There are some architectural details I find endlessly fascinating. Windows and doors fall into that category, but so do staircases and corridors.
This staircase can be found at the Tate St Ives, and is pretty much a black and white affair even when you see it in full colour.
At a stoplight, this caught my attention. It’s “wrong” bc the angle of the peak is too small, making the decorative motif too tall.
So what, right?
This is an old building, c 1770. With considerable wealth coming though trade (slave and other), status symbols were common. In architecture, they came from pattern books.
This guy (surely a man) both did and didn’t follow the book. I wonder if people delighted in his deviance or ridiculed him for it.
@catherinezipf@histodons@histodon If you think this is bad, it’s nothing compared to Mount Vernon. The asymmetry of the land-facing façade is almost laughable. At a glance, it seems okay but once you study it for a bit, you’ll never look at it the same way again.
I appreciate this is not a building many people will like. The architects are Robinson Green Beretta, which is especially interesting because they have done a ton of local churches. This design is definitely a la Corb, but the sculptural quality is well in keeping with other RGB work.
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