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Re: Mile-high building for London? : Fri Jul 05, 2013 12:58 pm  
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I'd never heard of it until I was poking around the Mornington Crescent area (*) and suddenly came across this huge painted thing with Egyptian columns up the front.


Well of course we can't let this comment pass without an honorary mention of Temple Mill in Leeds and a whole article dedicated to it http://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/news/temple-mill-leeds/, pure unadulterated Victorian entrepreneurship sticking two fingers up at his rivals in the city and building in a totally bizarre and unnecessary design , just because he had the money and time and will to do so - not forgetting that he then made a fortune out of the manufacturing process therein.

Temple Mill is in Holbeck, an area south of the city that housed huge swathes of the population in cramped back-to-back houses but also contained much of the heavy industry that the city grew to prominence in, the mills and the Hunslet Engine Works for instance so it was an intensively developed, probably filthy, industrialised area - why the hell would you build an Egyptian temple in the middle of it :D

Compare and contrast to any modern industrial estate you like and you'll see nothing of a modern equivalent either in design or simple "Balls to the rest of you" attitude amongst business leaders today.
El Barbudo wrote:
I'd never heard of it until I was poking around the Mornington Crescent area (*) and suddenly came across this huge painted thing with Egyptian columns up the front.


Well of course we can't let this comment pass without an honorary mention of Temple Mill in Leeds and a whole article dedicated to it http://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/news/temple-mill-leeds/, pure unadulterated Victorian entrepreneurship sticking two fingers up at his rivals in the city and building in a totally bizarre and unnecessary design , just because he had the money and time and will to do so - not forgetting that he then made a fortune out of the manufacturing process therein.

Temple Mill is in Holbeck, an area south of the city that housed huge swathes of the population in cramped back-to-back houses but also contained much of the heavy industry that the city grew to prominence in, the mills and the Hunslet Engine Works for instance so it was an intensively developed, probably filthy, industrialised area - why the hell would you build an Egyptian temple in the middle of it :D

Compare and contrast to any modern industrial estate you like and you'll see nothing of a modern equivalent either in design or simple "Balls to the rest of you" attitude amongst business leaders today.
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Re: Mile-high building for London? : Fri Jul 05, 2013 1:15 pm  
It is remarkable looking at 19th century industrial architecture just how many flourishes were added – even to chimneys.
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Re: Mile-high building for London? : Fri Jul 05, 2013 2:29 pm  
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It is remarkable looking at 19th century industrial architecture just how many flourishes were added – even to chimneys.



Well funny you should mention that :D

Just a short way along the river from the Temple Mill in Leeds we have a pair of rather splendid Italian Capaniles although they were never bell towers but factory chimneys for "Joe Soaps", or Joseph Watson's soap works, they still stand although the main factory is long gone - but two factory chimneys built to resemble very intricate and highly decorative Italian bell towers which would hardly have been visible in the industrial landscape of the time anyway, indeed its only in recent decades that they have become as prominent as they are now.
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It is remarkable looking at 19th century industrial architecture just how many flourishes were added – even to chimneys.



Well funny you should mention that :D

Just a short way along the river from the Temple Mill in Leeds we have a pair of rather splendid Italian Capaniles although they were never bell towers but factory chimneys for "Joe Soaps", or Joseph Watson's soap works, they still stand although the main factory is long gone - but two factory chimneys built to resemble very intricate and highly decorative Italian bell towers which would hardly have been visible in the industrial landscape of the time anyway, indeed its only in recent decades that they have become as prominent as they are now.
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Re: Mile-high building for London? : Fri Jul 05, 2013 6:57 pm  
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For those of you interested in futuristic city projects, or just want to get to see the world from angles you don't normally see then this site

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/index.php

Is just about the most comprehensive resource on the planet.

The photography from some people is simply stunning

a sample in this thread of the standard on show

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1636110
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