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    Metropolitan Sepulchre, and other things unbuilt

    Why is the thread title character limit so stingy?

    Anyway.

    Just saw this, which I was previously ignorant of:





    "Sited for Primrose Hill, today a park area in North London, the necropolis was designed to alleviate the overpopulation of London's graveyards while adding a looming monument to mortality to the city's skyline."

    How cool is that?

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    Metropolitan Sepulchre, and other things unbuilt

    They should build two.

    Call them Necropolis and Mausoleum. And rename London "Termight"…

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      Wow, that is just astonishing — think how that would dominate the skyline had it been built, it'd be one of the wonders of the world, albeit a ghoulish one. That article's closing comment about the city's "forgotten cemeteries" is timely, too — aren't they just about to remove something like 3000 mediaeval bodies from the plague pits being uncovered by the Crossrail excavations? Would be ideal to have something like this to move them into, just imagine.

      Guy Potger wrote: They should build two.
      Call them Necropolis and Mausoleum.
      Is that channelling the spirit of Wenlock and Mandeville?

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        There was a great exhibit at the RA a while back of early, fantastical Soviet architecture like the Palace of the Soviets, much of which was never built.

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          The Bruce Report, published in March 1945, envisaged the total obliteration of the city centre of Glasgow and its complete rebuilding along modernist, brutalist lines.



          The pressing urgency of dealing with the city’s chronic housing and health problems where 20% of the Scottish population lived within a 5-mile square radius of the city centre probably explains the radicalism of the plan. The plan’s full implementation would have seen the destruction of Glasgow Central, the Art School, the City Chambers, Kelvingrove Art Galleries and Museum and all of the other Victorian, Georgian and Edwardian buildings in the city. Rip it up and start again as one of the city’s musical sons would say 40 years later.

          Some of the proposals were put in place, for instance ripping the crap out of the Charing Cross and Anderston and imposing brutalist, modernist architecture and the M8 motorway, but thankfully most of the report was shelved.

          Glasgow would have become an enormous Cumbernauld. Shudder.

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            Velvet Android wrote: Wow, that is just astonishing — think how that would dominate the skyline had it been built, it'd be one of the wonders of the world, albeit a ghoulish one. That article's closing comment about the city's "forgotten cemeteries" is timely, too — aren't they just about to remove something like 3000 mediaeval bodies from the plague pits being uncovered by the Crossrail excavations? Would be ideal to have something like this to move them into, just imagine.

            Originally posted by Guy Potger
            They should build two.
            Call them Necropolis and Mausoleum.
            Is that channelling the spirit of Wenlock and Mandeville?
            Why? Has there been an abuse scandal at a care home in rural Shropshire?

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              beak wrote: How cool is that?
              Very much, one would hope.

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