Wednesday, March 18, 2015

COSTA COFFEE IN BRIGG – NOT MUCH LONGER TO WAIT



Here’s a progress picture Brigg Blog took at  the weekend, showing how the new Costa Coffee building is coming along nicely.
They are busy converting the former Poundstretcher store, on Wrawby Street.
The classical style pillars either side of the new shop frontage add a touch of style and fit in well with the conservation area. Greek or Roman? Over to you, Ken Harrison, to spill the beans!

Can we suggest the shop front will  have Costa pretty penny by the time it's completed?

A reminder of how the Brigg town centre premises used to look.

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3 comments:

  1. Ken Harrison18 March 2015 at 18:52

    Both the Greeks and Romans used fluted Ionic columns...but on the whole they were cylindrical.
    In some architectural features a row of cylindrical columns were supported by squared piers on corner sections.
    Obviously, the shop's features do not really support anything and are there as purely decorative ..
    Nevertheless, one could say that the piers are decorative door posts, pretending to support a frieze - which, if real, would be sculptured with all- action figurines, ie Elgin Marbles....in reality, the posts will give the impression of supporting the 'Costa Coffee' sign...
    It' amazing what can be achieved with a plank of wood and a router....
    In Greek/Roman days length of rock would be progressive rounded on a massive rotating lathe...and once that was achieved, the flutes would be chiselled out....In later times, cannons were turned on a lathe and the barrel drilled out...

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  2. Ken Harrison18 March 2015 at 19:15

    B4 anyone thinks that Romans were able to manhandle massive columns....the columns/piers were built in sections, like Lego, a tower of beer cans.
    When Christopher Wren built St Pauls, his sponsors believed the dome would collapse and insisted that CW built supporting columns....he did, but what could not be seen from the ground was that the columns did not actually reach the dome....there is a 1 inch gap....
    Such was the faith CW had in the strength of his unsupported dome....

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  3. Ken Harrison19 March 2015 at 10:34

    In another posting, Nige you mention the vanishing point....
    While we're on the subject of architecture, the columns on the Parthenon appear to rise and remain vertical when viewed from the ground....this is a designed optical illusion as the columns learn sideways ....
    Here's a few questions:
    1. On a regular arch constructed from blocks, which block is the most important ie carries the greatest weight?
    2. The towers on the Humber Bridge are about a mile apart....They are each perfectly vertical, yet the centre lines of towers are about 20 in (50cm) further apart at the top.....Why?

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