Monday, December 14, 2009

Buildings in Use.....or then again, maybe not...


Busy day....a (not very good) shot of some of the action of the 'Buildings in Use' final poster presentation that's eaten up most of the day. Just in case you're interested, the brief is for groups of Building Surveying students to find new, innovative and financially viable uses for an existing down-at-heel local building. This year it was the Gibson Street Baths.....a gently decaying Victorian (ex) swimming pool/public baths/wash house a few hundred yards away from the campus. The boys and girls did some impressive work, but the bad news is there were great ideas there that'll unfortunately probably never get acted upon by the semi-fictional client.....no names, no pack drill!

Jeez.....that was serious stuff, not sure what happened there (think I definitely need a holiday!) I know, how about building your own snowflake, that sounds a bit fluffy with a seasonal twist.......


.....you can snip your own here without all that nasty mess on the carpet. I've already done one so it's an early bath for me! Roll on Friday!

5 comments:

b1tchesbru said...

Just heard today that one of the local Victorian psychiatric hospitals has been bulldozed. It was a gorgeous building. Unfit for use as a modern hospital, but it really should have been saved for something. Feels like an important part of our heritage has disappeared...

Anyway, by the looks of things you and I have been up to similar crafty things tonight. Will try out the snowflake tomorrow I think!

Jon Storey said...

I am sure that I have been past the Gibson Street Baths, but I can't visualise the building. The are so many wonderful buildings that have been dropped, even just in Newcastle.

It was so refreshing in the late seventies that attitudes started to change a little up here when the John Dobson? terrace in Grainger Street? was preserved.

A little more imagination from our developers and planners please...!

sleepyduck said...

Good shot - plenty of interesting characters. I shall make no comment on redevelopment, that would only raise my blood pressure...

impoftheyard said...

I get annoyed watching beautiful buildings rot too. I'm going to cheer myself up with a snowflake...

chaiselongue said...

Yes, I get angry too about this too, but I'll try not to at this time of night! I'm amazed how smart your students look! Someone will surely want to use their ideas. At the uni where I taught the students looked much more, well studenty - arts students, I suppose!

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