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Thread #164754   Message #3947411
Posted By: Senoufou
01-Sep-18 - 04:13 AM
Thread Name: BS: Soviet era housing blocks!
Subject: RE: BS: Soviet era housing blocks!
We have 'Sovereign House' in Anglia Square, Norwich. It was built in the 1960s as Her Majesty's Stationery Office.

It's absolutely hideous (I can't do blue clicky thingies, sorry) and there have been plans drawn up to demolish and replace it - with some equally hideous stuff, including a massive tower block totally unsuited to the historic architecture of Norwich.

There are folk called the Norwich Society who are trying to prevent this development, and then some others who think the original building should be preserved as a Sixties icon.

I'm so glad we live out in the villages where nothing much is over two storeys high except ancient church towers.