Comments on: Five Years, that’s all we’ve got http://peteashton.com/2009/11/five_years_thats_all_weve_got/ June 2000 to June 2010 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:48:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Matt Murtagh http://peteashton.com/2009/11/five_years_thats_all_weve_got/comment-page-1/#comment-124218 Matt Murtagh Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:57:14 +0000 http://peteashton.com/?p=8076#comment-124218 I've always loved the Library for photography, it's such a unique contradictory building, odd and eerie, ugly and beautiful at the same time. wonder who I have to talk to get access to some of the lesser known bits inside... I’ve always loved the Library for photography, it’s such a unique contradictory building, odd and eerie, ugly and beautiful at the same time.

wonder who I have to talk to get access to some of the lesser known bits inside…

]]> By: Richard Plum http://peteashton.com/2009/11/five_years_thats_all_weve_got/comment-page-1/#comment-124217 Richard Plum Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:01:51 +0000 http://peteashton.com/?p=8076#comment-124217 While I'm firmly in the anti-gang, I agree entirely with your suggestion that we need a full and proper photographic record of the place. One of my issues is the contruction of Paradise Forum (of all the misnomers possible!) has lost us some of the more interesting views of the building from inside the atrium, and I hope that there are surviving pictures of things as they were even before Paradise Forum MkI (which wasn't quite as bad as the current Mk II) For the record, I am of those in the angi-gang who might be better inclined towards it if it had been completed; I'm not a fan of brutalist architecture at the best of times but the building could at least have been "interesting" - the way things stand now, it simply makes no sense. (And I've never been a huge fan of any of the versions of its layout as a library, and I have used it a LOT over the years and continue to use it at least once a week!) All power to the flickr group, I must remember to take my camera on my next visit! While I’m firmly in the anti-gang, I agree entirely with your suggestion that we need a full and proper photographic record of the place.

One of my issues is the contruction of Paradise Forum (of all the misnomers possible!) has lost us some of the more interesting views of the building from inside the atrium, and I hope that there are surviving pictures of things as they were even before Paradise Forum MkI (which wasn’t quite as bad as the current Mk II)

For the record, I am of those in the angi-gang who might be better inclined towards it if it had been completed; I’m not a fan of brutalist architecture at the best of times but the building could at least have been “interesting” – the way things stand now, it simply makes no sense. (And I’ve never been a huge fan of any of the versions of its layout as a library, and I have used it a LOT over the years and continue to use it at least once a week!)

All power to the flickr group, I must remember to take my camera on my next visit!

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