I’m back home with new pictures and new blogs …sometime… In the meantime here are a few snaps celebrating the fun of train travel and trying to capture amazing buildings that my parents and grandparents would not have seen on their commute to the office in London.
Citrus?
Two Dimensional?
How would you like a balcony here?
Would you like to live or work in any of these buildings? Perhaps you do!
Times and Tides of a Beachwriter 
I prefer terra firma
More firma less terror.
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Very wise David.
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That last shot of buildings looks a lot like much of the apartment housing that has popped up around our area in recent years. Those “Citrus” buildings do have some beautiful color on them. I myself wouldn’t mind hanging out in a couple of those triangular-type buildings viewed in the background of the shot which includes people walking about. I love buildings shaped with “outside-the-box” thinking, Janet!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_Victoria
Luckily one of my camera club friends knew what it was called. Sounds like you could live or work there. Wonder what the sharp end is like inside! It won the Carbuncle Cup in 2017…
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There are some wild new buildings in New York City – one called the “Jenga” building – based on the game where you stack logs at strange shapes…and it looks just like that1. Great fun photos!
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Thanks John, yes the Jenga building must be fun, as long as you can’t pull the blocks out!
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Nope, no tall glass and steel boxes for me! Give me a lakeside vintage cottage.
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I don’t blame you Liz. I wouldn’t want to be without my garden and as I don’t like lifts that could be a problem. I have actually lived in a thirteen story block long ago, that’s another story.
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As high as I’ve gone is a third-floor apartment.
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I like blocks, I live in one, I worked in some solid buildings, but not the glass and steel modern types. I heard you are not allowed to open the windows there!
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Hello Marina, good to hear from someone who lives in a block, I’m glad you like them.
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On a train trip from Suffolk to London earlier this year, I was amazed at the differences in and around East London as we approached Liverpool Street Station. In the 14 years that I have been living in Norfolk, those areas have changed completely. And not for the better.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Hello Pete. Yes I always wonder when London will sink under the weight of all those buildings, especially when you think of all that is going on underground – story idea?
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Fine to visit, occasionally, but live/work there? Not my cuppa tea. 🙂
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Yes it would be very different from your home.
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I would hate to live in a city but if I had to for some reason then I would like to live right in the middle which would probably mean a flat in a high rise building. It would have to have a balcony though so I could grow some plants!
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Yes I would have liked to have lived right in the middle of my home city. Although I don’t approve of two home ownership I would have an apartment looking over the River Thames, right in the heart of London, as well as my seaside home – if I won the lottery, which I don’t actually do!
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