Showing posts with label anglia square. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anglia square. Show all posts
Thursday, 5 September 2013
The Dead Birds of Sovereign House
The remains of dead birds - I assume pigeons - in the derelict Sovereign House, Norwich. They get in, can't get back out, die. Yet with nothing to scavenge the corpses, they are left to rot into an almost exquisitely delicate-looking state of crystal fragility.
HMSO Walk pt 1
An afternoon stroll around the beautiful decay of Sovereign House, Norwich, the little-loved former HMSO building, now derelict for over a decade.
Saturday, 1 December 2012
Friday, 8 April 2011
Her Majesty's Pleasure: Sovereign House HMSO, Anglia Square pt 1
Built, along with the rest of the brutalist Anglia Square complex, in the late 1960s / early 1970s, the office block Sovereign House - former headquarters for the city's Her Majesty's Stationary Office - has stood empty since the late 1990s.
The building looms large over Anglia Square. Of particular note are the two gorgeous spiral staircases on the sides of the building. (Perhaps only a flase rumour, but I have heard that these act as quite dangerous wind-tunnels, slamming doors all the way up to the top).
The side facing away from the precinct has been used for sanctioned graffiti competitions in the past. The current plans to flatten Anglia Square and rework the area would see the building's inevitable demolition.
The building looms large over Anglia Square. Of particular note are the two gorgeous spiral staircases on the sides of the building. (Perhaps only a flase rumour, but I have heard that these act as quite dangerous wind-tunnels, slamming doors all the way up to the top).
The side facing away from the precinct has been used for sanctioned graffiti competitions in the past. The current plans to flatten Anglia Square and rework the area would see the building's inevitable demolition.
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