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Newcastle-upon-Tyne gives me steampunk vibes [OC] (lemmy.world)
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Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne & Wear, England, UK.

A street scene in Newcastle's Quayside featuring the massive stone arches of a high-level railway viaduct towering over the roadway on the left. Through the largest arch, modern brick apartment buildings with balconies can be seen in the distance against a pale sky. To the right stands a traditional, multi-storey red brick pub named "The Dubliner", its facade brightly decorated with colourful hanging flower baskets and cascading strings of fairy lights above a dark green ground floor. Below, a road with pedestrian crossings, green traffic lights, and tall black lampposts runs beneath the viaduct. A few pedestrians stroll along the pavements, while a bright green car on the lower left and a beige SUV on the lower right navigate the street near a row of commercial wheelie bins nestled against the viaduct's imposing stone pillar.

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[–] 21 points 6 months ago (3 children)

This sort of thing is why I miss living in New York, the only place in the US that has architecture that’s even remotely close to this old.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I don’t disagree (I’m an Englishman who lives in NYC), but… Chicago, Philly and Boston have similar architecture

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago*

    Very true, but I never lived in either of those cities, lol

    And a lot of the older architecture in Philadelphia is rather elitist compared to the older architecture and both New York City and Boston, which is much more civil and populist. probably because of how much bigger both New York City and Boston were at the time compared to Philadelphia. Unless you want to compare the sewer systems, all of which were pretty awesome. Consider considering the periods.

    Not so much today

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    • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, here in Kansas City we have some exceedingly neat older buildings (my favorite being our Union Station) but nothing like this.

    I miss when humanity just built big, beautiful structures for the sake of having big, beautiful structures and not everything was cheap and optimized.

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    • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Pressure washing that would be so satisfying

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    • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    Appropriate since lots of the industrial revolution happened oop north.

    Also when I assume the phrase "sending coal to Newcastle" got coined. Don't take this statement as fact, refer to the quote in my profile

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    [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    Love Newcastle, loads to see for architecture lovers. Everywhere you look there's something interesting. Could watch the Gateshead bridge go up and down all day.

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    [+] 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)
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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    The term "viaduct" doesn't really say anything about it's design. In Latin, "via" means road and "duct" means to lead. "Aqueduct" means a structure that leads water. A "viaduct bridge" is a road that reverses an obstacle on s bridge, no matter the design of said bridge.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago*

    The etymological root of the word has little bearing on that word's meaning in modern usage, tho I've never heard the term "viaduct bridge" to mean "designed to look like an aquaduct" before. As far as I'm aware they're both just pillar bridges, one specifically for carrying water...

    A viaduct is a bridge that consists of a series of arches, piers or columns supporting a long elevated railway or road. Typically a viaduct connects two points of roughly equal elevation, allowing direct overpass across a wide valley, road, river, or other low-lying terrain features and obstacles.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    We've got a lot of them, if there's one thing the Victorians loved more than industrialisation and traditions from the history of England, it was importing architecture and decoration from ancient history of Greece and Rome.

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    • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Visit Meadow Well, experience Fallout

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