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Aneirin -> RE: The prince at it again. (5/12/2009 4:09:49 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Darcyandthedark
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ORIGINAL: Aneirin
I was just thinking, isn't that what most Americans come to Britain to see, the antwacky, ye olde worlde, chocolate box bollocks ?
I happen to like the chocolate box olde worlde creations that you think is bollocks. I find such crude insults immature. I also happen to enjoy modern architecture.
Of course Charles is an important person when it comes to this. And so he should be.
Do you even know what he proposed in the beginning with all this when it was in the primary stages and what this is all about?
Your post is nothing more than like a tabloid scaremongering at it's worse.
the.dark.
The chocolate box, ye olde worlde achitecture had it's place, it has influenced many modern buildings, look at housing estates, they all look the same, yeah the houses are different, the designers have seen fit to vary the styles a bit, (from what it was like in the past, rows of the same style houses), but the details are largely the same. Now, Milton Keynes for example, many dislike the place, but that town has been daring enough to try new ideas, they have made an attempt at modernist design, and design to incorporate many new enviromentally sustaining ideas. Surely, this is a way to go, more efficient dwellings that do not impact greatly on the enviroment. Why are we still sticking houses in the ground, where they suck up moisture and cold, what is wrong with stilted houses, dwellings raised off the ground, what is wrong with modern composite materials, or wood, why cold brick all the time and why a design that was in vogue in the eighteenth century and older. Surely we have moved on a bit by now, the peak of building design has not passed yet, though by the look of it, to a foreign visitor, it might seem so, either that, or some would wish for Time in Britain to stand still.
My interest is for the skilled and creative to be allowed to design and create without hindrance from a person who could be said to be living in an ivory tower. As to whether a design goes ahead, that is for the customer to decide, the planners and the people who have to live/work in it and the people who live by/with it, not someone who owns and lives in some of the choicest historical dwellings in the country, dwellings that go back in reality to the times we seem to mimick in many modern buildings.
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