Brecqhou - Designed by Quinlan Terry
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Brecqhou Castle, a gothic castle on Brecqhou Island, designed by architect Quinlan Terry. In 1993, the Barclay brothers bought the island of Brecqhou, a small sister island of Sark, one of the Channel Islands.
Fort Brecqhou is the largest house built in Britain in the last 200 years. The granite castle is on a quadrangular plan, built in the castellated Gothic style, complete with circular turrets at the 4 corners. It features giant twisted chimneys of the style developed during the reign of Henry VIII (this chimney style is unique to English architecture).
Just an ordinary palace with a proper pipe and heating systems...Henry VII dreams comming true! lol
What an amazing building, hopefully another will be built on the mainland.
It is very common for Gothic architecture to be asymmetrical.
This is not pointed architecture at all, it is a mockery and a sham of those noble medieval palaces and castles, and it cannot be accepted.
A mashup of incompatible architectural styles -- classical form confected with gothic flourishes. So despite its extraordinary cost, Brecqhou is a mongrel, and less than the sum of its parts.
Au contraire, mon ami! This is not uncommon, particularly in Tudor and Elizabethan buildings. You should visit Peterhouse chapel, Cambridge; great example.
OP is right, classicism and medievalism should never mix, and Brecqhou is an irregular mongrel affair.
honestly, a lot of old buildings are a bit shit by georgian and victorian standards but nobody attacks them as they are old. if somebody told me this thing was built in the 1920s i woudn't question it, and i doubt you would either
@@menacinghat Bollocks. Georgian Gothic architecture is still hated by many today because it just does not look right, Victorian Gothic however is praised because unlike it's predecessor, it actually looks good.
@@brunocerri9560 How can you compare this to Peterhouse College? They are two different styles. This castle is clearly based on a Georgian Gothic design, while Peterhouse is mainly Tudor/Elizabethan revival.
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If aesthetically pleasing was a building!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yay ! Long live the rich !
As JK Galbraith wryly commented on a picture of a Victorian monstrosity: "The capitalist need not be a man of taste".
I'm sure it's architecturally very fine, but it is revoltingly out of place. Quite an obnoxious sight when viewed from the cliffs of Sark.
Too much for such acreage, but what do I know not owning islands.
Gormenghast. I wonder what Mervyn Peake who lived on and loved Sark would make of it?
Needs a galleon with canon to level it, the Barclays are a right pair of wankers.
This is the home of the Barclay brothers, (Sir David and Sir Frederick) the billionaire twins who currently own the Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph, and who are strong supporters of both BREXIT and the Tory Party. Until recently they were paying Boris Johnson more than £250,000 per year for producing one article each week. It's on the island of Brecqhou which they own. Brecqhou is a small island off Sark in the Channel Islands. It means that all of their UK enterprises, including the aforementioned "newspapers" pay no UK corporation tax. These are the types of people, overseas residents backing right-wing policies which benefit the wealthy at the expense of the rest of us, who are influencing people through these organs. Perhaps if more people are made aware of this they may see through the propaganda published by their so-called newspapers. One can only hope.
Remainer tears still dripping.
Wormwood Scrubs given the Strawberry Hill treatment - a pastiche of a pastiche.
That is similar to saying the color blue is a pastiche of the sky.
badwolf987 I'm not sure it is.
shutoman7 No, I don't suppose you would be.
Brett von Henneberg-Römhild That doesn't even parse.
Would you like me to help you understand?
Not bad for a couple of working-class boys from Shepherds Bush.
I'm quite happy to live in a flat. What's the point in building a silly dwelling like this? Besides, I thought Fred 'n' Dave already had gaffs in Monaco.
They couldn't buy it so so they do not own it. It is a dependency of Sark. The castle is monstrously ugly. What a waste.
It is incredibly ugly.
i worked there.3 pints of beer allowed a night.sadly a man died there
Who died there? Please tell us more.
He was murdered wasn't he?
Looks like trago mills
It's not quite picturesque, as a gothic castle should be. Quinlan Terry is probably more accomplished doing classical architecture.
In the context of revivalism, it is a step in the right direction, but architecturally it is essentially a Georgian palace which hides behind pointed architecture. There is nothing more derisory than a pediment with columns and pilasters, topped with crenellations and pinnacles, pinnacles lacking in the structural function which was honoured by medieval master masons. We should not let this be the face of revivalism, it is just as bad as the mock gothicky follies at Brighton and Strawberry Hill, and it must be denounced.
I totally agree. Georgian architects tried and failed at Gothic revival architecture, they created something that was neither truly Gothic nor Classical - just a very ugly mess of both styles. Why on earth would someone build a "castle" in a style so hideous?
Worse than naff, to the point that its creepy
No matter how deeply an architect dislikes his client there is no excuse for bastardising the fine work of stonemasons and ruining an otherwise perfect environment. Some nice stonework, but this ugly pastiche is neither Gothic nor Georgian, and while the interior is no doubt considered pleasant by its owners this place can never be anything other than a prison for those with too much money and too little good taste.