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Posted: 08 Sep 2015

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Herzog & De Meuron •
Blavatnik •
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Great Clarendon Street •
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Blavatnik ruins conservation area

Blavatnik ruins conservation area
Blavatnik building hits you in the eyes as you turn the corner from Great Clarendon Street in the Jericho Conservation Area. Tall trees needed here to hide it.
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Blavatnik spoiling the street
8 years ago.
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www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/nov/15/oxford-university-architecture-dreaming-spires-hard-cash

"A cylinder of void rises seven storeys"

(INSPIRED BY AN OLD GASWORKS?)

"The form, say its architects, Herzog and de Meuron, is inspired by the university’s freestanding monuments such as the baroque Radcliffe Camera, but the material is deliberately not of its context, nothing like the neoclassical stone ex-chapel to one side, or the Oxford University Press building, also stone and classical, opposite, or the modest houses of the surrounding streets. The material is high-class curtain walling, a variant of a type seen everywhere.... It creates a privileged inner life wrapped in a distancing exterior."
8 years ago. Edited 4 years ago.
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Jericho carbuncle
4 years ago.

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