#Sydenham Hill

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A Walk On The Mild Side

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The Ruins, Sydenham Hill, London

Tucked in woodland off Sydenham Hill in south London sits a sham ruin. Although it is now hard to imagine, it was once a feature of the ‘beautiful grounds’ of Fairwood, an elegant newly-built villa. This area of London was very much in vogue in the middle of the 19th century, after the arrival of the relocated Crystal Palace put it on the map, and Sydenham Hill became home to a number of…

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Introducing the Ageless Charm of Style: A Journey With Design and Self-Expression

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£108,000 Lottery grant helps to 'reunite' Great North Wood

New pathway: Dulwich Wood and Sydenham Hill Wood will be brought together for the first time in more than a century Two of the last surviving fragments of the ancient Great North Wood are to be “reunited” in an exciting and innovative project led by the London Wildlife Trust, funded by cash from the National Lottery, which aims to preserve and enhance “a priceless and irreplaceable green…

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-Near Sydenham Hill, Looking towards Lower Norwood-

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Our new Modernism Beyond Metro-Land guidebook features many architects, working in a variety of styles and materials. Walter Segal’s work is unique among them for its focus on self building and use of timber. The borough of Lewisham was the first place to embrace his ideas, which have subsequently spread around the suburbs and beyond. 

After a number of years designing small projects such as houses, flats and offices, largely in brick, Segal began to explore timber construction with a temporary annexe whilst his house in Highgate was being rebuilt, devising a self build system using widely available and low cost materials, in standard units. He saw how anybody could use the system to construct their own homes, and via the anarchist writer and architect Colin Ward, found a sympathetic reception at Lewisham Borough Council. They eventually allowed him some land to start building in Forest Hill, constructing 7 homes in what would be named Segal Close.

Other houses were built in Ormanton Road and Longton Avenue, Sydenham and Elstree Hill, Ravensbourne, all using the Segal method and producing houses built with timber frames and infill panels. Another plot of land was given over for self building in Honor Oak Park, where 13 two-storey timber houses were completed in 1986, and the street named Walter’s Way. 

The borough’s own architects department also took inspiration from Segal's ideas, with the scheme at Brockley Park, next to Segal Close, designed by Geoffrey Wigfall, using mono pitched homes built in brick and finished with timber cladding and grass roofs. Some of the houses feature “pods” at the front, to be used for extra living or storage space, and the estate is grouped around a large green space. 

Segal passed away in 1985 but his ideas persisted with self build projects appearing all around the capital's suburbs, with collaborator Jon Broome continuing the philosophy with his own practice Architype. Self-built projects can be found at Headway Gardens in Walthamstow, Parish Gardens in Greenwich, Eridge Green Close in Bromley and opposite Segal Close in Brockley Park, as well as at many other sites around the suburbs. Walter Segal’s self-build houses will have an extended section in our Modernism Beyond Metroland guidebook, now at 94% of its crowdfunding total. Get your copy here https://unbound.com/books/modernism-beyond-metro-land/

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A reading list from The Sims (2000) game guide

Here are some titles that might enhance your understanding of some of the background and social issues entertained in The Sims.

Warning: all are filled with provocative ideas; Maxis disavows any responsibility for encouraging deep thought.

1. Home: A Short History of an Idea by Witold Rybczynski (July 1987), Penguin USA; ISBN: 0140102310

2. Notes on the Synthesis of Form by Christopher W. Alexander (June 1970), Harvard University Press; ISBN: 0674627512

3. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein (1977), Oxford University Press (Trade); ISBN: 0195019199

4. Architecture: Form, Space, & Order by Frank D. K. Ching, Francis D. Ching (February 1996), John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 0471286168

5. Housing by Lifestyle: The Component Method of Residential Design by James W. Wentling (November 1994), McGraw-Hill; ISBN: 0070692939

6. Time for Life: The Surprising Ways Americans Use Their Time by John P. Robinson, Geoffrey Godbey (Contributor), Robert Putnam (June 1997), Pennsylvania State University Press (Trade); ISBN: 0271016523

7. Maps of the Mind by C. Hampden-Turner (March 1982), MacMillan Publishing Company; ISBN: 0025477404

8. Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life by David D. Friedman (September 1997), HarperCollins; ISBN: 0887308856

9. Making the Most of Your Llama by Linda C. Beattie (Editor), Araneen Witmer (Illustrator), Kathyrn Doll (Editor), Dr. Linda Beattie (September 1998), Kopacetic Ink; ISBN: 0961963417

10. Finding Your Perfect Love by Arthur Clark, Cassandra Skouras (January 1998), Rosebud Press; ISBN: 0965276902

11. The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size by Tor Norretranders, Jonathan Sydenham (Translator) (April 1998), Viking Press; ISBN: 0670875791

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The fire and destruction of The Crystal Palace in 1936. I have just come across some amazing coloured pictures of the disaster, and pictures I havnt seen before. The Crystal Palace, made from cast iron and glass was originally built in Hyde Park to house the Great Exhibition in 1851. Remarkably, once the Exhibition had finished, a group of businessmen decided to move it, piece by piece to Sydenham Hill 1852. On the evening of November 30th 1936, a small fire had started in the women's cloakroom, two employees who had started fighting it, soon realised that it was getting out of hand and called Penge Fire Brigade. 89 fire engines and over 400 fireman eventually arrived to tackle the blaze, but within hours due to the high winds, it took only a matter of hours to destroy the building. (The fire had caught the timber flooring, and along with the huge amount of inflammable material within the building as well, accelerated the fire.) It was estimated that a crowd of 100,000 Londoners came to see the blaze during the night and following morning, including Winston Churchill, who said, "This is the end of an age" John Logie Baird had been using the the lower level of the Palace for testing his "Mechanical Television" experiments, and much of his work was destroyed in the fire. Laird suspected the the fire was sabotage because of certain objections to his work. But the true cause of the fire remained unknown. Certain demolition was done to make it safe, and both towers were brought down, it was rumoured because they could act as beacons to the predicted arrival of German bombers in the expected forthcoming war. Soon, I hope to eventually go and see the site and what's left of the Palace, it's always been a cause of great fascination to me. Pics, 1,2,and 3 show the morning after. Pics. 4, 5 and 6 shows the extensive damage. Pics. 7 and 8 show demolition work underway, and the one of the towers coming down. Pic. 9 shows the skeleton of the main building. Pic. 10. The Palace in all it's magnificence.

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Victorian Folly Ruins in Sydenham Hill Woods

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So long 2022! Let's not pretend it was a great year. It was memorable but not in a good way. My deepening obsession with cheery eco-disaster and tropical apocalypses continued- a theme I explored with the New York Times over a frighteningly hot summer in London. But I was supremely lucky to work with such fabulous people. Thank you, Sam and everyone at BAReps. After extended Covid delays Camley Street Nature Reserve opened and bloomed. Finally seeing the artwork I created with the talented Chris Angelkov for the London Wildlife Trust was a highlight. In south London, Sydenham Hill Wood got a makeover with new location boards that Chris and I designed. Here's a selection of Automatic pencil-on-paper drawings for the New York Times, Final vinyl out in the wild for the supremely talented Vertical Cat and some edible illustrations for Apple, plus some Kung-fu concept work for the ever-amazing Nicolas Menard #drawing #celynbrazier #celyn #newyorktimes #editorialillustration #celynbrazier #celyn #nytimes #barepsldn #londonwildlifetrust #vertical_cat_music #verticalcat https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm6UXLNMfDt/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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i thought it might be nice to do ~progress reports on whatever i’m doing in cities skylines since i just started a new city. i’ve never done it before but idk i think it might be nice one day to look back at how the city grew. assuming i stick with this one lol

soooo, last night:

i did some roads leading up to the Hills (haha) suburbs, which will be like, the eastern suburbs here. so the side closer to the city (the bottom part) will be richer people, and the part at the top will be poorer people because they’ll be close to the airport and industry. where the small roundabout is, i’m thinking of turning it into industry (as well as a bus and tram depot (and garbage/recycling)), esp once i get rid of the industrial smog crap on the ground. because lbr irl the kind of industrial things you find around... idk, sydenham and silverwater etc, isn’t that pollute-y on the environment

am still working out the city/capital! i’m going for a melbourne grid vibe this time

i just think the rocks are fancy/more realistic than what i’ve done previously

city stuff/attractions all not connected yet. or laid out. or put in parks, idki just threw down some nice ones and i’ll figure it out later

and finally (i probably spent the most time on this lol), i added to an already fancy trumpet interchange so that trucks etc can get to the cargo port easily! 

i’ll fill the circles in with trees/grass/idk later, when it’s all finalised, because i’m sure i’ll still be adding more ramps to it

anyway that’s all for now~

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Freelance Reflections #148

Last weekend I saw friend and artist Natalie Cooper at the open studios at The Paxton Centre after treating myself to lunch at the Chatsworth Bakehouse, and mooched about afterwards seeing more art, before walking back via Sydenham Wells Park to see the sunset. Cheese-free pizza! Sunday was the Forest Hill Stanza, which had both familiar and new faces and managed to put me in a good mood. Aside…

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Forest Hill & Sydenham Examiner (London) - Friday 20 January 1911

Source: British Newspaper Archive

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