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Eyesore of the Month July 2025
kunstler.com ^ | 9 Jul, 2025 | James Howard Kunstler

Posted on 07/14/2025 6:05:56 AM PDT by MtnClimber

This slumping row-house in London’s Charterhouse Square is not a “building” per se, but rather an objet-d’art from the Stunt-and-Clutter school of contemporary art called “A Week at the Knees” by one Alex Chinneck. I confess, I don’t even get the verbal gag. Seems like a non-sequitur to me. But so is most of the production from Stunt-and-Clutter Ltd.

The aim is to astound the public with startling originality. Since there are no longer that many new things under the sun, this calls for ever more extreme ventures into the absurd and hallucinatory. Between the general overload of Internet-generated info civilized folks are subjected to these days, and the new over-lay of paranormal mischief inherent to artificial intelligence, we are becoming a society increasingly untethered from reality.

So, then it must be celebrated, right? As we celebrate every other psychical abnormality foisted on us by the grant recipients of what passes for the culture industry.

One might say what you get here is a perfect domicile for the drug-addled homeless. Living in the tunnel created by this undulation, they could find exactly the kind of home that suits them, without sacrificing their identity as "homeless.” Genius!!

Salutes to J. David Green for the nomination!


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: alexchinneck; architecture; charterhousesquare; london; unitedkingdom

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1 posted on 07/14/2025 6:05:56 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: Robert A Cook PE

Eyesore of the Month July 2025 ping


2 posted on 07/14/2025 6:06:19 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

The stupidity of some “artists” is proof of their mental instability.


3 posted on 07/14/2025 6:12:18 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: MtnClimber

It’s quirky, but I’ve seen worse. Much worse.


4 posted on 07/14/2025 6:14:22 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: MtnClimber

Guy must have a big dog.


5 posted on 07/14/2025 6:22:05 AM PDT by ZOOKER
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To: MtnClimber
If it was actually done in brick, I sort of like it, particularly as a challenge to the brick layer. If not, it's just another fake.

\ I wouldn't want to own it, but someone might get a charge out of it every time they deal with its absurdities. I only have to muse upon it once, which is quite enough. To each his own. It will be interesting to see how it weathers.

6 posted on 07/14/2025 6:35:44 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: Moltke

I’ll take it over a Hunter Biden painting any day.


7 posted on 07/14/2025 6:42:03 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: MtnClimber
This slumping row-house in London’s Charterhouse Square is not a “building” per se

Appears to be based on the location and the architectural form of Florin Court melted with design elements of the surrounding buildings (e.g. the windows, brick).

"Florin Court is an Art Deco / Streamline Moderne Grade II residential building on the eastern side of Charterhouse Square in Smithfield, London."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florin_Court


8 posted on 07/14/2025 7:00:55 AM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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To: j.havenfarm
I’ll take upside down houses…


9 posted on 07/14/2025 7:03:13 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”s)
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To: MtnClimber

Alternate titles for this masterwork:
“Drunken Facade, awaiting Gin-Soaked Sluts Neglecting their Babes, a la Hogarth”; or, the economical,
“Brick Gumby”


10 posted on 07/14/2025 7:22:05 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: Ezekiel

Or a multitude of Hundertwasser houses...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hundertwasser+houses&ia=images&iax=images


11 posted on 07/14/2025 7:30:53 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: Ezekiel

Or a multitude of Hundertwasser houses...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hundertwasser+houses&ia=images&iax=images


12 posted on 07/14/2025 7:30:53 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: MtnClimber
The Cleveland mental health clinic in Las Vegas...


13 posted on 07/14/2025 7:32:33 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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To: aquila48

I forwarded that to Kunstler. I don’t know if he has featured it yet, but it is a great candidate. Who would design a mental health clinic that looks like that?


14 posted on 07/14/2025 7:51:07 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Moltke

At least is isn’t violet or chartreuse.


15 posted on 07/14/2025 8:24:47 AM PDT by bgill
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To: aquila48
The Cleveland mental health clinic in Las Vegas...

Paging Dr. Caligari.....


16 posted on 07/14/2025 8:28:30 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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To: MtnClimber

The new building at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester,MN also begs the question of why.

https://dmc.mn/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Kellen-high-res-rendering-1536x865.png


17 posted on 07/14/2025 8:40:31 AM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: MtnClimber

” Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”” - Cleon Skousen


18 posted on 07/14/2025 8:43:36 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (TDS much?)
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To: aquila48

Certainly can’t blame Cleveland for sending it away.


19 posted on 07/14/2025 8:46:12 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: MtnClimber

What a waste of perfectly good brick. Wonder how it will do under a few heavy loads of snow in coming years?


20 posted on 07/14/2025 9:28:19 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Think about it: The Supreme Court is nine lawyers appointed for life by politicians. —David Horowitz)
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