Great British Road Journeys - Buckinghamshire - Buckingham to Wendover Ep. 24

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16 күн бұрын

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This week we're off to Buckinghamshire, a place full of oddities... devils in boots, rubber ducks on road sides, Aylesbury...
Using a copy of the 1923 Michelin Guide, I'll be travelling the country to see what remains and what's changed since it's publication. The guide offers suggestions on thing to see and where to stay all with the goal of getting you out there and exploring in your motor vehicle.
**TRW Automotive Aylesbury, full photo collection by Harry Seager** www.flickr.com/photos/landie_...
*Why not visit these places*
Buckingham Old Gaol - www.buckinghamoldgaol.org.uk/
The Bell Inn - thebell-hotel.org/
St Johns Schorne's Holy Well - www.mkheritage.org.uk/archive...
Bucks Railway Centre - bucksrailcentre.org/
Bucks County Council - www.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/

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@kabongpope 14 күн бұрын

Jon proving once again that he's out standing in his field

@tonys1636 14 күн бұрын

By standing in front of a Dungheap.

@redboyjan 14 күн бұрын

@@tonys1636 in a field

@obroni 14 күн бұрын

My priest always warned me that if I pumped and pumped and pumped, the devil would appear.

@simonneep8413 11 күн бұрын

That sounds almost counterintuitive, although I guess it depends on whether said priest was present for the pumping...

@mariemccann5895 8 күн бұрын

@@simonneep8413 Probably was when he wasn't getting his organ stuck in a hymn.

@AwesomeAd64 14 күн бұрын

Another great episode of Rail Shenanigans!

@barbelmeister 14 күн бұрын

😂😂

@emdB67 14 күн бұрын

Whew! A lucky thing that I just happen to like trains. 🙃

@chriswade7470 14 күн бұрын

Verney Junction was the most northerly point on the Metropolitan Railway

@Vacbear58 14 күн бұрын

If I am not mistaken Verney Junction was the original terminus of the Metropolitan Line, now part of London Underground.

@tonys1636 14 күн бұрын

Metropolitan Railway then, one of the last steam hauled underground railways to be taken over when London Underground was formed, never part of UERL, the infamous dodgy American businessman, Charles Tyson Yerkes never got his slippery, greasy fingers on it.

@MRTransportVideos 6 күн бұрын

@@tonys1636 Now, we won;t be having any slanderous talk about Charles Tyson Yerkes - without him, Jago Hazzard would be out of a job! #Satire

@assistantto007 14 күн бұрын

Grace Bros ! I'm freeeeee.

@user-gp9bt6fy4b 14 күн бұрын

My first thoughts as well.

@TheFunkadelicFan 14 күн бұрын

Old Mr Grace doesn't get about much anymore.

@haggielady 14 күн бұрын

I wonder if they actually named the fictional store after the actual store. Does anyone know?

@lxtechmangood9503 14 күн бұрын

Not seen young mr grace for a while, must be in another office with his secretary!😊

@TheFunkadelicFan 13 күн бұрын

@@lxtechmangood9503 No, you must be thinking of young Mr Grace. Old Mr Grace is never seen!

@millstonebarn 14 күн бұрын

I can't get enough railway content on this road-oriented series.

@GRAHAMAUS 14 күн бұрын

I was standing on a corner In Winslow, Buckinghamshire, and such a fine sight to see it's a girl my lord, in a clapped-out Ford, slowing down to find a place to pee...

@David_Crayford 14 күн бұрын

Take It Sleazy - The Beagles.

@HSTHoward 14 күн бұрын

Lots of railway in this video, I approve 😎

@kevinrayner5812 14 күн бұрын

Then he should have mentioned Wendover was a junction of sorts with a freight rail link to the RAF camp at Halton. Just old enough to remember it working.

@srednivashtar5432 14 күн бұрын

The first time I visited Wendover was a brief stop at the train station in 1998, before a short, deeply foreboding bus journey to the nearby RAF Halton to start my basic training. I next went back to Wendover ten years later to find it was still 1998.

@martinelwood3903 12 күн бұрын

Fewer pubs now.

@justwords3882 14 күн бұрын

My car also had the weathered steel finsh! Nice to see good old British manufacturing is still alive.

@kevinbell9255 14 күн бұрын

I was the Project Engineer for the construction of that bridge at Verney Junction (among others!) Nice to see it in you video. I claim no ownership of the drainage I was purely in charge of the structures!

@kevinbell9255 14 күн бұрын

I commented too soon, I also managed the construction of Winslow Station! The Bell Inn was our local and the pies are amazing!

@SpikeMatthews 14 күн бұрын

Nice to know Aylesbury still impresses...

@notrut 14 күн бұрын

Aylesbury which had the vile MP David Lidington who quelled the news of Asian gang rape attacks on underage girls.

@MHerbie53 14 күн бұрын

Now I know why the pub in Winslow on the way to North Marston was called the devil in the boot.

@twocvbloke 14 күн бұрын

Gotta love a slab-sided concrete building built in the cold war with a bunker in the basement that'll be flattened with all inside had the canned sunshine ever been dropped cos slab-sided buildings love having extra-strong pressure-waves hitting them... :P

@GalacticGamingYT13 14 күн бұрын

My favourite episode because my bus was then one in the background in Aylesbury 😂

@David_Crayford 14 күн бұрын

Thanks for another *Quacking* episode, Jon. I think this has been a good week for nearly everybody in the UK. It's pronounced *jail* but you already knew that.

@rochellehewston9367 14 күн бұрын

Loved the healing water, not suitable for drinking. This is the closest journey to my location, you have undertaken. I know all the locations you talked about very well, but I still learned some new facts, so thank you John

@bignosemac1 14 күн бұрын

There's always room for a crap pun followed by a "ba-dumm tssssch" rimshot. Keep up the good work Jon.

@ianhopping105 14 күн бұрын

I live... well exist, in Aylesbury. You actually talked the place up.

@kevinrayner5812 14 күн бұрын

No mention on the ducks?

@alexg1778 13 күн бұрын

I could not live in Ay for love nor money. The roadworks are constant and _everywhere._

@kevinrayner5812 13 күн бұрын

@@alexg1778 I very rarely go to Aylesbury. Just about the worst place I know of for road lay out. I avoid the place at all costs.

@alex-E7WHU 12 күн бұрын

I lived there for a few years, on the Rotherhams estate. I liked it 👍

@MichaelAbbott-sl2di 14 күн бұрын

Almost £5 for a load of bread. I almost fell off my chair. Definitely not wicked, sweet, awesome. Great vid. Hope your well John. Sunday complete ❤

@kevinrayner5812 14 күн бұрын

I laughed my socks off when I heard all the opposition to HS2 from the residents of Wendover. I have a motorway at the end of my road. Now you know what it is like.

@CharityAngelSpectrum 12 күн бұрын

I admit - I swore at that, and I'm used to ridiculous gluten free prices

@FastAsFunk 14 күн бұрын

Nice one Jon. But Gaol. Gowl...? Surely it's pronounced the same as Jail...???

@dfluff 14 күн бұрын

Seconded. My home town of Abingdon also had an "Old Gaol" (which was a leisure centre in my day, now posh flats) and that was pronounced the same as Jail.

@llynellyn 14 күн бұрын

Yup, it's the same word, jail is just the modern spelling.

@Goldie644 14 күн бұрын

@@llynellyn More the American misspelling which has made its way back across the Atlantic :(

@InAMinMaths 14 күн бұрын

I think this is his humour guys…

@A-se2ur 14 күн бұрын

Means something rather different in Ireland. You would rather be inside a gowl than inside a gaol.

@opiejaye 13 күн бұрын

I had to do jury duty in Aylesbury many moons ago. It certainly is a place that exists.

@DrRusty5 14 күн бұрын

Grace Bros!.... "Are you being served"

@jacobedmonds305 14 күн бұрын

I’m from Quainton. And I’m disappointed you didn’t visit the windmill. It’s a really interesting piece of history. Well done on another great video.

@tedioustotoro4885 14 күн бұрын

Same. I’m also sad that he didn’t talk at all about Waddesdon despite the road map at the start showing that he drove through it

@NickDavies75 14 күн бұрын

At least the rail centre got a good recommendation - one of our favourite days out (esp the ride on train at VAMES). Shame Wendover got a bit of flak as it's a nice little place with an excellent butchers.

@raynarnslr1966 14 күн бұрын

Had dinner, had pudding sat down and up popped Auto Shenanigans. Sunday is complete! Safe travels Jon

@nemo6686 14 күн бұрын

With the Grace Brothers connection I really think we should've seen you being served at the Bell Inn.

@martinh4982 14 күн бұрын

I think he's a bit too young to get the reference, but I'm free!

@David_Crayford 14 күн бұрын

Remember he is driving.

@nemo6686 14 күн бұрын

@@martinh4982 Giving away the age of John's audience - poor chap!

@williamc6774 14 күн бұрын

Classic episode featuring places nobody goes to nor care about, what more can one ask for? 😂

@Sarge084 14 күн бұрын

I used to travel the A41 a lot back in the last century. Surprised you didn't point out some of the old airfields, one where research *was* being done into some revolutionary new aircraft, or rocket, engine, and the other airfield where ejection seat makers Martin-Baker have a test facility, both visible from the A41.

@landroversforever 13 күн бұрын

Martin Baker are based at Chalgrove which isn't anywhere near the A41.... or have they got another place too?

@downloadablepic 13 күн бұрын

I'm presuming they are referring to Westcott with rocket testing and the old runway.

@simontay4851 12 күн бұрын

You used to travel ON the A41...

@stephenyates962 14 күн бұрын

Another fwickedsweetawesome video, Jon. The transition at the end made me chuckle 😆 Special healing water you can't drink?! Hmm...🤔

@PoxyMoxon97 14 күн бұрын

Bugger it John, me and the mrs have missed you 3 times now, the A41(M), Berko (where we're from) and now through Aylesbury (where we live) 😂😂😂 We love your videos, they're fantastic

@TheMish65 14 күн бұрын

Besides my wife you are the only person who asks how I am every time I see you. Cheers for that and keep up the good work. 😆

@2760ade 13 күн бұрын

But just like your wife, he doesn't actually care!🤣

@TheMish65 12 күн бұрын

@@2760ade True but it the thought that counts 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@adamjolley8552 14 күн бұрын

I like this video so I pressed the button specifically for that 👉🏻

@nealepaterson3496 14 күн бұрын

I also liked this video, and I also pressed the button specifically for that...

@charlottelarimore9261 14 күн бұрын

U say it all the time

@adamjolley8552 14 күн бұрын

@@charlottelarimore9261 I certainly try

@haggielady 14 күн бұрын

If he didn't say it, we would wonder what was wrong with him.

@GLH8 14 күн бұрын

6:37 for an office block, I quite like it

@ivanoffw 14 күн бұрын

Probably the best looking New Brutalism structure built, and normally I find them offensive to look at.

@chrisogrady28 14 күн бұрын

I love it

@simontay4851 12 күн бұрын

You like it? What is wrong with you! Its a disgusting monstrosity! It looks like a soviet prizon.

@terryhearttea789 14 күн бұрын

6:23 "We need to get back on track!' Boom. Boom. Tish! LOL I used to live in Shrivenham in the 90s. I am hoping you will pass by. You have already done the Swindon Magic Roundabout, which is in town. I don't think you have done the Uffington White Horse yet. Nearby, I use to like driving on the B4507 for fun. Hoping the guide book takes you there.

@JohnSmithShields 14 күн бұрын

It's almost like the was a small rail based disagreement in the 1960's.

@victoriawakefield6747 14 күн бұрын

Love your comments John, especially with reference to Wendover. I can't wait to hear your comments about Maidenhead!

@falaise6077 14 күн бұрын

...yes, that brutal telephone exchange, built to survive an atom bomb

@Polsnulspace 14 күн бұрын

Perfect timing for my cuppa tea

@paulkrenz9593 11 күн бұрын

Thanks John, very enjoyable

@davebutterworth7414 14 күн бұрын

Another good vid John ! Yet again there’s a good bit of railway coverage 🤪👍

@BrassLock 14 күн бұрын

Grace Bros Yeah! 😂 Greetings from a Perth West Aussie 🇦🇺

@MYCROFTonX 14 күн бұрын

I can now have my lunch... wickedsweetawesome.

@Vtarngpb 14 күн бұрын

What’s for lunch?

@MYCROFTonX 14 күн бұрын

@@Vtarngpb As it's Winter again we are having Sunday Roast with still warm Cherry and Chocolate cake with cream. Before you ask, the plague of locusts masquerading as my family have eaten the bloody lot.

@EngineerLewis 14 күн бұрын

Better the devil you can find in a boot than the one you don't! 🤣 lol

@Nick-ye5kk 14 күн бұрын

The original council offices in Aylesbury featured as the crown court building in the 1964 Miss Marple film "Murder Most Foul"

@oliverstemp9132 14 күн бұрын

apparently the Buckinghamshire county council office is almost completely empty. And Wendover is lovely, if a bit pointless.

@greg5639 14 күн бұрын

Hey up me duck, on this beautiful drizzly summers day. 😏

@jimmydesouza4375 14 күн бұрын

6:30 That building looks fantastic. I have always loved 60's and 70's architecture (I think it is called "Brutalist").

@simontay4851 12 күн бұрын

Fantastic? What is wrong with you. No it doesn't. It effing horrible. Its called brutalist for a reason. Because its brutal and horrible. It looks like some sort of soviet prizon.

@Droningonuk 14 күн бұрын

Just a thought and only a thought I can't think of a better host than yourself jon a few videos on the railways 🤔 could be a winner

@malphadour 14 күн бұрын

"An area..." :) :) :)

@portlandfester7510 14 күн бұрын

You are compulsive viewing love all your videos lol 😂

@The_BenboBaggins 14 күн бұрын

Another whicked sweet awesome video 👍

@grahamjesson5464 14 күн бұрын

A very fair review of aylesbury, you covered everything the town has to offer. lol You missed claydon house, which is the family home of the verney family, hence verney junction.

@Demo-critus 14 күн бұрын

Grace Brothers? As in "Are you being served?" 🙂

@MrGreatplum 14 күн бұрын

That county council building is… special!

@simontay4851 12 күн бұрын

You spelt disgusting wrong.

@DanielMeakin1 14 күн бұрын

Brilliant video of going through my town Aylesbury!

@Izithel 14 күн бұрын

2:20 aw yeah, the railway tangent in the road journey series, you know just what I like. 5:49 even more rail, you should just do a Great British Rail Journeys next. 6:58 The answer is usually simple like a big budget and a need to spend it or lose it.

@0skar9193 14 күн бұрын

I think Great British Railway Journeys has been done... by some failed pompous politician. John is way more entertaining and not pompous in the slightest

@Jehty_ 14 күн бұрын

For the third one: Surely there is more to it. Like inflated egos, superior complexes, small 🍆, and so on. Otherwise that big budget surely could have been used for something more beneficial for the county.

@5fifty 14 күн бұрын

I live in Aus, Grace Brothers used to serve more regional areas (Towns around 15,000 to 30,000), while the majors like David Jones were in the cities. Myer (our other department store) bought them, took the best shops and sold the rest. The town I live in (Nowra, NSW) had one of, what I believe to be, one of the last Grace Brothers branded stores in the country, closing in 2003. (Don’t quote me)

@prva9347 14 күн бұрын

Joseph and his brother set up a department store called Grace Brothers? - so were they known as Old Mr Grace and Young Mr Grace? even though nothing to do with the BBC's sitcom "Are You Being Served?"

@jgildert 14 күн бұрын

I think the Jurassic Park music should have been played for the outro whilst stood next to the pile of muck.

@hanzzarkov7690 5 күн бұрын

I can't put a finger on it. Something I enjoy about dry *informative humor presented in scene with old bits of stone. Cheers!

@KiiaBite 14 күн бұрын

A video featuring Buckinghamshire and "Silverstone" released around the time of the Grand Prix? I see it what you did there John ;). (Come on Lando!)

@antonycharnock2993 14 күн бұрын

I worked there in 2022 as security. I ended up on the pit tour and guarding Nigel Mansells 1992 F1 car

@KiiaBite 14 күн бұрын

@@antonycharnock2993 very cool. One of the best looking cars in my opinion too. Marlboro era wasn't it? I've been meaning to bimble over to the museum on a random holiday day sometime soon. I used to marshall at Snetterton, I love the atmosphere surrounding a racing track.

@sandwichbar8226 14 күн бұрын

Hello Jon, how the devil you, have you had a good week?

@jonathanhall7334 14 күн бұрын

These Videos are getting better each week.

@Ronprower 14 күн бұрын

Perfect video to watch with breakfast!

@blackscooby251 10 күн бұрын

Another top video. It's the mix of wit and sarcasm that just gets me every time. Addictive viewing, especially when I'm working from home, it's p1ssing it down yet again, the dog is asleep and I've nothing else to do to fill time until my next Teams meeting. Take take, bye bye.. look forward to the next episode of wit and humour.

@Phuc_Yhou 14 күн бұрын

Well that's another duckup caused by "solving a problem" 😂

@hedydd2 14 күн бұрын

The use of COR-TEN weathering steel in the construction of the bridge is interesting. It was first used architecturally in the construction of John Deere’s world headquarters at Moline, Illinois during the 1960’s and its most prominent use in the UK must be The Angel of the North statue thing. Glad you asked.

@cliveyboyb5770 13 күн бұрын

Corten. The same steel used for shipping containers. It has the ability to generate a thin oxide coating that then protects it from further corrosion.

@DavidRGray 14 күн бұрын

Aylesbury, you nailed the place. Also, Verney Junction used to be on the Metropolitan Line of the London Underground!

@geeboy1986 14 күн бұрын

saw the episode of Secrets of the London Underground last night that was talking about this very location.

@davewhitehead8601 14 күн бұрын

Buckinghamshire Railway Centre, as used in Series 8 of Taskmaster.

@kevinrayner5812 14 күн бұрын

Seems to pop up in quite a few tv locations. In Morse I seem to remember or was it Endeaver?

@Ashystar067 14 күн бұрын

Sunday mornings are for auto shenanigans

@tassiehandyman3090 14 күн бұрын

"The Ballad of Buckingham Gowl"... just like Oscar Wilde, John, you have nothing to declare, except your genius...😂...and for what it's worth, you can join my club anytime you want...😁👍🇦🇺

@deeayenn 14 күн бұрын

Flooding issues.. Caused by building works.. Who would have thought it...

@baldymagoo 12 күн бұрын

I admire your ability to talk really fast and not get out of breath, I think id pass out. Super smashin episode cheers.

@West4ea 14 күн бұрын

am i the only one that loves the council building?

@chrisogrady28 14 күн бұрын

Sameeeee

@scatterkeir 14 күн бұрын

me too!

@ChrisBrown-px1oy 12 күн бұрын

No, you're not. Fred Pooley of the county council was an outstanding municipal architect.

@simontay4851 12 күн бұрын

Yes you are. Its horrible. Shropshire council offices were also built in the 60s with the same type of nasty concrete and its the ugliest building in Shrewsbury.

@ChrisBrown-px1oy 11 күн бұрын

@@simontay4851 Three people chime in to say the OP is not alone, and you just deny our existence? This stuff is all subjective. For me the ugliest building in Shrewsbury is Princess House, four storeys of brick and concrete. I'm sure there are uglier buildings in the town, but this one takes up a whole side of The Square. Shire Hall Shrewsbury may be built of the same kind of concrete as County Buildings Aylesbury, but even looking at photographs I can tell that the Aylesbury offices' concrete is much more carefully finished, and dressed at ground level. Nearly every other twentieth century building in the centre of Aylesbury is far drearier, to my mind.

@PoppyPitts-vm3jx 14 күн бұрын

I love how you address this topic with such honesty.

@braderzjamez3197 14 күн бұрын

Another great vid Jon 👍🏾👍🏾

@billmmckelvie5188 14 күн бұрын

No, I can't believe somebody's beaten me to sailing a Rubber duck on a flooded section of road. So 10/10 for that. I know 300 mm long ones are produced. That will be noticed far quicker. 10/10 for this one. Thanks for the video I appreciate the inclusion of Rail shenigans, it is great to see what's there in Buckinghamshire especially all the museums.

@LUNATIC75 14 күн бұрын

Ah, Aylesbury. My home town. The 1960's were not kind to her and things ain't getting any better either.

@simontay4851 12 күн бұрын

The 60s were bad for everywhere. It was a bad time.

@FXCartel 14 күн бұрын

Can't wait till you venture more north west and I see more roads I actually use but I've still watched every episode!

@mrg-ghx8052 4 күн бұрын

The bridge/area at the start is a 🌈 dogging spot 😂 I don't stop in that car park anymore 😂😂😂

@durb1n 13 күн бұрын

This was a particulalry great episode for me. I grew up in the now abandoned pub in Verney Junction so was shocked to see it mentioned

@VkmSpouge 14 күн бұрын

Great seeing my home represented. Aylesbury is a lovely place! We have a singing statue of David Bowie just off the Market Square! The East-West Railway was supposed to have a spur to Aylesbury, upgrading the freight line to a full passenger service and allowing for trains to run via Winslow to Milton Keynes, a very handy journey and taking traffic off the very congested roads. However spiralling costs has meant that this spur has been shelved. Yay.

@john07973 14 күн бұрын

Great video - I was born in Bucks my late parents never left the county after meeting at RAF Little Horwood near Winslow, derelict and returned to agriculture since the late 40's but ripe for a few thousand new arrival houses

@shaun30-3-mg9zs 14 күн бұрын

Hi Jon, another great Sunday video, some nice villages in this area and never heard of the but good to watch, plenty of road and railway facts in that area, Great video take care

@iwantagoodnameplease 13 күн бұрын

I lived in Wendover for a bit. I was renting, and so I wasn't really a local, which is why I fully consented to HS2. I hated all of the Yuppie NIMBYs around there.

@curnock 14 күн бұрын

Great video,as always

@Allrightdrve 14 күн бұрын

Top vid again John .!!👏👏

@davidjackson8183 14 күн бұрын

I hate to be 'that guy', but Gaol is pronounced jail - it's an archaic spelling

@orwellboy1958 14 күн бұрын

I must confess I thought he said gal.

@jono_500 14 күн бұрын

Had a bit of a laugh at that one!

@TheGunnarRoxen 14 күн бұрын

I was also going to be that guy... yeah, it's "jail" but remember if someone says it wrong it's normally because they read it in a book and have never heard it spoken aloud

@xsleep1 14 күн бұрын

I also came here for the same reason but you beat me to it. /jāl/

@jono_500 14 күн бұрын

@@TheGunnarRoxen that much is true! I only know it so because of the Old Melbourne Gaol

@jamesabbott5242 14 күн бұрын

Awesome Video

@colinjames1920 14 күн бұрын

great episode

@darthwiizius 14 күн бұрын

The road one further along than the one through Silverstone to Buckingham is one of my favourite roads, there's a fantastic flat out chicane, I mean an erm national speed limit chicane at the bottom of a hill with hill on the other side. A lot of fun to go through at erm national speed limits, yeah that's it, at 100% legal national speed limit speed. The one that goes through Silverstone is fun until someone in an 18 wheeler gets sent down it by their GPS, you have to get past it before it gets stuck on one of the corners down the road.

@TheGunnarRoxen 14 күн бұрын

Another fab video and gave me a few places to go check out. 😊

@TheFlyingBusman 14 күн бұрын

I can’t wait until you head further north 😂

@goddam9925 14 күн бұрын

Enjoyed that one Dude !!

@barbelmeister 14 күн бұрын

Seeing the rubber ducks reminded me, during the 1990's there was a proliferation of yellow ducks stuck on roadsigns throughout Hertfordshire, Bedfordhshire, Buckinghamshire and perhaps beyond. Never got to find out who or why the roadsigns had the yellow ducks. John?

@Mark-yk1ny 14 күн бұрын

Great video as always thanks John. You will be at 150k in no time 👍

@paulknight5018 14 күн бұрын

Another Masterpeice Jon!

@I_Don_t_want_a_handle 14 күн бұрын

Very nearly moved to Wilmslow, or thereabouts. Some lovely villages near there.

@paulranson6973 14 күн бұрын

Winslow used to have a pub called 'The Devil in the Boot' (or similar). Now I know why. Thanks!

@thomas05ish 13 күн бұрын

All that lovely concrete at the council HQ , mmm fantastic! HS2: what a total waste of OUR money. The Cameron/ Clegg vanity project, who remembers those two?

@chrisogrady28 14 күн бұрын

6:42 am I the only one to quite likes that structure? It has a very hight glass to concrete ratio, and the uneven layering of straight wall to bulging bays makes it look strangely organic for such an imposing building. I would just have liked to see the oxidised copper on the little roofs to be used more on the exterior detailing

@simontay4851 12 күн бұрын

Yes you are the only one. Square grey concrete buildings are always horrible. Even though the new bridge is concrete as well, it looks nicer because its a bright colour.