sorry to say - british folks are notorious for bad teeth (not that it has anything to do with architecture)

Yeah and I assume americans have shiny white teeth to make up for their bad breath.


Come on, you can do better than that.

And something about architecture please. Can't u see the title?

britrock ? .. . someone decided to make another indiepop genre to irritate me. did that start here? or in brit? im thinking here...

I have to admit, Simon Fowler is the shit,

but oasis still blows goats.

who came up with powerpop? that's a ridicule as well.

pink floyd
led zep
eric clapton
beatles
jeff beck
the who
...........and many more ...

i bow down .....

yeh,

but...

robert johnson
leadbelly
howlin wolf

buddy holly
elvis

the ramones and all the crowd at cbgb's
....and many more....

MADE the music that all the above were turned on by.

just sayin...


as for architecture, both countries got their good points, and everyone copies everyone else anyway. it's a small world. but i would love to hear of an example of said poor copycatting. something particular on your mind soulikeit?

jump,

I concur ....

This is GETTING OUT OF HAND. DUDE, I"M TALKING ABOUT BRITISH ARCHITECTURE HERE. HELLLO????? BLISTERING BARNACLES.

GET THE RECORD STRAIGHT FOR ONCE. BRITISH ARCHITECTURE AND BRITISH ARCHITECTURE ACADEMIA.

JUMP>>>>>>>>>>>THIS IS FOR YOU

HARVARD, YALE AND PENN JUMPed ONTO THE BEAUX ARTS bandwagon. Isn't that bad enough for me to label them a sore loser.

OKAY OKAY, the beaux arts did not come from tec UK. BUT, they are still some european blood sucking leechers.

IN YOUR FACE.

^^ lol ... soulikeit's pissed ... ( with caps lock on an' all) haha

but hey .. in all fairness ... you said " all things british !!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU....GUYS

I"m NOT PISSED. Its just standard scottish humour.

COME ON GUYS>>>> ARE YOU COWARDS??? REVEAL YOUR LARGE MANHOOD???WHAT THE HECK I'm digressing.


THIS IS GONNA BE THE BIGGEST THREAD IN THE WHOLE HISTORY PF MANKIND. EXPRESS YOUR POLITICAL AND CULTURAL OPINIONS about the "imperalist" if you are AMERICAN, and " ONCE COLONY BUT NOT NOW" if you are BRITSH.

AND REMEMBER, KEEP IT ARCHITECTURE.

LIKE SAY....NORMAN FOSTER vs Frank Gehry(wait he's canadian, urgh never mind)

i can't think of any british architecture.

lessee - h&dm are from switzerland, rem from netherlands, moneo:spain, mayne and roto from l.a., ando and taniguchi from japan, cloepfil from the northwest....yeah i'm stumped.

wait, are you talking about the scottish parliament? no, they were spanish....

the SP spanish? .. no, they were catalan... :p

I can't see what's "british" and what's "foreign" in british architecture nowadays anyway

soul..ask your queen to return these first to their respective countries..then we'll entertain your rants.


Koh-i-noor diamond from India...




this is 'architectural' if the above example didnt suit your highness's fancy

Elgin marble from greece.

sorry medit. true.

i think that jencks guy is british, right? has he built anything?

steven..sure ! ! ! ..........

He's built an entire vocabulary of balltalk !

you need more exclamation marks, nevermore. soulikeit's way ahead of you.

lol

yeah but what about football?

Charles Jencks is American (although he's lived in London forever)

darn it. i didn't know that.

soulikeit hasn't come back, but i'm feeling like a jerk, so i'll just say that, yes, i know that there are some great british architects and a lot of great work. i way just taking the piss, as soulikeit might say.

but there's no point that i can see in having some sort of nationalist discussion of architects. great architects come from everywhere and many do their best work in countries other than their native country.

no country's got a monopoly on good design. though the dutch have been doing a pretty good job this decade.

WHAT ????

Copycats ?

i was in a deep slumber, hibernating because americans are just one nosy little brat driving me up the wall.

Here's the deal:

Steven WARDDDDDDDDDD_______ have u gone cuckold*?

Norman Foster: Swiss Re Building? Rem Koolhas>>>DUTCH but educated at AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA(architecture association). So tell me that BRitish architecture doesn't rule ha?

Well, on a more serious note, I've got to admit that STEVEN WARD is RIGHT, TO A CERTAIN EXTENT. I quote "No country's got a monopoly on good design. though the dutch have been doing a pretty good job this decade" ( Ward 32). Yes, the dutch have been dominating the scene, but NOT FOR AN ERA. THE BRITISH ARE STILL MASTERS AT ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION and ACADEMIA.

GO DO YOUR HOMEWORK.

*pardon my straightforwardness just for the sake of the conversation

YES HAIL THE QUEEN AND THE FOOTBALL

i take back my last post. can't think of anything good coming out of britain.

lol .... hahahaha

talk about wet blankets

soul....Pit Indian cricket fans against English Football fans in a riot ..

We will make you eat your redcrossed sox ! ta !

yeah yeah yeah

If your going to england, bring your own food.

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.

---James Agate, British theatre critic, Ego, 1935-48

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.


hehehehehe

Continental people have a sex life; the English have hot-water bottles.
-----George Mikes, Hungarian writer

archigram! the moving city is getting ready to come and eat you all.......................aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh.

peter cook (for better or worse)
archigram etc
small fry like richard rogers, norman foster and ken shuttleworth
will allsop ( no relation of kirsty as far as i know though they are both property related)
nigel coates,
christopher wren (arent all municipal building in the usa after him?)
that time we sold you london bridge (the wrong one)

and yes we tend to train a few important people inbetween the fogs and rides in carriages;

like
rem and zaha, foa etc

i see us as international originators

and imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

archigram! the moving city is getting ready to come and eat you all.......................aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh.

peter cook (for better or worse)
archigram etc
small fry like richard rogers, norman foster and ken shuttleworth
will allsop ( no relation of kirsty as far as i know though they are both property related)
nigel coates,
christopher wren (arent all municipal building in the usa after him?)
that time we sold you london bridge (the wrong one)

and yes we tend to train a few important people inbetween the fogs and rides in carriages;

like
rem and zaha, foa etc

i see us as international originators

and imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

----Oscar Wilde

anymore?

waiting for more

chairman mao, whose side are u on?

The English never know when they are beaten.
--Spanish saying

England will fight to the last American.
---American saying

Only Englishmen and dogs walk in the sun.
---Italian saying

only nevermore will know what he is talking about
---nevermore saying.

keep the posts related architecture

last one for the day ( keeping in theme with the thread )

"British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive it. If you can't there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps. "

---Peter Ustinov, British playwright


Thank you all..see you tomorrow...the queen has left the building.

Peter Ustinov was russian.

nice pull mouse.