No idea where to go | Skyline Deadline Part 34 скачать в хорошем качестве

No idea where to go | Skyline Deadline Part 34

In Part 34 of Skyline Deadline, we explore the peculiar, often hostile landscapes surrounding Heathrow Airport. The journey takes us through the high-tech business park of Stockley Park and into Cranford, where the 1930s vision of the "Road to Bath" still lingers in the work of architect Ernest Brander Musman. The atmosphere is one of displacement. While Robinson and his companion shelter in the air-conditioned atrium of the Terminal 4 Hilton—a space famously admired by J.G. Ballard—the UK government is narrowly surviving the Maastricht vote in Westminster. The contrast is stark: the sleek, international sterility of the airport versus the messy, incomprehensible nature of national politics. Filmed between 1992 and 2026, this installment features rare tracking of vanished fuel depots and the architectural evolution of Hounslow and Feltham. It concludes with Robinson’s recurring dilemma: a profound desire to leave the country, but with absolutely no idea where to go. #LondonHistory #Psychogeography #Heathrow #JGBallard #UrbanWalking #Architecture #SkylineDeadline #Hounslow #StockleyPark #Modernism Transcript The next day we explored the landscapes that surround the airport. By nightfall we had reached Cranford, on the Great West Road. We spent the evening in a large tandoori restaurant, writing up our notes, and stayed the night in a hotel just across the road. The next day was hot, and we spent it in the atrium of the air-conditioned Hilton. In the late afternoon we came out and walked along the road next to the runway, until we came to Hatton Cross, where we took the underground home. The next day, we came back again... It was November 4th, the night of the first Maastricht vote, and the government faced possible defeat for the second time in two weeks, but they held on again, with a majority of three. We watched the interviews, first with an obscure MP from Norfolk who had changed his mind at the last minute, and then with one from Staffordshire, who hadn't, but we could make no sense of either of them. Robinson began to talk, as he often did, of leaving the country, but as always, he had no idea where to go. Locations and filming dates Stockley Park, 13 October 1992 and 3 December 2022 Junction of Bath Road and Berkeley Avenue, Cranford, 10 November 1992 and 3 December 2022 Berkeley Arms Hotel, Cranford, 10 November 1992 and 3 December 1992 Hilton Hotel, Terminal 4, Heathrow, 13 October 1992 and 3 December 2022 Myrtle Avenue, Hounslow, 10 November 1992 and 28 January 2023 Fuel storage tanks, West Bedfont, 5 November 1992 and 21 August 2025 Great South West Road, Feltham, 5 November 1992 and 21 August 2025 The Parkway, Hounslow, 5 November 1992 and 8 February 2026 College Green, Westminster, 4 November 1992 and 10 February 2026 Notes Building B8 at Stockley Park was designed by lan Ritchie Architects. I made a separate 5-minute film about this which is also on my channel. The ensemble on three corners of the junction of Bath Road and Berkeley Avenue was by architect Ernest Brander Musman. The petrol station was originally thatched. 'Nowhere else in London's outskirts is to be seen more ingenious architectural fun. Before many years it should have a rich nostalgic charm.' - John Piper, 'London to Bath', Architectural Revien 85 (1939), 230. The hotel (1932) now forms part of the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel London Heathrow Airport. The T4 Hilton was designed by Michael Manser Associates, admired by J G Ballard. Upon leaving the London Underground station at Terminal 4 the only exit out of the airport was through a walkway to this hotel and even then there was no pedestrian exit. I had to walk down the vehicle ramp to get out and to “walk along the road next to the runway”. The fuel storage tanks site was redeveloped in 1996 as a cargo depot and again in 2019 for the same use. The exact location took a lot of tracking down. Havelock Road was partially renamed to Guru Nanak Road in 2021. The original shot was presumably of a gazebo adjacent to the original gurdwara on Havelock Road. The new gurdwara was opened in 2003 and has a capacity of 3,000 people.