Lions and Neptune and Imps, oh my!

[gnommi]

Crabby creatures seemed to throng my way to work yesterday.





The lions looked cold and unimpressed, Neptune pissed off, the imp... well, impish.
Once you start to notice these things, you see civic art, putti and random animals all over. My walk to work included Brunel, two Neptunes, an elephant, several cherubs and seraphim (some limbless), imps, devils, satyrs, a penguin and some raging foamy horses.

Comments

[prosepina.livejournal.com]

you've reminded me I did the same thing last week with the meat market. Must post pics soon!

[squidflakes.livejournal.com]

Alas, we get no such awesome here. Everything is shining glass and steel and unadorned. If there are some older buildings left, they are of the school of design that said "Right, well.. if we just make it look like a prison on the outside..."

[allyourbrains.livejournal.com]

This town/city really lacks details on buildings like that.. Most houses look like they've been built to be a place you can stuff people into (probably somewhere between 1930 and 1950?).. well, I suppose they were! And the trend goes on. I'm just glad for the mostly-glass stuff they build as office-buildings nowadays, a welcome change from blocks of concrete.

/rant