{"id":861,"date":"2008-04-13T16:09:35","date_gmt":"2008-04-13T14:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/13\/magnetic-north\/"},"modified":"2008-04-13T16:12:04","modified_gmt":"2008-04-13T14:12:04","slug":"magnetic-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/13\/magnetic-north\/","title":{"rendered":"magnetic north"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>recently on bbc four there was a two part documentary called &#8220;magnetic north&#8221; in which jonathan meades travelled from northern france to finland.<\/p>\n<p>whilst in finland he talks a bit about the local architecture:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/images\/20080413.01.jpg\" alt=\"magnetic north\" width=\"600\" height=\"347\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/images\/20080413.02.jpg\" alt=\"magnetic north\" width=\"600\" height=\"347\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>contrasting that of alvar aalto (above) to the national romantic style of saarinen, sonck etc. (below)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/images\/20080413.03.jpg\" alt=\"magnetic north\" width=\"600\" height=\"347\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/images\/20080413.04.jpg\" alt=\"magnetic north\" width=\"600\" height=\"347\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/images\/20080413.05.jpg\" alt=\"magnetic north\" width=\"600\" height=\"347\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/images\/20080413.06.jpg\" alt=\"magnetic north\" width=\"600\" height=\"347\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/images\/20080413.07.jpg\" alt=\"magnetic north\" width=\"600\" height=\"347\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/images\/20080413.08.jpg\" alt=\"magnetic north\" width=\"600\" height=\"347\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/images\/20080413.09.jpg\" alt=\"magnetic north\" width=\"600\" height=\"347\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/images\/20080413.10.jpg\" alt=\"magnetic north\" width=\"600\" height=\"347\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>aaltos buildings have always left me feeling cold &#8211; for me there is very little to enjoy about them (except when taking pictures at night time (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dw\/463645508\/\">1<\/a>) (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dw\/1381289\/\">2<\/a>)). they were, of course, a product of their time &#8211; reacting against what came before them. the national romantic style of a century ago came from a reaction too &#8211; part reactive, part proactive to their times.<\/p>\n<p>the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Dw6J9bYQ4XY\">show<\/a> is on youtube at the moment in multiple parts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>recently on bbc four there was a two part documentary called &#8220;magnetic north&#8221; in which jonathan meades travelled from northern france to finland. whilst in finland he talks a bit about the local architecture: contrasting that of alvar aalto (above) to the national romantic style of saarinen, sonck etc. (below) aaltos buildings have always left [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-finland","category-helsinki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}