Rebuilt Crystal Palace "by 2014"
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kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
I love the word pneumatic.
It manages to combine technology, engineering and somehow also sound a bit rude, a bit dirty.
It manages to combine technology, engineering and somehow also sound a bit rude, a bit dirty.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
The same could be said of many engineering terms, I believe.
hipipol
Peckham Wry
Historical rebuilds
It'll look crap, a sort of Disneyfied pastiche - if you want that sort of bollocks there are already tons of it in London
I'd rather they built an exact replica of the Great Pyramid of Cheops, with a huge revolving green eye on the top with massive searchlights shining thru it...!!!!!
Now THAT would be fanastic rather than a fucking giant conservatory in a shrunken park
The Crystal Palace Pneumatic Railway was I believe the inspiation for the new Richard Gere Home Fun Pack - every refill bought sends 10p to the Dalai Lama!!!!
It'll look crap, a sort of Disneyfied pastiche - if you want that sort of bollocks there are already tons of it in London
I'd rather they built an exact replica of the Great Pyramid of Cheops, with a huge revolving green eye on the top with massive searchlights shining thru it...!!!!!
Now THAT would be fanastic rather than a fucking giant conservatory in a shrunken park
The Crystal Palace Pneumatic Railway was I believe the inspiation for the new Richard Gere Home Fun Pack - every refill bought sends 10p to the Dalai Lama!!!!
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
tangerinedream
Density of Sound
Cid
Proper break this time
Flange. Flllaaaange.
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
Can't see it happening myself, but I like it:
Always thought it was a shame when they stopped motor racing at Crystal Palace, myself.
IIRC, some of the all-time great drivers raced around the Crystal Palace circuit.
http://www.bmrc.co.uk/championships/cpalace.html
George & Bill
semiotically superfluous
People hear the words 'rebuilt Crystal Palace' and imagine, one can only guess, that some rich nutter is going to stump up a few hundred million quid on some kind of folly - a lovely big empty greenhouse that delighted Londoners will be free to frolick around to their hearts' content.
This would be nice, but no-one's suggesting that this will be funded unless it adds up as an investment, in which case it'll have to be filled to the rafters with 16,000 branches of WH Smith, rather like the 'restored' St Pancras.
This would be nice, but no-one's suggesting that this will be funded unless it adds up as an investment, in which case it'll have to be filled to the rafters with 16,000 branches of WH Smith, rather like the 'restored' St Pancras.
I really don't understand some posters' enthusiasm for this?
It'll be a massive UPVC shopping mall, with hotel and car parking, paid for by selling of PARK LAND (!) to build yuppie flats. What's to like??
And according to the images, it looks like a megalith Barrat Homes conservatory, as drawn on a ZX81.
It'll be a massive UPVC shopping mall, with hotel and car parking, paid for by selling of PARK LAND (!) to build yuppie flats. What's to like??
And according to the images, it looks like a megalith Barrat Homes conservatory, as drawn on a ZX81.
RubyToogood
RubyTwobikes
The other point is that when it was built, it was all countryside around there, but since then the city has engulfed it, and AFAIC we need to keep all the green spaces we've got! If you go and stand on that ridge, the views are stunning. You can see kestrels and sparrowhawks hovering overhead and catching things in the bushes, pick blackberries, or sit on a sphinx with a can of beer.
slowjoe is right as well. It's all very well saying "Rebuild the Crystal Palace", but what FOR exactly, what's it going to do? If commerically viable uses are just an afterthought it's really not going to work very well, and if it's commercially driven then it has no place on parkland. All round bad idea!
And another thing... those who bang on about the history of the area only seem to be able to see back as far as 1851. What about before that when the area was farmland, or before that when it was part of the Great North Wood?
slowjoe is right as well. It's all very well saying "Rebuild the Crystal Palace", but what FOR exactly, what's it going to do? If commerically viable uses are just an afterthought it's really not going to work very well, and if it's commercially driven then it has no place on parkland. All round bad idea!
And another thing... those who bang on about the history of the area only seem to be able to see back as far as 1851. What about before that when the area was farmland, or before that when it was part of the Great North Wood?
Perhaps they plan on turning it into a humongous plant and butterfly centre to appease the environmentalists.
There won't be a Starbucks in sight...
That map appears to suggest there's an underground passage between the former Upper Level station and the still standing Lower Level one, no? Cool.
RubyToogood
RubyTwobikes
That's just the railway line if you mean the thing I think you mean.
PacificOcean
Unhinged User
There is a red bit connecting the palace to the low level station.
There are lots of mystery doors at Crystal Palace station in the old victorian bit. I wonder if one of those was the passage way to the palace?
RubyToogood
RubyTwobikes
Oh, I think there was a covered walkway thing that went up the hill.
ice-is-forming
Good kids caught down in the never never
my dad remembers this too...and a bloke 4 doors down from me in queensland
its a small world sometimes.Buds and Spawn
...if I can't dance...
..I was there only a few weeks ago and had a bimble around the site for the first time since being pulled out of the big chestnut tree (99?)... the place was lovely and overgrown and very peaceful... I think the whole park could do with some tlc (and I wish the bowl would be used for concerts more often like in the old days)... but not a corporate complex nightmare on the top...
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