Chillaxed Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 This is really just an excuse to express my dislike of the block of flats opposite the ED railway station (and above Keatings). I am still waiting for them to begin cladding the exterior.Anyone have another building in mind? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/29313-worst-building-in-ed/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
StraferJack Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 there is relatively little distinctive looking buildings in the area so "worst" is pretty subjectiveThose flats are pretty dull but no more so than most modern builds everywhere. And certainly no worse than the Police Station. Or the iceland building (nothing to do with the shop brand!)people hate foxtons, but the identikit redbrick, flat building there before them was even worse Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/29313-worst-building-in-ed/#findComment-618075 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DulwichFox Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 StraferJack Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> there is relatively little distinctive looking> buildings in the area so "worst" is pretty> subjective> > Those flats are pretty dull but no more so than> most modern builds everywhere. And certainly no> worse than the Police Station. Or the iceland> building (nothing to do with the shop brand!)> > people hate foxtons, but the identikit redbrick,> flat building there before them was even worseAs I understand it the design of the Police Staion Which once housed Police Horseswas to make it 'Bomb Proof'The narrow windows with the projections would make it 'Blast Proof' from any explosion from anywhereother than directly opposite.Fox. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/29313-worst-building-in-ed/#findComment-618081 Share on other sites More sharing options...
StraferJack Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 other, less-ugly, police stations exists tho, don't they? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/29313-worst-building-in-ed/#findComment-618082 Share on other sites More sharing options...
edhistory Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 I remember discussions when the police station was being built. It was said that it was one of a small network of anti-terrorist "bomb resistant" police stations being built in the Metropolitan Police area.John K Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/29313-worst-building-in-ed/#findComment-618085 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbo1964 Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 One forgets there were bombs going off all over the shop in the 70's. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/29313-worst-building-in-ed/#findComment-618086 Share on other sites More sharing options...
red devil Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 The houses that replaced the timber yard on Barry Road, aka when pastiche vernacular goes wrong... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/29313-worst-building-in-ed/#findComment-618088 Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Pibe Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 streetview links people, pur-leeeease!!! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/29313-worst-building-in-ed/#findComment-618089 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbo1964 Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 I don't mind them.. But there are too many for the space. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/29313-worst-building-in-ed/#findComment-618090 Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Bob* Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 There are a few really lovely loft extensions which have gone-up of late - sympathetically styled in the manner of oversized temporary worksite portacabins. So my vote goes to them - well done. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/29313-worst-building-in-ed/#findComment-618098 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynne Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 the "Dwelling units" just past the Mind shop on Grove Vale get my voteLynne Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/29313-worst-building-in-ed/#findComment-618100 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Max Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 St John's church on Goose Green is a mis-proportioned mish-mash of psuedo-rural pseudo-antiquity, with its ludicrous over-sized spire jammed down onto its roof like a giants' upturned ice cream cone. Its dimensions, its honey stone walls, its trim-prim hedged facade mirror exactly the aspirations of its lower-middle class patrons - each of them aspiring to a rural style as false as that of the church they inhabit.The municipal, from muni (hideous) cipal (unwashed) library grimly squats on one corner of a petrified quadrangle of Victorian rapine: the gin palace, the bank, the church, the library. These sentries from a bygone age pass their customers one between the other in a square death-dance of mutual financial, intellectual and spiritual impoverishment.http://i46.tinypic.com/4h5zf6.jpg Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/29313-worst-building-in-ed/#findComment-618132 Share on other sites More sharing options...
edhistory Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 Ted Max Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> St John's church on Goose Green is a> mis-proportioned mish-mash of psuedo-rural> pseudo-antiquity, with its ludicrous over-sized> spire jammed down onto its roof like a giants'> upturned ice cream cone. Its dimensions, its honey> stone walls, its trim-prim hedged facade mirror> exactly the aspirations of its lower-middle class> patrons - each of them aspiring to a rural style> as false as that of the church they inhabit.I guess you don't know much about our parish church and its history.John K Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/29313-worst-building-in-ed/#findComment-618134 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Max Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 I guess you will snarkily allude to your *special* knowledge, without ever going so far as to share any.Ted M Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/29313-worst-building-in-ed/#findComment-618136 Share on other sites More sharing options...
edhistory Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 Ted Max Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> I guess you will snarkily allude to your *special*> knowledge, without ever going so far as to share> any.> > Ted MYour knowledge of the EDF isn't very good either.John K Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/29313-worst-building-in-ed/#findComment-618141 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Max Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 Can you at least confirm for me I've nailed the etymology of municipal?. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/29313-worst-building-in-ed/#findComment-618142 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonMix Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 From the online etymology dictionary:municipal (adj.) 1540s, from Middle French municipal, from Latin municipalis "of a citizen of a free town, of a free town," also "of a petty town, provincial," from municipium "free town, city whose citizens have the privileges of Roman citizens but are governed by their own laws," from municeps "citizen, inhabitant of a free town." Second element is root of capere "assume, take" (see capable). First element is from munus (plural munia) "service performed for the community, duty, work," also "public spectacle paid for by the magistrate, (gladiatorial) entertainment, gift," from Old Latin moenus "service, duty, burden," from PIE *moi-n-es-, generally taken as a suffixed form of root *mei- "to change, go, move" (Watkins; see mutable); but Tucker says "more probably" from the other PIE root *mei- meaning "bind," so that munia = "obligations" and communis = "bound together." Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/29313-worst-building-in-ed/#findComment-618146 Share on other sites More sharing options...
edhistory Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 Except...The East Dulwich library building itself (and Nunhead library) is not of municiplal origin.John K Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/29313-worst-building-in-ed/#findComment-618152 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Max Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 FUCKIT.Can I have the death-dance? I mean, that is literally what is going on there, isn't it? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/29313-worst-building-in-ed/#findComment-618153 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chillaxed Posted February 19, 2013 Author Share Posted February 19, 2013 Here's my vote:http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=google+maps+grove+vale&ll=51.461641,-0.079994&spn=0.000027,0.019248&hnear=Grove+Vale&gl=uk&safe=on&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=51.461692,-0.080103&panoid=e1D_InfXvuik-qvCaJ43gg&cbp=12,22.23,,0,-24.97El Pibe Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> streetview links people, pur-leeeease!!! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/29313-worst-building-in-ed/#findComment-618162 Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_carnell Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 Crown Househttp://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=google+maps+grove+vale&ll=51.461294,-0.072312&spn=0.000027,0.016844&safe=on&hnear=Grove+Vale&gl=uk&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=51.461335,-0.072025&panoid=zSJb_7jXVkVvGKqAGsHvhg&cbp=12,168.88,,0,2.52 Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/29313-worst-building-in-ed/#findComment-618165 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Townleygreen Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 god, Crown House is really ugly...good nomination, David Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/29313-worst-building-in-ed/#findComment-618174 Share on other sites More sharing options...
camberwell70 Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 There are very few buildings of note in ED. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/29313-worst-building-in-ed/#findComment-618185 Share on other sites More sharing options...
edhistory Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 If you check the English Heritage register you will see that East Dulwich has four listed buildings.Camberwell has three, but one of these is actually in East Dulwich.John K Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/29313-worst-building-in-ed/#findComment-618187 Share on other sites More sharing options...
camberwell70 Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 I have just checked the English Heritage register and Camberwell has no fewer than 104 listed buldings! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/29313-worst-building-in-ed/#findComment-618191 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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