Changing from crossrail to the jubilee line highlights how badly the 90’s “techno” styling of the jubilee line extension is ageing. It just feels gloomy and oppressive.
yeah canary wharf specifically has a bit of a dystopian feel to it seen in the current time. It used to just look scifi but now it looks ‘the bad guys in scifi’
@marlies my enduring association with all the docklands redevelopment style is the classic TV show "Bugs" which was filmed around the area! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugs_(…
It's always seemed a slightly depressing riff on grey-and-vast Estate Agent Fascist.
I think about that time there was quite a lot of aesthetic fetish for spies and the security services, paramilitary police units, vigelante cops, etc (the GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies era) a kind of "Dirty Harry"-seque uptick.
Especially with it being Westminster it all just seems like a tired and vaguely offensive cliche.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •It's always seemed a slightly depressing riff on grey-and-vast Estate Agent Fascist.
I think about that time there was quite a lot of aesthetic fetish for spies and the security services, paramilitary police units, vigelante cops, etc (the GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies era) a kind of "Dirty Harry"-seque uptick.
Especially with it being Westminster it all just seems like a tired and vaguely offensive cliche.