East Dulwich Hotel

[alice]

Thanks J makes sense now

[Penguin68]

So that would be ?1.3m for the full run? Makes more sense than just ?350k, considering what will have to be spent on them - and should offer a developer a tidy but not wholly exorbitant profit, considering the likely development time and cost of funding a loan. And remembering that this will be a taxable profit, (on what basis, capital gain or trading profit) depending on how the purchasing company is structured.

[1983groke]

It now looks like someone drank 10 pints of Stella, ate a kebab, and vomited over the East Dulwich Hotel on their way home. 'Stunning', apparently.

[wordsworth]

haha very good... it's a abomination a utter disgusting disaster... guess someone will rent one when er...

[tiddles]

Ha ha ha my other half has been banging on about the bricks that have been used - totally wrong and do not exactly blend in...

[rachp]

Surely those bricks aren't in their intended end state, I just assumed there is some kind of treatment on them that will be removed??? Agree, they currently look awful. Who knows???

[hpsaucey]

Any piccies for those of us unlikely to be passing?

Intrigued...

HP

[tiddles]

That?s the salt coming out - but even when that has leached out the are still awful (and cheap) bricks

[worldwiser]

I've never seen that quantity of salt coming out of a newly built wall. Anyone have an idea why such a huge amount?

[PnB]

I think the bricks will start to look normal soon, has anyone been working on the site since this corona thing all kicked off? its clearly not finished yet, so people should just relax before writing the whole project off.

I'd also like it if that Chinese place beside it opened again soon, i fancy a decent bit of Choi Mein and Chop Suey.

[micromacromonkey]

I was also wondering about the bricks. You can buy new bricks that try to look 'reclaimed' by having white and reddish paint splodges on them. I assume you're only supposed to use those sparingly though; I wondered if someone had got a bit carried away and made an entire wall out of them.

[nxjen]

The problem has been made worse by the use of a dark coloured mortar instead of a light coloured one

[Carrie]

For HPSaucy - photo of the contender for ugliest building in East Dulwich

[Guest]

Looking at the photograph, these look to have been built by a company called Technocrates.

[fishbiscuits]

Why don't the windows line up?

[wordsworth]

The whole mess is a dogs dinner.

[KidKruger]

The windows do line-up don?t they ?

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From the angle the photo is taken, the top storey windows don't seem to line up with the ones below.

[KidKruger]

Top storey windows appear to line-up fine !

[Lemming]

As mentioned above, the white stuff is efflorescence, salt coming out of the bricks. There are various causes, some down to construction, some unavoidable. Usually it just goes away.

Also worth mentioning that newly laid bricks (whether actual new bricks or reclaimed) can look a whole lot different some time down the line after construction, especially if they're retaining a lot of moisture when laid. A load of reclaimed bricks we used looked like the 1980s game 'breakout' after they were laid. Nearly had a heart attack. They dried out eventually and look great now. So wait and see.

The windows all look lined up to me, apart from the 'unit' on the right where the windows are a couple of courses higher than the other three, this difference also visible along the parapet wall. Looks a little incongruous from the outside, but can't imagine why anyone would do this 'by mistake' (it's more work than making straight lines) so there must be a valid design reason for it somewhere which isn't obvious from the outside.

I don't mind Velfac (I think?) windows myself but I'm not sure if they're the best choice for this design.

On the upside, the mansard roof / loft area on this project looks a whole lot better than nearly all the loft conversions around here, so if you've got one of those and want to criticise this as an eyesore...

[fishbiscuits]

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The rightmost windows look significantly higher than the others to me.

[fishbiscuits]

Perhaps because the road isn't quite flat, so the rightmost "unit" is higher than the rest? Still... looks a bit crap to me.

[KidKruger]

The top storey windows are all in line.

The middle storey windows appear slightly higher to the right, perhaps because the wall they are in is further forward ?

According to photo.

But top floor in line.

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[wordsworth]

They don't align..

it's funny... it's rubbish

[fishbiscuits]

Oh I see.. yes it's the first storey that doesn't align. All very strange.