I actively like it, but in a realistic world it shouldn’t even need listing. What’s wrong with it?
It seems that it’s only buildings that if it doesn’t meet your personal taste it’s OK for it to call for it to be destroyed. Do you burn books that you don’t enjoy?
Is it fit for purpose? If yes, keep it. If not, ask residents and if necessary, flatten the fucker!
While I agree in principal, even that can be problematic.
In the case of Robin Hood Gardens
residents were asked “see this dump that we’ve totally failed to maintain, wouldn’t you like shiny new flats?” Of course they said yes.
Nobody mentioned that while the old flats were generously proportioned to Parker Morris, the new flats (if they actually got one and didn’t get relocated out of London altogether) would be poky single-aspect rabbit hutches.
I like it, visually, but I’m not qualified to say if it has any architectural merit.
I’d guess that refurbishment costs will play a BIG part in its future - if the shell is fundamentally sound, then refurb is possible - if not…
Listing is a very inconsistent business. In areas where there’s an abundance of great architecture some genuinely great buildings are destroyed every year (see Guy’s post above) - whereas in cultural wildernesses, a very mundane C18th/19th farmhouse with many much later alterations and substantial loss of original features (this place) is listed!
There does seem to remain a very strong bias against C20th and later architecture…
Municipal Dreams £1.50 (for the e-book) from the publisher.
TIL that it’s quite easy to get external content into the Kindle ecosystem.
Found that recently, read a book and the author offered a free novella if you signed up to his newsletter. Downloaded the book then used the Amazon ‘Send to Kindle’ free software which worked well.
That, or if you have the Kindle app you can just “share” to Kindle.
I assumed that it would be a completely walled garden because Amazon are twatz.
Some good saves. Shared for the Frinton House:
Things the smart alec German architect never thought about, number 472.
“There will be a double-height atrium! It will be a dramatic light-filled space!”
Yeah, and the spiders like to build their webs in the furthest, most inaccessible corner of it. So I have to have a duster on the end of two extensible poles that I’ve gaffer-taped together
Good excuse to buy a drone and attach the duster to it, Make Housework Fun Again
Gain access to a weird concrete blip of the mid C20.
These things are like an alternate non electronic reality. Anish Kapoor made some sound mirror sculptures.
This guy
being tipped as the new Speer.