I actively like it, but in a realistic world it shouldnāt even need listing. Whatās wrong with it?
It seems that itās only buildings that if it doesnāt meet your personal taste itās OK for it to call for it to be destroyed. Do you burn books that you donāt 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 āsee this dump that weāve totally failed to maintain, wouldnāt you like shiny new flats?ā 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 didnāt get relocated out of London altogether) would be poky single-aspect rabbit hutches.
I like it, visually, but Iām not qualified to say if it has any architectural merit.
Iād guess that refurbishment costs will play a BIG part in its future - if the shell is fundamentally sound, then refurb is possible - if notā¦
Listing is a very inconsistent business. In areas where thereās an abundance of great architecture some genuinely great buildings are destroyed every year (see Guyās 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 architectureā¦
Municipal Dreams Ā£1.50 (for the e-book) from the publisher.
TIL that itās 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 āSend to Kindleā free software which worked well.
That, or if you have the Kindle app you can just āshareā 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.
āThere will be a double-height atrium! It will be a dramatic light-filled space!ā
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 Iāve gaffer-taped together
Good excuse to buy a drone and attach the duster to it, Make Housework Fun Again