Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne & Wear, England, UK.
This sort of thing is why I miss living in New York, the only place in the US that has architecture that’s even remotely close to this old.
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I don’t disagree (I’m an Englishman who lives in NYC), but… Chicago, Philly and Boston have similar architecture
Oh my god… Sting?!
Very true, but I never lived in either of those cities, lol
And a lot of the older architecture in Philadelphia is rather elitist compared to the older architecture and both New York City and Boston, which is much more civil and populist. probably because of how much bigger both New York City and Boston were at the time compared to Philadelphia. Unless you want to compare the sewer systems, all of which were pretty awesome. Consider considering the periods.
Not so much today
Ummm, maybe you've never been to Boston? Or, Plymouth, MA... or, lots of New England.
Dumb thing to say.
Yeah, here in Kansas City we have some exceedingly neat older buildings (my favorite being our Union Station) but nothing like this.
I miss when humanity just built big, beautiful structures for the sake of having big, beautiful structures and not everything was cheap and optimized.
It was more that they didn’t understand how to optimise, so to keep it from falling apart they built bigger.
Also free labour
at that height I wondered if it was Roman, apparently it is "viaduct bridge", which is a type of bridge designed to look like an aqueduct.
The term "viaduct" doesn't really say anything about it's design. In Latin, "via" means road and "duct" means to lead. "Aqueduct" means a structure that leads water. A "viaduct bridge" is a road that reverses an obstacle on s bridge, no matter the design of said bridge.
The etymological root of the word has little bearing on that word's meaning in modern usage, tho I've never heard the term "viaduct bridge" to mean "designed to look like an aquaduct" before. As far as I'm aware they're both just pillar bridges, one specifically for carrying water...
We've got a lot of them, if there's one thing the Victorians loved more than industrialisation and traditions from the history of England, it was importing architecture and decoration from ancient history of Greece and Rome.
Appropriate since lots of the industrial revolution happened oop north.
Also when I assume the phrase "sending coal to Newcastle" got coined. Don't take this statement as fact, refer to the quote in my profile
Pressure washing that would be so satisfying
That patina makes it incredible. Anyone caught power-washing that stone goes straight to the stockades.
On the outside sure, but on the inside of the arch it's just 100 years of cars and buses
Love Newcastle, loads to see for architecture lovers. Everywhere you look there's something interesting. Could watch the Gateshead bridge go up and down all day.
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