On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:16:09 -0800 (PST), MIG
wrote:
On 19 Nov, 09:10, Bruce wrote:
Admittedly, it was a massive statement. *The "Arch" became a familiar,
but ultimately pointless landmark. *

I've always felt the same about Canary Wharf Jubilee station, which
everyone but me seems to rave over, but which I would consider to be
an ostentatious sculpture rather than architecture.

It's a rectangular concrete hole, probably created by pumping water
out of a dock, and fails to protect its occupants from the cold in
winter. Putting a sculpture on top of it doesn't make it more fit for
purpose.


Yes, I agree. It is a fine structure and a very impressive piece of
architecture. But totally unnecessary for a Tube station. Those tiny
Tube trains seem so out of place in such a grand design.

Another is Westminster, on the same Jubilee line. As a civil
engineer, I find it a most impressive monument to below-ground civil
engineering, almost on a par with a major bridge. But I do wonder
whether such a huge (and hugely expensive) hole in the ground was
absolutely necessary.

Bruce wrote:

Another is Westminster, on the same Jubilee line. As a civil
engineer, I find it a most impressive monument to below-ground civil
engineering, almost on a par with a major bridge. But I do wonder
whether such a huge (and hugely expensive) hole in the ground was
absolutely necessary.

It's supposed to be particularly bomb-proof, so maybe it is neccessary. I
imagine Westminster and Canary Wharf to be the only underground stations
where a bomb could go off without even permanently deafening everyone on the
same platform.

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On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:55:48 -0000, "Basil Jet"
wrote:

Bruce wrote:

Another is Westminster, on the same Jubilee line. As a civil
engineer, I find it a most impressive monument to below-ground civil
engineering, almost on a par with a major bridge. But I do wonder
whether such a huge (and hugely expensive) hole in the ground was
absolutely necessary.

It's supposed to be particularly bomb-proof, so maybe it is neccessary.


Interesting. Not mentioned in any of the technical articles I have
read, but that's hardly surprising.


I imagine Westminster and Canary Wharf to be the only underground stations
where a bomb could go off without even permanently deafening everyone on the
same platform.


I'm sure you're right. But if all Tube stations had to be built in
that way, we could afford only a very few of them.

Bruce wrote:

I imagine Westminster and Canary Wharf to be the only underground
stations where a bomb could go off without even permanently
deafening everyone on the same platform.

I'm sure you're right. But if all Tube stations had to be built in
that way, we could afford only a very few of them.

Westminster station has MP's offices on top of it.

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We are the Strasbourg. Referendum is futile.

On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:25:51 -0000, "Basil Jet"
wrote:
Bruce wrote:

I imagine Westminster and Canary Wharf to be the only underground
stations where a bomb could go off without even permanently
deafening everyone on the same platform.

I'm sure you're right. But if all Tube stations had to be built in
that way, we could afford only a very few of them.

Westminster station has MP's offices on top of it.


Yes, I realise that. I still wonder whether the expense of such a
grand structure for the station was justifiable.

Bruce wrote:
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:17:57 +0000, Tom Anderson
wrote:
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Bruce wrote:
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:09:54 -0000, "Basil Jet"
wrote:
Since Euston/St Pancras is to be the gateway to The North and the gateway to
The Continent, how about a Wembley-style arch stretching from Euston to St
Pancras, with gondolas hanging from it? That would show them uppity
Wuppertalers, and I think it might be cheaper than a subterranean
travelator.
Until I read your post, I doubted that it would have been possible for
anyone to come up with an even more tacky idea for Euston Road than a
21st century restaurant-and-nightclub-housing semi-replica of a
grotesque and entirely pointless 19th century propylaeum.

It now appears that I was wrong. ;-)
But it could be held up by fibreglass replica caryatids! Perhaps modelled
after the celebrated Ms Katie Price?


Oh, joy. Not. :-(

Someone remind me what she is famous for, apart from being famous.

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As through this world I've rambled, I've met plenty of funny men,
Some rob you with a sixgun, some with a fountain pen.

Woody Guthrie

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Martin Edwards wrote:

Bruce wrote:
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:17:57 +0000, Tom Anderson
wrote:
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Bruce wrote:
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:09:54 -0000, "Basil Jet"
wrote:
Since Euston/St Pancras is to be the gateway to The North and the gateway to
The Continent, how about a Wembley-style arch stretching from Euston to St
Pancras, with gondolas hanging from it? That would show them uppity
Wuppertalers, and I think it might be cheaper than a subterranean
travelator.
Until I read your post, I doubted that it would have been possible for
anyone to come up with an even more tacky idea for Euston Road than a
21st century restaurant-and-nightclub-housing semi-replica of a
grotesque and entirely pointless 19th century propylaeum.

It now appears that I was wrong. ;-)
But it could be held up by fibreglass replica caryatids! Perhaps modelled
after the celebrated Ms Katie Price?


Oh, joy. Not. :-(

Someone remind me what she is famous for, apart from being famous.


Big tits

--
Graeme Wall

This address not read, substitute trains for rail
Transport Miscellany at www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail

On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:37:38 +0000, Martin Edwards
wrote:
Bruce wrote:
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:17:57 +0000, Tom Anderson
wrote:
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Bruce wrote:
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:09:54 -0000, "Basil Jet"
wrote:
Since Euston/St Pancras is to be the gateway to The North and the gateway to
The Continent, how about a Wembley-style arch stretching from Euston to St
Pancras, with gondolas hanging from it? That would show them uppity
Wuppertalers, and I think it might be cheaper than a subterranean
travelator.
Until I read your post, I doubted that it would have been possible for
anyone to come up with an even more tacky idea for Euston Road than a
21st century restaurant-and-nightclub-housing semi-replica of a
grotesque and entirely pointless 19th century propylaeum.

It now appears that I was wrong. ;-)
But it could be held up by fibreglass replica caryatids! Perhaps modelled
after the celebrated Ms Katie Price?


Oh, joy. Not. :-(

Someone remind me what she is famous for, apart from being famous.


Acting as though she was the Queen of Chavs?