would be highly subjective, not to mention politically vacuous, and the tearing down of landmarks, no matter how ugly some consider them, is likely to be met with outrage from people who consider them to have historical value, or simply part of an areas character.
In a move that’s likely to piss off BabyWashington over at Fisking Central, one of the buildings targeted in The Battersea PowerStation on the Thames. James O’Shaughnessy, the policy wonk behind the proposal, ought to watch his back…
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More photos later, when I get chance to upload to flickr. Apologies if you’re not interested in my holiday snaps!
Some Soviet architecture is nothing short of spectacular. The Opera House in Novosibirsk
BabyWashington, over at Fisking Central, is right, there is something wonderfully masculine about Battersea Power Station.
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