Architecture

I actively like it, but in a realistic world it shouldnā€™t even need listing. Whatā€™s wrong with it?

It seems that itā€™s only buildings that if it doesnā€™t meet your personal taste itā€™s OK for it to call for it to be destroyed. Do you burn books that you donā€™t enjoy?

Is it fit for purpose? If yes, keep it. If not, ask residents and if necessary, flatten the fucker! :sunglasses:

While I agree in principal, even that can be problematic.

In the case of Robin Hood Gardens

residents were asked ā€œsee this dump that weā€™ve totally failed to maintain, wouldnā€™t 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 didnā€™t get relocated out of London altogether) would be poky single-aspect rabbit hutches.

I like it, visually, but Iā€™m not qualified to say if it has any architectural merit.

Iā€™d guess that refurbishment costs will play a BIG part in its future - if the shell is fundamentally sound, then refurb is possible - if notā€¦ :skull:

Listing is a very inconsistent business. In areas where thereā€™s an abundance of great architecture some genuinely great buildings are destroyed every year (see Guyā€™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 architectureā€¦

Municipal Dreams Ā£1.50 (for the e-book) from the publisher.

TIL that itā€™s quite easy to get external content into the Kindle ecosystem.

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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 ā€˜Send to Kindleā€™ free software which worked well.

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That, or if you have the Kindle app you can just ā€œshareā€ to Kindle.

I assumed that it would be a completely walled garden because Amazon are twatz.

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Some good saves. Shared for the Frinton House:

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Things the smart alec German architect never thought about, number 472.

ā€œThere 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 Iā€™ve gaffer-taped together :man_facepalming:

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Good excuse to buy a drone and attach the duster to it, Make Housework Fun Again

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