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Euston Arch to be rebuilt as nightclub
On Sep 24, 2:37*am, Tom Barry wrote:
I'm horrified to find myself agreeing with 'Bruce' here, although the blasted word 'iconic' is overused, as ever. *Euston works very well as a station if you're coming from the underground (but rather less well if you're on foot or bus) and is an excellent railway station. *Far from being a deliberate snub to the past, is in many ways a 1960s reworking of what the LSWR did at Waterloo 40 years earlier, for much the same reason. Waterloo has been a great station. The next "rebuild" gives some cause for concern. I doubt it will be sympathetic. The original position of the Arch was somewhere towards the platform side of the current hall, if memory serves (not that I remember the old Euston). The arch needed to be moved. As for 'concrete commies', the demolition of the Arch was authorised by Harold Macmillan. *That statement alone betrays that this is a political, not an architectural or usability matter. IMHO Macmillan is NOT a hero. His government failed on a number of fronts. Not, least public disdain resulting from arrogance, and moral lapses, gave Britain the Harold Wilson years. |
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