London’s largest postmodern building? It has to be up there, along with 125 London Wall and the MI6 building (see below) by the same architect, Terry Farrell. Actually, most of what we see at Charing Cross isn’t part of the station at all, but an over-site office development known as Embankment Place. You can still get up close and impersonal with some of the PoMo bits, though, thanks to the characterful walkway that leads into the station from the eastern Golden Jubilee footbridge. Look out for this hilariously 80s clock as you swing round the corner.
You can still get up close and impersonal with some of the PoMo bits, though, thanks to the characterful walkway that leads into the station from the eastern Golden Jubilee footbridge.
Anyone who was of TV-watching age in the early 1980s will immediately recognise the egg cups on top of this building. The architectural ova were a key motif of TV-AM, one of Britain’s pioneering breakfast magazine-style shows. The studios were one of the first London buildings to be designed in a postmodern style, created in 1982 by Terry Farrell (more on him later). Back in the day, those egg cups were decorated in lovely shades of blue and yellow, with further splashes of colour on the cladding. Sadly, the facade is now more muted and tasteful. You can get a sense of the building’s former glory in this excellent article from Dezeen.単語】
From the south-west, Chiswick Roundabout’s leading leisure facility is utterly unremarkable - a dark-brick boredom that looks like a Sainsbury’s without the Nectar Points. But viewed from the north-east, the centre transforms into one of the most eye-scratching examples of postmodernism in town. Peer again at the picture above. It's easy to imagine those brown, spindly tubes are the legs of an alien insectoid, feeding on the building like a facehugger. Still, got to love it though, eh?
ホラー映画のようなポストモダンな「足」がぶら下がっているブレントフォード・ファウンテン・レジャーセンター。 From the south-west, Chiswick Roundabout’s leading leisure facility is utterly unremarkable - a dark-brick boredom that looks like a Sainsbury’s without the Nectar Points.
You know that scene in E.T. where Elliott and the alien are dying in a military field hospital? THAT was the architectural inspiration behind Tower Gateway DLR station. Look:
That’s my theory, anyway. This fun-sized terminal is, without question, the most 1980’s edifice in London. You could build a statue of Kajagoogoo out of Rubik’s Cubes, and it would still look less 80s than this. Long-term plans would see Tower Gateway closed, in favour of a new interchange at Tower Hill. But this building must remain as an 80s-themed nightclub.
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DLR Station Docklands Light Railway、ロンドン東部ドックランズを走る鉄道
Many people hate this James Sterling creation on Bank junction. It has been called unsubtle, childish and crass. Some lament the elegant Mappin & Webb building it replaced in the 1990s. But I have to admit to being rather fond on No 1 Poultry. The striking use of colour really stands out in an area dominated by white Edwardian stonework (and that’s just the outside; the inner court would look gaudy even to Mr Tumble). It is defiantly unsympathetic to its neighbours. And why not? There is excitement and even beauty in contrast. Plus, it does look a little bit like Bagpuss. In 2016 it became one of the first postmodern buildings to gain protected status, when Historic England awarded it a Grade II* listing.
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Poultry 家禽の肉、鶏肉
roundel 小円盤、円形パネル、丸窓、飾りメダル
unsubtle 機微の欠乏
crass 愚鈍な、はなはだしい、ひどい
lament 嘆き悲しむ、哀悼する、悔やむ
fond (…を)好んで、優しい、情け深い、愛におぼれた、甘い
dominate (…を)支配する、圧する、威圧する、(…に)優位を占める、(…で)首位になる
gaudy (下品なほど)けばけばしい、派手で俗っぽい
defiantly 恐れ気もなく、〈平気、大胆〉・恐れ気もなく、反抗的に
unsympathetic 同情のない、冷淡な、共感しないで
【訳】※赤はdeepl訳
3. No 1 Poultry, City of London The pink and cream stripy postmodern facade of number One Poultry with a Bank roundel in front
ピンクとクリームのストライプのポストモダンなファサードを持つNo.1 Poultryと正面の銀行の丸印 Many people hate this James Sterling creation on Bank junction.
多くの人がこのバンクのジャンクションにあるジェームズ・ステアリングの作品を好いていません
多くの人が、Bank junctionにあるこのJames Sterlingの作品を嫌っています。
It has been called unsubtle, childish and crass.
それは機微が欠乏していて、子供っぽくて、愚鈍な感じと言われています。
繊細さに欠ける、子供っぽい、粗野だと言われています。
Some lament the elegant Mappin & Webb building it replaced in the 1990s.
いくつかのビルは1990年代に建て替えられました
1990年代に建てられたMappin & Webb社のエレガントな建物を惜しむ声もあります。
But I have to admit to being rather fond on No 1 Poultry.
しかし私は認めなくてはならない、NO.1のPoultryがかなり好ましいということを
しかし、私はNo.1 Poultryのことがかなり好きです。
The striking use of colour really stands out in an area dominated by white Edwardian stonework (and that’s just the outside; the inner court would look gaudy even to Mr Tumble).
The words “landmark architecture” and “shopping centre” do not often find themselves cohabiting a sentence, unless as part of a marketing fib. Kingston's mighty mall is a genuine exception. The first-time visitor cannot help but be impressed by the Crystal Palace-like arched atrium — supposedly loftier than the nave of Westminster Abbey. The vast stained-glass window further invites cathedral comparisons. Meanwhile, escalator fans shouldn’t miss the central set here, which reckon to be the longest ‘truss’ escalators in the world.
London has one of the most eclectic collections of pumping stations in the world (I assume… I mean, who really keeps track of these things?). The ‘cathedrals of sewage’ at Abbey Mills and Crossness are the best and earliest examples of landmark pumping stations, but the tradition continued into the 1980s. Richard Rogers gave our city an eye-catching drum of a building near Canning Town, painted in his usual mix of primary colours. But it’s this confection on the Isle of Dogs — which blends motifs from Ancient Egypt and my 5-year-old’s toybox — that must win the crown as most exuberant postmodern building.
This storm water pumping station was designed by noted PoMo architect John Outram, whose many achievements include swallowing a thesaurus: “My work has been a rebellion. I refused to live in a city designed by proudly subliterate haptics whose ambition was to reduce it to mere “plant”. I aimed to invent that “meaning” and confirm those epiphanic techniques,” he once sort-of-explained. Whatever it means, I think we can all agree that this is a truly unique building that deserves its Grade II* listed status. Find it on the appropriately named Folly Wall, to the north-east of the Isle of Dogs.
1.雨水のポンプ場、犬の島 Postmodern pumping station on the Isle of Dogs with colourful capitals London has one of the most eclectic collections of pumping stations in the world (I assume… I mean, who really keeps track of these things?).
The ‘cathedrals of sewage’ at Abbey Mills and Crossness are the best and earliest examples of landmark pumping stations, but the tradition continued into the 1980s.
But it’s this confection on the Isle of Dogs — which blends from Ancient Egypt and my 5-year-old’s toybox — that must win the crown as most exuberant postmodern building.
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