Comments on: Architecture 100 :: 3 – Swiss Chalet in Kent

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:20:35 +0000

I am glad you enjoyed it

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:20:10 +0000

The structure took me by surprise, but I was even more surprised when I looked into the history of it.

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:19:25 +0000

I found it interesting too.

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:19:06 +0000

You always have friends if you have money. Money talks

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:17:58 +0000

A Swiss Chalet would not have such an interesting history to go with it though

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:16:57 +0000

I had never heard of it either, my FIL took me there when I was visiting at the weekend.

By: the quiet photographer

the quiet photographer — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:21:52 +0000

I did not know this fact, thank you for posting.
robert

By: Claude

Claude — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:01:11 +0000

The architecture is so unbritish. Amazing that he would write those very atmospheric English books in that setting.

By: missing moments

missing moments — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:21:07 +0000

Interesting .. nice to see where he did his work.

By: Bernard

Bernard — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:34:30 +0000

“He constructed it in the second part of his garden which was across the Rochester road. In time he built a tunnel under the road…….”
Obviously he had a few friends in the Local Council Planning dept.