Interior designer : “so what style and colour palette are you thinking of for the house?”
Owner: “All of them”
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ID: Any marble?
O: All of it. Leave none anywhere else in the world.
“Make it bad acid trip, but wealthy”
Design brief: Sylvanian Families act out the gospel according to Luke.
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I always admire this place when I use the carpark it sits in (centre of Plymouth) A shame the location and its use are so uninspiring.
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I thought it was all getting flattened for drake circus part 2.
You can literally feel the life of Plymouth drain as you walk from drake circus to that car park.
Do dig in to the photos/description.
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Ready made business opportunity as a skittle alley right there. Should appeal to the hipsters amongst the Islington set.
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I really enjoyed this 1969 episode of Omnibus about Eric Lyons and Span.
Nairn - never one to pass up an opportunity to call a spade a bloody shovel - is worth the price of admission alone.
“Nairn Across Britain” is also on iPlayer.
And I used to have a link to the whole set of Janet Street Porter - selected post-war architecture programs but I can’t find it now 
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An “if I won the lottery” (and if the owner / architect hadn’t left it to the National Trust) place for me - The Homewood by Patrick Gwynne.
My shitty photos I’m afraid.
Mandatory piloti
I seem to have omitted to take photos of the funky outdoor kitchen, the funky dancefloor and built-in stereo (was it B&O or Quad? 
) or anything representative of the beautiful garden.
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Reminds me of my primary school.
Lovely, but a bit cold for me.
When was it built, 1920s?
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Late 30s
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I would have guessed 60’s (ignoring the front door)
That is a great place though.
Nice little fixer-upper . . .
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This is the Dorman Long tower
There has recently been a successful campaign to list it as an impressive chonk of brutalist and northern industrial history.
which was even supported by the local tory MP (I think he’s one of the new red/blue wall ones)
Evidently looking for something to smash up on (literally) day one of her culture war, ignorant Nazi cunt Nadine Dorries has rescinded the listing overnight. It is now apparently due for demolition at 2am on Sunday - standard Tory “rush it through to avoid scrutiny”.
The listing has been disappeared overnight
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1477999
as has the local MP’s support
Don’t say you weren’t warned.
Don’t act all surprised when they come to burn your fancy “books” and imprison your degenerate jazz musicians.
I didn’t think my opinion of these hateful cunts could get any lower, but I’m finding this all really chilling.
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What are the odds the developer is a Tory donor?
Or related to Dorries