Cut Us Loose!
On a coach back from the city of dreaming spires (and bricking-it final year students) to the middle of London, I sat and slept. I normally bring a book or a paper with me for the journey, but it's only to make me look like I have important business to be getting on with even though I am on travelling intercity in the middle of the morning - I pretend to read. I spent a lot of time starting out of the window, having a 1hr40min existential crisis whilst being away from a good internet connection.
A certain building caught my eye as we pulled away from the Notting Hill Gate station and moved towards Marble Arch, the part of the journey close to the end. I only saw it for a few seconds down a wide road leading away off the road the coach travels on, left to the direction of travel. The building looked like it was birthed by a gothic church which had made love to the 1960's. There was a spire, and part of a church wall which joins with an entirely different type of glass and concrete building. I didn't catch the name of the road it was on, nor did I realise where I was at the time. After having some chicken with my friend Ali, and later giving up on job seeking, I thought about the church that was gobbled up by, and clipped into, an apartment block. I did the sane thing and followed my route on Google Maps.
After a good 20 minutes of street viewing through Shepard's Bush, checking each side street, I found what it was that I'd seen.
Spire House is a building project in Lancaster Gate, coming off Bayswater Road and next to Kensington Gardens. The building used to be a functioning church, known as Christ Church, which succumbed to dry rot and in part demolished in 1977. In 1983 the housing scheme 'Spire House' was build atop of what was left.
I thought it was pretty crazy that the church was once so well-known, now something I spotted because I was bored looking out a window. I'm learning a lot about my city that I didn't know before, and this has been a really interesting discovery for me. I generally like seeing things elegantly recycled instead of put to waste. The construction also looks like an unwelcomed growth. It's gorgeous.
I then thought of the cutscene below. Games have ruined me.
Until next time!
A certain building caught my eye as we pulled away from the Notting Hill Gate station and moved towards Marble Arch, the part of the journey close to the end. I only saw it for a few seconds down a wide road leading away off the road the coach travels on, left to the direction of travel. The building looked like it was birthed by a gothic church which had made love to the 1960's. There was a spire, and part of a church wall which joins with an entirely different type of glass and concrete building. I didn't catch the name of the road it was on, nor did I realise where I was at the time. After having some chicken with my friend Ali, and later giving up on job seeking, I thought about the church that was gobbled up by, and clipped into, an apartment block. I did the sane thing and followed my route on Google Maps.
After a good 20 minutes of street viewing through Shepard's Bush, checking each side street, I found what it was that I'd seen.
Spire House is a building project in Lancaster Gate, coming off Bayswater Road and next to Kensington Gardens. The building used to be a functioning church, known as Christ Church, which succumbed to dry rot and in part demolished in 1977. In 1983 the housing scheme 'Spire House' was build atop of what was left.
I thought it was pretty crazy that the church was once so well-known, now something I spotted because I was bored looking out a window. I'm learning a lot about my city that I didn't know before, and this has been a really interesting discovery for me. I generally like seeing things elegantly recycled instead of put to waste. The construction also looks like an unwelcomed growth. It's gorgeous.
I then thought of the cutscene below. Games have ruined me.
Until next time!
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