Archivist
Senior Member
I'm sure it would. Look at the "Big Gherkin" comments, which in my mind have supplanted the actual name of the Swiss Re building. I've always thought London was charmingly self-deprecating about these things.
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Post: Architects veer away from 'car crash' design
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flar
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Gothic Revival was popular in the early and mid Victorian era and inspired the houses with steeply pitched roofs and decorative trim and bargeboards (gingerbread). They often had the little pointed (Gothic) windows in the gables or dormers.
Neo-Gothic is the institutional one, used frequently on schools in the early 20th century.
Neo-Gothic is the institutional one, used frequently on schools in the early 20th century.
Tewder
Senior Member
Thanks Flar, so neither of them are of the colonial era then?
Urban Shocker
Doyenne
A few designs - Horace Walpole's house from 1750, Strawberry Hill for instance - incorporated Gothic elements as eccentric decorative elements, rather like the later Victorian gingerbread houses we have here in Toronto.
Most early Gothic Revival was institutional, not residential. It was the Big Hair style of the time, in Britain and Europe. Pugin/Barry's Palace of Westminster, begun in 1840, is probably the best example. Oxford university has good examples. These buildings paid close attention to proportion and authenticity of detail.
Most early Gothic Revival was institutional, not residential. It was the Big Hair style of the time, in Britain and Europe. Pugin/Barry's Palace of Westminster, begun in 1840, is probably the best example. Oxford university has good examples. These buildings paid close attention to proportion and authenticity of detail.
TKTKTK
Senior Member
Authentic how? Authentic revival? Authentic to Gothic's origins? Authentic to the times? Authentic materials? Was there something more authentic about pre-20th century times?
Urban Shocker
Doyenne
Authentic faux, as opposed to a Strawberry Hill picturesqueness based on charming effect.
TKTKTK
Senior Member
So Strawberry Hill isn't Authentic faux? It's...Authentic? The first forays into a still-redeveloping style?
Can you stop throwing polarizing words like "Authentic" around? There is no authenticity in aesthetics.
Urban Shocker
Doyenne
No, Strawberry Hill isn't authentic faux. The charming eccentricity of Strawberry Hill was much earlier than the Palace of Westminster, by which time Mock Goth was the house style of an empire. Strawberry Hill was like some mad queen interior decorator flinging cushions and throw rugs about a room for effect. Later faux Gothic was serious stuff, in the service of a combined church and empire - Onward Christian Soldiers!
adma
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Archivist
Senior Member
Still, nothing comes back exactly the same way. No one in their right mind would confuse a 2007 Clewes with a 1965 Page & Steele, but that doesn't make Clewes inauthentic.
Tewder
Senior Member
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Doyenne
My condolences, petal.