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oldgradstudent on Dec 2, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: A medieval Gothic monastery built using CAD / CAM

Not sure if it counts as Victorian Gothic, but The Natural History Museum in London is one of the most delightful building I've seen.

Not only the general architecture, but all the natural history theme that applies to all the Gothic design elements. Animals replacing Gargoyles, etc.

A beautiful building.

adhesive_wombat on Dec 2, 2023 [–]

Just down the road was the Imperial Institute [1], built in the 1880s. It was demolished in 1957 and now it looks like this [2] and this [3].

[1]: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Imperial_Institute.j...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sherfield_Building_over_Q...

[3]: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Imperial_College_Bus...

oldgradstudent on Dec 3, 2023 | [–]

You sometime have to wonder what they hell they were thinking. Who in their right mind would replace [1] by [2] and [3]?

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