morning bump for this crucial investigation.
― ledge, Thursday, 23 September 2021 07:58 (two years ago) link
Any recommendations for Oxford(shire) Brutalist/Modernist buildings?
I've had the slightly wine-fuelled idea that I should compile myself a tour.
― djh, Wednesday, 20 October 2021 20:16 (two years ago) link
St. Catherine's College, the Denys Wilkinson Building, the Garden building at St. Hildas, the Florey Building, the Margery Fry House for a start?
― carson dial, Wednesday, 20 October 2021 20:42 (two years ago) link
DWB is a banger
wolfson college too?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 21:32 (two years ago) link
Maybe a little recent for you but the Bishop Edward King Chapel, Ripon College (in Cuddeston, just outside Oxford) is somewhere I’d like to visit.
― Tim, Thursday, 21 October 2021 06:58 (two years ago) link
St Cross building?
― woof, Thursday, 21 October 2021 09:39 (two years ago) link
Wadham college library?
Not brutalist but tooling around in google maps I just noticed the Blavatnik School of Government building next to Freud on Walton St which is pretty neat and passed me by (unsurprisingly as I haven't lived in oxford for over twenty years).
― namaste darkness my old friend (ledge), Thursday, 21 October 2021 10:50 (two years ago) link
There was a time (when I first moved to Oxford) when I thought Frevd's was a place of wonder. And then it suddenly seemed to be a waste of an amazing space. Haven't been for years, so don't know how it is currently being used. I guess it is airy?
― djh, Thursday, 21 October 2021 19:03 (two years ago) link
I was never 'cool' or clued in enough to go there much at all, glad it's still there though.
― namaste darkness my old friend (ledge), Thursday, 21 October 2021 19:21 (two years ago) link
This looks good for mooching:
https://bluecrowmedia.com/products/modern-oxford-map
― djh, Saturday, 17 February 2024 10:50 (two months ago) link
looks good, I bet there are some hidden gems. the monstrously mysterious denys wilkson building may have been a formative influence on my penchant for brutalism, along with the nazi fortifications in guernsey, where we often holidayed.I was disappointed to find out (online, not in person) that the nosebag had closed. is georgina's in the covered market still open? google says yes but no reference on the covered market website.
― organ doner (ledge), Saturday, 17 February 2024 12:10 (two months ago) link
Did my PhD in the DWB. sat at the top of the tower for the last year.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 17 February 2024 13:31 (two months ago) link
was it a phd in opening a dark portal to the non euclidean realm of the elder gods?
― organ doner (ledge), Saturday, 17 February 2024 13:47 (two months ago) link
I was disappointed to find out (online, not in person) that the nosebag had closed. is georgina's in the covered market still open? google says yes but no reference on the covered market website.
Was never a fan of the Nosebag and didn't mourn its passing.
Georgina's is still there, although the character of the Covered Market is very different now, ledge. There are two pop-up pubs now, for example.
Oxford Cheese Company is my main reason to visit it these days.
It's great that the Grapes is back open on George Street, complete with 3D bunch of grapes sign. Too bad they've taken away the wooden divides, but they now have a turntable and a stack of records which you can leaf through and ask them to play.
― Grandpont Genie, Saturday, 17 February 2024 14:33 (two months ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 17 February 2024 14:45 (two months ago) link
x-post - the Covered Market is a curious thing. Like, there's a wine shop (an off-shoot of Eynsham Wine Cellars) and a pizza place side-by-side, with shared tables and a seeming agreement that you'd probably buy from both ... but it doesn't quite work with the utter grimness of the nearest toilets.
― djh, Sunday, 18 February 2024 21:59 (two months ago) link