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our civic centre
is ugly, defunct, derelict,
breaking skyline, fields and trees
we must raze it to the ground
affect a transformation
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Think all the council planners in Britain sat in the same ‘ugly building’ lecture in the 60’s/70’s.
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It was a time of architectural madness. Thank goodness lot of those buildings have since been demolished, before they collapsed of their own accord.
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They’ve started knocking some down in the cities up here – happy days!
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Where’s “up here”?
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I’m near Glasgow, but in Dundee they’ve starting knocking down an eyesore. Aberdeen town planners are still putting up horrific building and hiding the nice Victorian ones 😦
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Ah well, at least you have better politicians than us, even if the town planners are dicks.
I feel sorry for Scotland, being glued to England – and I was born and bred in England.
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and feel sorry for half of the English who are lumped with them. We’ve still got a chance of another referendum. Would that even be better? Who knows how it’ll turn out. I was just getting over the shock of Tories getting back in – then we left the EU. The Trump thing terrifies me. Anything is possible 😦
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I’d like to see Scotland gain independance. My eldest daughter hatched a plan. She said that if Scotland gained independance, she’d move there – something about my mum being Scottish, so she’d be allowed residency. I had to tell her that although she was Scottish, she was a citizen of Canada (long story). She’s very disappointed.
If Trump gets in it will put the whole world in terrible danger. It makes me go cold just thinking about it.
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Nice one! The tanka, not the building. It’s quite square isn’t it… Hm…
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It’s disgusting. The council wasted a huge amount of money on installing solar panels in the roof just before the building was scrapped, so they decided in April (the month that it was supposed to be demolished) to try to sell these solar panels before demolition. Nobody wants them. It all smacks of corruption. At about 1.5 km away, that building is the one blot on my landscape, jutting up over the skyline.
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awesome
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Thank you 🙂
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Do we call that Brutalist, in the hope giving the syle a term will legitimise it and make it feel less blody ugly? Where’s that wrecking ball? 🙂
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I have a fantasy about creeping in at dead of night, and chipping away at the cornerstone – dedicated to some local polital powderpuff – then running away, and watching it collapse into the river – not that it would. I think I wrote a poem about it…
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It would be a great symbolism – chipping away at the corner stone, watching it fall. Lovely image 🙂
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Maybe I should have linked that poem to this one 🙂
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You can always update it, adding the link 🙂
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That would mean having to scroll through my poems and find it, and I don’t even know what it was called (groan) 🙂
Maybe I will, though. I need to tidy my blog and scrap some of the crap.
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Haha! 🙂
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🙂
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Marvelous.
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I trust you’re not referring to that disgusting concrete monstrosity 🙂
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Not at all, I was merely complimenting your poetic word choice. 🙂
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Thasnk you 🙂 🙂
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Wonderful write!
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Thank you Sumyanna 🙂
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You’re welcome 🙂
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🙂
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Go get the solar panels – or are they crap too ?
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There has to be some reason why nobody wants them – and I can’t use them; I’m in rented accommodation.
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