AFICIONADOS who missed Open House London last weekend may wish to visit West Ealing for its architectural delights.

Start at the station and walk north just a few metres to view the 'Brickenschiphaus' movement in the mixed office and flat development, countering the rather delightful Drayton Court Hotel.

South of the station, there are two good samples of 'plastique-cubism' inspired by The Ivy School (best covered in ivy) and, as always, too big and boring. Pass Waitrose and down to Felix Road to see 'crane penguin' - half installation, half school building craned in and designed to make penguins feel at home, looking like a piece of receding ice cap.

The advantage of these installations is that they may be placed anywhere overnight without proper planning process.

Nearby is an example of 'freedom densification', a movement that started about 2,000 years ago but has suddenly become popular and unchallenged in Ealing, where landlords and owners offer accommodation to the needy in stables, garages, sheds and bungalows in yards and back gardens.

Further east are yet more delights. 'Official densification' or the 'Lapinesque' school of packing people in hundreds of very small flats like rabbits in hutches, as in the planned Dickensian Yard development in the centre of Ealing.

And finally, 'bomb site chic' opposite and nearby: hoardings, empty buildings and piles of rubble similar to Bristol in the early 1950s.

Something is very wrong but what to do?

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