"......slaughter our tenants?"
The Scene:
A large posh office. Two clients, well-dressed city gents, sit facing a large table at which stands Mr. Tid, the account manager of the architectural firm. (original cast: Mr Tid, Graham Chapman; Mr Wiggin, John Cleese; City Gent One, Michael Palin; Client 2:, Terry Jones; Mr Wymer, Eric Idle)
“Mr. Wiggin: This is a 12-story block combining classical neo-Georgian features with the efficiency of modern techniques. The tenants arrive here and are carried along the corridor on a conveyor belt in extreme comfort, past murals depicting Mediterranean scenes, towards the rotating knives. The last twenty feet of the corridor are heavily soundproofed. The blood pours down these chutes and the mangled flesh slurps into these...
Client 1: Excuse me.
Mr. Wiggin: Yes?
Client 1: Did you say 'knives'?
Mr. Wiggin: Rotating knives, yes.
Client 2: Do I take it that you are proposing to slaughter our tenants?
Mr. Wiggin: ...Does that not fit in with your plans?
Client 1: Not really. We asked for a simple block of flats.
Mr. Wiggin: Oh. I hadn't fully divined your attitude towards the tenants. You see I mainly design slaughter houses”
From: The Architects Sketch, by John Cleese and Graham Chapman. From: Monty Python's Flying Circus, 20 October 1970. Transcribed By Dawn Whiteside. A bit of Le Cobusier history might be used here - during the design of the Philips pavillion (for the World Exhibition 1958 in Brussels) he used a slaughterhouse metaphore.
Displayed here are the parking decks of the luxury ‘Hoge Heren’ apartment towers in downtown Rotterdam, near the northern approach of the Erasmusbrug. The building is designed by Wiel Arets. Within it walls it offers a very broad range of services & facilities ;-)
At night the decks looks a bit eerie, sinister and surreal; a fine motive for the Monty Python Quoters group.
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"......slaughter our tenants?"
The Scene:
A large posh office. Two clients, well-dressed city gents, sit facing a large table at which stands Mr. Tid, the account manager of the architectural firm. (original cast: Mr Tid, Graham Chapman; Mr Wiggin, John Cleese; City Gent One, Michael Palin; Client 2:, Terry Jones; Mr Wymer, Eric Idle)
“Mr. Wiggin: This is a 12-story block combining classical neo-Georgian features with the efficiency of modern techniques. The tenants arrive here and are carried along the corridor on a conveyor belt in extreme comfort, past murals depicting Mediterranean scenes, towards the rotating knives. The last twenty feet of the corridor are heavily soundproofed. The blood pours down these chutes and the mangled flesh slurps into these...
Client 1: Excuse me.
Mr. Wiggin: Yes?
Client 1: Did you say 'knives'?
Mr. Wiggin: Rotating knives, yes.
Client 2: Do I take it that you are proposing to slaughter our tenants?
Mr. Wiggin: ...Does that not fit in with your plans?
Client 1: Not really. We asked for a simple block of flats.
Mr. Wiggin: Oh. I hadn't fully divined your attitude towards the tenants. You see I mainly design slaughter houses”
From: The Architects Sketch, by John Cleese and Graham Chapman. From: Monty Python's Flying Circus, 20 October 1970. Transcribed By Dawn Whiteside. A bit of Le Cobusier history might be used here - during the design of the Philips pavillion (for the World Exhibition 1958 in Brussels) he used a slaughterhouse metaphore.
Displayed here are the parking decks of the luxury ‘Hoge Heren’ apartment towers in downtown Rotterdam, near the northern approach of the Erasmusbrug. The building is designed by Wiel Arets. Within it walls it offers a very broad range of services & facilities ;-)
At night the decks looks a bit eerie, sinister and surreal; a fine motive for the Monty Python Quoters group.
Best viewed Large with a black background