Ventilation

Last year, at the event noticed at reference 1, I heard Shaun Fitzgerald talk about ventilating buildings and I learned about his company (reference 2), from whom architects and engineers can buy wisdom about such matters.

This morning, passing the building snapped left, a building I have probably walked past hundreds of times, I noticed that it had substantial ventilation panels at pavement level and that the strange towers on top, reminding me of oast houses in Kent, were something to do with ventilation too. Perhaps the builders had bought some of aforementioned wisdom.

The building presently being occupied by some branch of the National Health Service.

PS: in the version on my laptop, the snap of the building has a strong aura of white, possibly some artefact of my telephone. But it is just the same as the aura which Holman Hunt gave the down turn of the cliffs in his painting 'Our English Coasts', a copy of which hangs in our dining room, and the original of which can sometimes be seen in Tate Britain - last time I asked, it was in storage somewhere. Sadly, the aura is rather clearer in the dining room than it is on the laptop, but nevertheless, Holman Hunt was a very careful painter, admired by the French Impressionists for his ability to capture the effects of light, so perhaps the aura is not just an artefact of the telephone. See reference 3.

Reference 1: https://psmv3.blogspot.com/2018/06/hot-air.html.

Reference 2: https://www.breathingbuildings.com/.

Reference 3: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hunt-our-english-coasts-1852-strayed-sheep-n05665.