Meades, Franco Building, Mass Tourism, 2019

Jonathan Meades looks at the architectural legacy of one of Europe’s most notorious dictators - Francisco Franco. He reveals that Franco’s lasting contribution to Spanish architecture wasn’t in the dull official buildings he commissioned, but in the tower blocks of tourist towns like Benidorm.
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[@carolineheywood8465]

'Posthumously generous with his phosphates'

[@petrichor649]

It's quite a line.

[@darkcat5649]

St.James homie he’s everywhere praise god

[@frontom]

Thanks for this! Really appreciate all the work you're doing with this channel. It's really excellent stuff.

[@maudeeb]

My pleasure

[@jackjude]

I prefer to see Meades marching about the locations and interacting with them in strange ways. I love the door slamming in Prora and how he turns off the Nazi speech in Jerry Building

[@davefowler3510]

Factual error at 42:55 regarding the neo-Herrerian Universidad Laboral de Gijón/former orphanage/Spain's biggest building. It is in Asturias, not in "Franco's native Galicia".

[@maudeeb]

Seems so. Are the two region's 'architectural vernacular' similar?

[@davefowler3510]

​@@maudeeb To be fair to Meades, he may have been referencing the historical 10th Century Kingdom of Asturias, which included Galicia and parts of the Basque Country. But to answer your question, I would suggest Asturias has few major architectural differences with Galicia, but more so with the Basque region.

[@brentryan2666]

@@maudeeb no, they are not. Galicia (where I am resident) has a vernacular of whitish granite, whereas Asturias has a vernacular that more resembles the rest of Spain, with a yellowish limestone and stucco. Compare the old cities of Santiago de Compostela and Gijon to see the difference.

[@johnknight4449]

A big thank you for posting this video, as BBC iPlayer wrongly informed me that it had months of viewing left, but since re-downloading again to my new iPhone I found it to be unavailable.

[@TheLazyGeneTV]

I look forward to his comments on the "idiocy" of other faiths

[@keeperofthecheese]

Love meades

[@algie-t2w]

Mr Meades makes the common mistake of confusing belief in the life of the spirit and the earthly controlling power of organised religion. Which as he points out is manipulative drivel for the gullible.

[@bendelrey2188]

Grate stuff, but not till 1982 el Caudillo died in 1975 thank fuck.

[@conor3000]

You wee legend. I missed this on iplayer

[@gerarvillen8787]

Gracias por bajarlo .

[@maudeeb]

No problemo

[@robpallot5058]

In his views - Meades seems almost dogmatic...

[@realityisanalog]

Plain speaking. stripped of jargon (see "Meades on Jargon" ) and it's cousin the comfortable emotive often elicits such a response -ergo: What went ye out into the internet / BBC 4 to see? A reed shaken with the wind?✌🏼✅👍

[@davidgormley7990]

Meades is anything but dogmatic.

[@realityisanalog]

G-burn: thanks for providing this! ⭐⭐⭐⭐ ⭐✅