Every bit of engineering/construction in this Monet painting of Westminster was new when painted (1871)



Which blows my mind a bit.
Also, Richard Morris is a good follow

by ChillBetty

4 comments
  1. Ah scrolling through twitter/reddit on a Saturday night and finding interesting things, decided to stay in today and enjoying it

  2. This is what I find so upsetting about the “preserving the historic skyline” argument when it was initially trampled all over by these buildings.

    Personally I think there’s nothing cooler than to sit outside bank or london liverpool street and think:

    > heh, when these places were originally built they were probably the tallest at the time

    as they are now clearly outscaled by much later construction. Things change and we each get to experience our own generation of that change!

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