New University Building

[Jedi Shrimper]

This was in the Echo the other day, any thoughts...

http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/loc...ry_and_putting_up_eyesores_like_this/?ref=rss

While the guy has some good points about conserving the victorian buildings in Southend, picking on the new student accomodation seems like picking on new architecture for the sake of it, ie new is bad, old is good.

Well if we had that attitude nothing would ever get built, even the victorian buildings were new once.

Now I don't mind the new accomodation block (also, only the old college building was knocked down to build it.), it's not the best or most cutting edge architecture but there's certainly been worse (hello Victoria Plaza, The Royals, New Odeon and the old 60's towerblocks etc), and I don't mind the new College/University buildings either.

I think they add to the diversity of architecture of the town, do we want a timewarp town stuck in the victorian age, with some bland modern buildings or one that shows ever evolving character. Some of the best parts of London are where old meets new. So yes, preserve the good old buildings, but don't stop trying to put up new architecture.

Here is the building in question...

 

[Pubey]

I'd rather see something like that than the 'faux red-brick' buildings that go up everywhere (including those ones you've mentioned). It's definitely not the best 'contemporary' student building I've seen. But many Southend residents seem to hark back to the glory days of victorian southend, when in the end they need to take their rose-tinted (I'm starting to hate that phrase) glasses off and look at what's happening to the town... it's dying on it's arse.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Any opinions on the author of this piece - Jim Worsdale?

Runaround now!

G-G-G-G-G-G-Go!

Watch your mouth son or I'll be down there to give you a dry slap.

 

[canveyshrimper]

Any opinions on the author of this piece - Jim Worsdale?

Runaround now!

G-G-G-G-G-G-Go!

Watch your mouth son or I'll be down there to give you a dry slap.

Blimey, it's Kent Shrimper. :stunned:

 

[Cricko]

Blimey, it's Kent Shrimper. :stunned:

No Harry he looks like his younger brother.:)

PS: I don't like the building at all..bring back the Victorian ones.;)

 

[Pubey]

No Harry he looks like his younger brother.:)

PS: I don't like the building at all..bring back the Victorian ones.;)

just because you like those nice modern Victorian buildings!

 

[canveyshrimper]

just because you built those nice modern Victorian buildings!

Edited for accuracy.

 

[canveyshrimper]

No Harry he looks like his younger brother.:)

PS: I don't like the building at all..bring back the Victorian ones.;)

:D True mate, on both counts.

 

[Kent Shrimper]

Blimey, it's Kent Shrimper. :stunned:

No Harry he looks like his younger brother.:)

PS: I don't like the building at all..bring back the Victorian ones.;)

Now Now old people, i will send someone round to tuck you in and give you your medication ;)

 

[Smudger]

It looks like the 60's/70's towerblocks that everywhere else is tearing down, not building.....

 

[Davros]

i suppose it looks ok, as its very fashionable now i guess, but will look a but silly in 20 years time!

 

[Uncle Leo]

This was in the Echo the other day, any thoughts...

Asking my sister, who lives in Gordon Road and has an eight week old baby, she just wishes they'd hurry the **** up and finish it.

 

[Mad Cyril]

It looks like the 60's/70's towerblocks that everywhere else is tearing down, not building.....

I think the Council are opting for architecture which willl attract those Eastern Europeans who defected INTO East Germany, possibly because the council believes they work harder and cause less trouble.

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Poll added.

 

[BLUEBLOOD]

I can't believe i'm the only one to date to vote that its terrible

Is a ****ing hideous monstrosity, if it were a bird it'd be up Seymours at 2am on a Saturday night looking for a shag

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

The building will look old and dated within 5 years, but my attention was more taken by this sentence:

MY cousin Albert, a skilled mechanic who ran an old-fashioned garage and filling station in a rural stretch of Essex for many years, reckons man has become far too clever and technology will be the downfall of future generations.

Surely a far more interesting feature would be an interview with this modern nostradamus. The Echo needs to contain more views of such characters and maybe a bit more about lizard people.

 

[BLUEBLOOD]

but my attention was more taken by this sentence

Can anyone else just picture some old Wurzel from the North-East of the county stting on a tractor with a bit of straw in his mouth rambling incoherently to himself :D

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Can anyone else just picture some old Wurzel from the North-East of the county stting on a tractor with a bit of straw in his mouth rambling incoherently to himself :D

I don't think he'd trust tractors so, no.

 

[Crawliano]

They've missed a trick here:

(Sorry but my knowledge of Nazi culture isn't that good)

What a site as you venture into town...

 

[Davros]

i see they have finally named the architect!