Most of what Owen Luder designed back in the 60's has now been knocked down due to the sheer ugliness of his creations.
White elephants
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What's this hotel?
Plugger35
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Basingstoke in England is a White Elephant town.
I got sent out there for a finance job by one of the job agencies in London when I was a naïve young lad thinking it was an outer suburb of London, I had to get a bloody overland train out there, it was a town in the middle of Hampshire FFS.
Took me about an hour and a half on the train so I already made my mind up I didn't want the job and when I actually got to Basingstoke I definitely didn't want the job as it was like a concrete relic from the 1970s full of ugly grey concrete buildings and weird roundabouts, an absolutely awful place. Like an English version of Canberra but worse.
I still went to my job interview determined to make a bad impression which I think I achieved as my job agency told me they'd passed me over for another more suitable candidate.
I pretended to be disappointed but was inwardly thinking "thank f*** for that" and made a note to self to brush up on my locations before going to an interview.
I got sent out there for a finance job by one of the job agencies in London when I was a naïve young lad thinking it was an outer suburb of London, I had to get a bloody overland train out there, it was a town in the middle of Hampshire FFS.
Took me about an hour and a half on the train so I already made my mind up I didn't want the job and when I actually got to Basingstoke I definitely didn't want the job as it was like a concrete relic from the 1970s full of ugly grey concrete buildings and weird roundabouts, an absolutely awful place. Like an English version of Canberra but worse.
I still went to my job interview determined to make a bad impression which I think I achieved as my job agency told me they'd passed me over for another more suitable candidate.
I pretended to be disappointed but was inwardly thinking "thank f*** for that" and made a note to self to brush up on my locations before going to an interview.
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It's an 'art' piece on East Link, serves no purpose/isn't a hotel
It's just ridiculous
Unless things have changed, this was a great place to duck off and smoke a jazz cigarette/cone while resting your back on one of the pillars while having a semblance of cover while you waited that 60 mins after you just missed the train back to Salisbury on a Sunday....
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What the ****...
Don't you know anything, this is a piece of artwork. Geez try and be a bit more cultured would you.
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It actually looks half interesting... If you were a ****ing bird.
https://maps.google.com.au/maps?q=a...stival+Dr,+Adelaide+South+Australia+5000&z=19
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Slough in Berkshire is full of buildings like that, John Betjeman wrote a poem about it saying he wanted it bombed. It was the perfect setting for The Office. Ironically the vagaries of the Royal Mail means the Windsor has a Slough postcode.
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The Skywhale, it was $350,000 and was made as part of the Canberra centenary celebrations. It flew around the city a couple of times at events but that was it.
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Questions over its financial viability, plus it's hideous to look at and taking up acres and acres of prime river frontage.
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Jesus.
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Jeez, haven't seen it looking like that for a while. That looks like it still has the metal bench seating there?
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Yeah Slough is like Basingstoke, a grim depressing place full of ugly grey concrete buildings from the 60s and 70s.
A lot of scummy chav types out that way, that was where Ali G and his crew used to hang out from memory.
Someone mentioned Spain earlier.
Spain has a few very specfic types of white elephant - airports.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-18855961
Spain has a few very specfic types of white elephant - airports.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-18855961
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