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Old 10-01-2020, 06:49 PM   #398 (permalink)
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I love the viewing deck on that Mountain Retreat house, and the old photo of the Overview residence.

Not residential, but famous are the following:-

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Both designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, who was clearly unfazed by the size of a project.

His son was an architect too, and got the prestigious job of extending London's Guildhall, a kind of nerve-racking commision because the Guildhall, through various incarnations, dated back to Saxon times:-



See the strange black curve in the paving? That's a marker indicating the position of a Roman amphitheatre which was discovered while they were excavating for the new building.
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