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[edit] What's related. What is and what isn't BB.

It's a pity there isn't yet an article on rundbogenstil (see http://www.nyc-architecture.com/STYLES/STY-Rundbogenstil.htm) and there's precious little on Romanesque Revival architecture.

Clarks Wood Company warehouse, St Vincent's Works, the Wool Hall, and Arnolfini are all related to BB in that they are round-arched, but I've never thought of them as Byzantine. Are there any references for calling them BB? William Avery 20:03, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

For Arnolfini see Bush House for how it started many of the features later known as BB. The city council label it BB at The Wool Hall - but feel free to remove or amend as you see fit - perhaps we should add the general hospital?— Rod ^talk 20:43, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

I see now. That 'Wool Hall' on the council website is a building in King Street, about 300m from the one in St Thomas Street. See http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/search/details.aspx?id=379877 which calls it a former cork warehouse in Venetian Gothic Revival style. There's no reason of course why buildings should lend themselves to easy classification! William Avery 07:04, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Ruskinian Gothic"

In books on architecture this polychrome style, which is derived in part from examples in Venice, and thus is "Byzantine" at secondhand, is generally called "Ruskinian Gothic." --Wetman 08:43, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

The label is funny but appropriate. It's questionable whether this manner had any chance of spreading across Victorian Britain without Ruskin. --Ghirla^-трёп- 19:11, 24 May 2007 (UTC)