Maybe this is not worst? Another by Whinging Pom. Wilson.
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The Worst of Perth 
Worst because the garage has an unnecessarily high ceiling, as well as a terracotta serpent.
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And Manhattes Barkeep, the metal lattice is often associated with the colourbond fences we discussed before. To add that extra layer of worst privacy.
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Whats with the animals on top of the garage?
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Definitely Worst.
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Yep, no two ways about it. A worthy worst.
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And yet if it didn’t have it, would it be not worst?
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Keep the monster. Lose the building.
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Dunno if the owners are named accordingly, but the serpent/wyvern/dragon was in the heraldic shields of the Le Drac family which settled the Southwest of England as part of the Norman governance.
The name later morphed into Drake, of maritime
fame infamy.Or so I have been told.
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HTML Fail.
But you know what I mean.
Where’s the edit feature/ preview option when you need it??
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Some might view it as a kitschy bit of suburban decoration. I see it as a statement about the never ending sprawl of one time fashionable local building trends, the increasingly fortress like surrounds of low density developments and the loss of whimsy and magnificence in the hearts of the local architects.
Faced with a sea of orange brick, they’ve done the only thing any reasonable person would do – they built a sea monster on top of it.
But I ask myself – what is the real monster?
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BHP Tower.
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Should have named it Wilson Wagyl.
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…not McGowan oh please god not McGowan…
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Segue , segue , segue. Certainly the serpent would indicate that this person is behind the Mark McGowan for premier campaign. Long live the new Dripper.
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Don’t forget Labor pre-selection opens soon. Anybody (other than ABC employees) want to spend the next 4 years of their life on the Opposition benches listening to Emperor Barnett telling them how to suck eggs?
Thought not.
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I was born a Reece Whitby man…
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…lives in Shitty Beach, man of the people, etc
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There are problems with Labor party pre-selection and over Union representation that even Lannie McT acknowledges , my friend.
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You’re kidding?
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Wait? There’s a Wilson in Perth? I thought there was only enough room in WA for one Wilson. Although, perhaps he’s moved as his blog seems to be abandoned.
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Link? Let’s liven it up a little…
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Thanks for reminding me, Pete. Like everyone else, I’d completely forgotten about the useless prick. So, after all those years in Canberra, at last his utter irrelevance was revealed. A grand total of nine posts in 3 months. Zero comments. He’s probably dead for all I know, or care.
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One of 17 followers, http://australianteaparty.blogspot.com/
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There’s such a lot of material on the internet that defies both logic and verisimilitude.
The brain filter boggles at the mass of material
that it has to dispose ofof which it must dispose.LikeLike
In the bonny deeps of Wilson
An ancestral call was heard
To recreate old Nessie’s form
No matter how absurd
So they made a water beast
Despite the dearth of water
Good taste their only sacrifice
And not their teenage daughter
That monster now benign
She tops a brick garage
The neighbours are a canny lot
To smirk at the homage
But who laughs last I ask you
Devotees of The Block?
Nay – those who follow other dreams
Even to the laughing stock
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Hoots mon!
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Heh. Although Wilson’s not short of water. The Canning, aka bobbing turd river is right there.
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Fantastic work NF #1.
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Waterfront development bagged:
http://www.6000times.com/2012/01/perth-cbd-waterfront-redevelopment-10.html#more
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Nurries weighs in, at first blush:
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/opinion/post/-/blog/paulmurray/post/2560/comment/1/
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More food for the brain filter.
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http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/opinion/post/-/blog/paulmurray/post/2560/comment/1/
Nurries argument boils down to grass being boring. On that basis we should dig up the WACA and Subi oval.
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Not worst. Perth could do with more absurd theatricallity in its domestic architecture, liven the place up a bit. Terracotta sea snakes vs ‘vibrancy’- which would you rather have up yer yin-yang?
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