Re: Hunterston B shut down today

Jan 09, 2022 Last reply: 4 years ago 5 Replies

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newshound 4 years ago

charles snipped-for-privacy@candehope.me.uk> wrote

>> The Natural Philosopher snipped-for-privacy@invalid.invalid wrote >>> Spike wrote
>>>> Brian Gaff wrote
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>>>>> Incidentally, my friends ask why are Nuclear power stations
>>>>> so ugly, surely they could make them look better?
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>>>> Perhaps we could get them to be designed by ArtStudents (TM) >
>>>> <ducks and runs>
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>>> LOL! Great idea. Sizewell B is quite attractive. Rolls Royce's
>>> new SMR 'recommended housing' is also quite curvaceous
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>> I find Torness quite attractive in it's way. (just off the A1 near >> Dunbar)
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> Fark, I don?t. Far too many bits tacked on.
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That's not the best view, though. Wylfa is another that is quite striking, and rather less brutalist. It's still a big lump on an attractive rocky shoreline.

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The Natural Philosopher 4 years ago

Sizewell B is mostly hidden behind trees, but you can see it from the shoreline...very long lens here so image quality not fantastic

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Rod Speed 4 years ago

newshound snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote

And still too complicated to look good imo.

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newshound 4 years ago

Try to imagine it without the Dry Store (blocky white structure on seaward side) not there. That was tacked on later.

To my mind "arty" structures like the RR SMR artists' impression or the Diamond Light Source don't really look much better. Ultimately it's all a bit subjective. Which is better, the Millau viaduct, Golden Gate bridge, Clifton Suspension bridge, Sydney Harbour bridge and/or Opera House?

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The Natural Philosopher 4 years ago

OTOH nearly everybody loves the fake gothic of Tower Bridge, or the fake Greek/Roman on many a railways station.

I mean we could probably put a half timbered shell and a thatched roof on an SMR if people all agreed that would make it look nice.

The real problem is that architects are all engineers trying to be ArtStudents, where the game is not making something beautiful, or blending in, but making a PersonalStatement about the Artists/Architect.

Personally I'd like to see em made out of concrete with a stone cladding , castellations, embrasures, arrow slits and a drawbridge surrounded by moat so they could make a nice little earner from being part of the next sword and sorcery movie.

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