Got a proper hearing with a proper judge and two QCs duking it out on both sides. Phenomenal building - if as you say maybe a bit tatty in the upstairs courts.
I'm used to grubbing round the lower courts. Beats Croydon Employment Tribunal!
I spent many "happy" [sic] hours there as a trainee, being passed from pillar to post dealing with some procedural rubbish, being turned away for only having papers in duplicate rather than triplicate, having the wrong stamp, or turning up at some office or other outside the core hours of 14.05 to 14.14.
They are both poor architecture in very different ways - Rolls is just done on the extreme cheap, RCJ on the other hand has a harry potter theme park vibe that so many mid-late victorian buildings had after the simple clean grandeur of the Georgian and early Victorian era (now those guys knew how to design buildings) was lost.
Guy you're such an old stick-in-the-mud. It's true the front of the RCJ is a bit silly but that's part of the fun. It's no sillier than plenty of actual gothic buildings. And the main hall (or whatever you call it) isn't fussy at all; it's a lovely simple space.
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what is?
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The Rolls Building or the RCJ?
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Would be a bit weird to post that about the Rolls Building.
The RCJ is beautiful, if a bit bare in the back rooms.
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RCJ.
Got a proper hearing with a proper judge and two QCs duking it out on both sides. Phenomenal building - if as you say maybe a bit tatty in the upstairs courts.
I'm used to grubbing round the lower courts. Beats Croydon Employment Tribunal!
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I spent many "happy" [sic] hours there as a trainee, being passed from pillar to post dealing with some procedural rubbish, being turned away for only having papers in duplicate rather than triplicate, having the wrong stamp, or turning up at some office or other outside the core hours of 14.05 to 14.14.
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The big spire right out in front often has a peregrine (or both the resident pair) sitting up on it. Worth a gander before you step in.
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Nah, if I want history I will go to a national trust property - give me a modern court with proper facilities any time.
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(not a shit one like the Rolls Building though obvs)
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Find the pillar with a slice missing as an acknowledgement from the architect that his building could not be perfect and thereby pretend to godship.
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We certainly don't build public buildings like we used to.
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Anyway the RCJ is high victoriana, fussy pastiche architecture with little merit. In my opinion a bad time for architecture.
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the Rolls Building is a travesty of public architecture. Even the entrance plays 2nd or 3rd fiddle to a the grander office entry and Pret
so humiliating to see the fall of the nation illustrated by the contrast between the RCJ and the Rolls Building
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They are both poor architecture in very different ways - Rolls is just done on the extreme cheap, RCJ on the other hand has a harry potter theme park vibe that so many mid-late victorian buildings had after the simple clean grandeur of the Georgian and early Victorian era (now those guys knew how to design buildings) was lost.
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I think the RCJ predated Harry Potter
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Indeed but like a Harry Potter theme park it is a gothic pastiche.
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We certainly don't build public buildings like we used to.
I would hope we dont. I am not against grand buildings, but they need to be modern.
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Maybe they could turn it into a Harry Potter theme park for weekends
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thats a good plan, they already have a great hall
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If I win the Euromillions I'm building a gothich pastiche castle and then insisting that Guy comes to stay.
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Anyone been in the RCJ when there's a carol concert on? The acoustics are spellbinding.
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Guy you're such an old stick-in-the-mud. It's true the front of the RCJ is a bit silly but that's part of the fun. It's no sillier than plenty of actual gothic buildings. And the main hall (or whatever you call it) isn't fussy at all; it's a lovely simple space.
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Heh, I like the idea of being a "stuck in the mud" for not liking that new-fangled Victorian Gothic.
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Exactly! Georgian classicism only please!
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