The British landscape is marked with grandiose architectural indulgences, from the ruins of gothic towers built by slave owners to columns that commemorate long-ago battles. Eccentric architecture is such a national tradition – kept very much alive today by Grayson Perry’s House for Essex with its gingerbread Hansel and Gretel nuttiness – that the English language even cherishes the formal architectural term, “folly”: an extravagant, decorative, apparently useless building. Apparently useles… (View original article)
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