your architects were madmen, your builders sane but drunk

Which is the odd one out? Oh I love that game in “Have I got News For You”.

Answers on a postcard, in the meantime I will concoct a convoluted answer.

royal courts of justicegreenwich naval college
st.paul's soho square

Images of London, for a project. Do not adjust your tv sets, this is black and white. No, I haven’t lost my coloured paints.

7 thoughts on “your architects were madmen, your builders sane but drunk

  1. amillionpieces says:
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    I think Soho Square because the others were all built after the great fire of london but the building in the square survived the fire? (Hey, I’m not a Londoner so don’t hold poor guesses against me!)

  2. petescully says:
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    Hmmm, not bad, completely wrong but gives me an idea, my still-to-be-concocted convoluted answer may now be along those lines…
    (after all, the Great fire never reached Soho, Greenwich or the Strand, stopping just a block away)
    cheers!

  3. amillionpieces says:
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    My guess before that would have been Christopher Wren – but the Courts of Justice are too modern for that, right? Unless he designed St Pauls and the Naval College and the Courts were built much later but to his original plan?

  4. petescully says:
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    Yeah I wish I’d thought of that before choosing the pictures, since Wren did do two of them, but the royal courts of justice are late 19th century, and wren wasn’t really into neo-gothic, so that one’s out. I think my convoluted answer will be closer to your first answer.

  5. Kathleen says:
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    I just came by because Andrea linked you from a post on her blog. Anyway, I’d have to say that three are in London and one is in Greenwich, which is NOT London.

  6. petescully says:
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    Thanks for stopping by! And, nope…
    On the right lines though. Greenwich is very much in London: Greater London, as are Soho and Westminster. However the only one of these that’s in the City of London is St.Paul’s. (Also the only one rebuilt as a result of the Great Fire).

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