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Egyptomania in Britain....

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I usually scan through the Daily Mail website, as occasionally that scurrilous rag has some interesting articles, like this one on Egyptian inspired buildings in England. Ignore the soft porn of the site's sidebar and the trashy articles about victims of various crimes, and you might find something like this:-
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -tomb.html


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Uk Magazine Ancient Egypt has had a few issues that cover this too.

http://www.ancientegyptmagazine.com
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The most recent building of this style in Britain, must be the Four Seasons Hotel at Canary Wharf, London, built similar to a pylon. - there is a photo of it on their web site, but yours truly don't know how to transfer it to here - sorry.
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Try...

http://www.fourseasons.com/canarywharf/ ... icmp=mmenu#

The building is picture No 16 in their photo gallery

PS: The initial post made me look at the Mail website (may I be forgiven!). The article was just a book plug, but the pictures were great. I loved the house in Penzance. But the good doctor and the Islington Gazette were there first... He posted on November 9, under the heading "London's Top 12 Landmarks".

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Thanks TonyC,

With ref to the Dr's pictures via the Islington Gazette, the Canary Wharf hotel has been there now for almost 10 years, yet the author has not added this fine building, though, it sort fit to show the frontage of a DIY store up the top of the Warwick Road in SW7,.........so much for new books.
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While agreeing that the hotel shape resembles a temple pylon, I'm not sure it says "Egypt" to the average onlooker. Maybe it's all those windows; now if it were just a stone facade! The sight of the DIY store always made me smile when I worked in Kensington in the Nineties ... and it is highly regarded in "architectural post-modernist" circles! One blog says: "While the façade of Homebase, Kensington (1988) is a masterpiece of eccentric, kitsch Egyptiana and Parthenon-lite. [Ian] Pollard's buildings are symbolic of 1980s economic success and excess, and a celebration of architectural dandyism and optimism."
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I take your point Tony, on second look, it could be a casino straight out of China, I know in the centre of Birmingham U.K.
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We are ahead of England in Wales. :cool:
only by 202 years.. :cg

The Jubilee tower, stood 511 feet tall, Built to commemorate George III Golden Jubilee by some Royalist Arse licker on a ley line 9 miles from my home in Wales..
Against the wishes of the locals. The Mountain can v\be seen from 50 miles around..

It lasted 50 years before it mysteriously fell down.

THIS is whats left..

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Copyright my arse.. :xx
Did HE build the tower ? is he even Welsh !
Did he ask those people's permission before he photographed them ?

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