Tayside House Project
HOW TO SURVIVE
THE APOCALYPSE
By Pete and John
THIS is the work of an exceptionally gifted guitarist- the 3 chords message commemorates a 1 man rock concert carried out on the empty floor 16 one Saturday, you could hear him playing on floor 12.
I am assured there is some video…
DEAR OCCUPIER
A letter to those who live in the shadow of ‘the house’. Now is the time.
LEND ME YOUR HANDS…
LAST DAY OF TAYSIDE HOUSE
Now The property of the Demolition company these images were taken in the last week as everything was striped out of the building. The post-apocalyptic messages were my favourite. If anyone wants to sign their work, please get in touch…
WORK HARD
Tayside House has been handed over to the Demolition Company SafeDem, who will carefully unpick it. Images of the naked floors and walls scrawled with post-apocalyptic farewell messages will follow shortly and magnificently.
In the meantime I have two galleries, one from the flat and another of an instillation at the foot of the building… This is a joke for Ken Giblin who has a knack for arranging industrial materials in very interesting ways.
(Favourite parts of this gallery: the Wedge, good use of space; closely followed by the word ‘GRIT’)
and be nice to people.
Imagery that questions as much as insights. If your response to these images does not move you to action then you bare no responsibility to react.
SPECTOR
Chairs
Publications
Mr Blair-Smart.
Mr Blair-Smart was responsible for maintaining the telephone system in Tayside House between 1975 and 1982.
(more to follow)
Cuttings
Blow.
Blackblock
HALF AND HALF
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent.
FALCON FOuCAULT
HOUSE ISLAND
A RECENT TOUR
(now, here’s a strange thing)
Like the the power station towers, static engines, smoking, sleek blocks sat squat on the flat earth next to the sea. You pass them on the drive to Newcastle. Like them, this building breathes. In in the spaces right at the top, the half-floors, the half-sized and massive spaces at the top of ladders are whole rooms where the air is picked apart.
They say if someone on floor 3 has a cold in Tayside House you’ll catch it 10 floors up.
EVENING TELEGRAPH – March 8th
