Entrance. A humble building, probably something similar in a street near you. Could have chosen a big fancy fuck period building but, as ever, thought bollocks to that. Often there is a temptation to get obsessed with beauty but sometimes a simple building does the right things.

Take a close look at the entrance.
It’s clear where it is.
It engages/activates the street.
It’s spacious, open & double height
Simple canopy, big enough to keep you dry (if confused after a couple of shandy’s).
It’s well lit, both floors & back
It feels safe to enter - 4 flats.

When it comes to entrances why do many buildings fuck this up. Many are out of proportion with the scale of the building, like a shitty little rats tunnel into an even shittier narrow corridor.

Some get pissed off to the back of some dank crevice of a parking underbelly. Because I’m a cock and parking ‘my big boy car’ in front of it is much more important than your access or safety. Often also blocking disabled access.

There’s a raising in priority of the vehicle entrance over the people entrance signifying which has been considered the higher status in this building design.

Some are so illegible that don’t appear to have an entrance at all or arrival by car is seen as the way to orientate and design a building, ignoring the street.

Others are so poorly designed, positioned and unsafe that the local authority had to come along and fit shit fencing around them due to easily foreseeable fear of crime and actual antisocial behaviour.

Occasionally they look like piss poor supermarket service doors, are inaccessible or just bollocks and not even real!

People do terrible things to lovely entrances because they think it looks cool, invisible, hip and other cack stuff like that.

And we also appear to think it’s ok to be absolute twats and segregate the vital but less well off, such as nurses, bus drivers, shop workers, etc. into poor doors well away from the more affluent?!

Entrances can be wonderful things like the ones below from @PpeterPeter. Walking into a legible, well lit, spacious, well designed entrance can make all the difference. Think about the last time you walked into a building and how did that entrance make you feel.

This is about looking beyond the initial appearance of a building, asking does it do the right things? Not does it look pretty or has it got fucking sash windows! Some simple buildings do great things, really well, they affect how people use them, while adding well to the street.