Command and Control. The story of the British Capital Authority

[Nick P]

If the series of new building by the BCA aren't in modernist, brutal concrete, I'll be very disappointed.

Depends if Leslie Martin is appointed as chief architect. https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/reviews/lets-demolish-whitehall/8659289.article

Maybe we get something like the modern Maltese Parliament House. On the scale of the Bucharest Palace of the Parliament

 

[Analytical Engine]

If the series of new building by the BCA aren't in modernist, brutal concrete, I'll be very disappointed.

In that case, the architect should be publically flogged. Brutalism is a crime against humanity.

 

[Colonel Grubb]

In that case, the architect should be publically flogged. Brutalism is a crime against humanity.

Gotta keep the British cement industry going with lots of government orders...

 

[Analytical Engine]

Gotta keep the British cement industry going with lots of government orders...

Then decorate it with LIMITLESS ART DECO!

 

[Sam R.]

So based on the ACT, planned for transport that isn’t installed for a century, medium density, full of asbestos, curving roads to nowhere?

 

[Colonel Grubb]

So based on the ACT, planned for transport that isn’t installed for a century, medium density, full of asbestos, curving roads to nowhere?

Yeah, but where are they going to flood for a lake?

 

[nezza]

Yeah, but where are they going to flood for a lake?

I think the Thames is safe

"After the speech we walked back the Commons for the start of the debate. As I listened to the loyal address I looked around the new chamber. The semi-circular layout seems to be lending it to a more collegiate form of debate"

Tony Benn "The Benn Diaries" 1995