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Old August 10th 06, 02:03 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Dave Arquati Dave Arquati is offline
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Greg Hennessy wrote:
On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 23:37:48 +0100, David Boothroyd
wrote:

In article ,
James Farrar wrote:
English Heritage are right and the 20th Century Society (whoever they
are, I've never even heard of them before) are wrong.

The C20th Society aims at preserving the best 20th Century buildings.


'best' does not include brutalist desctruction of towns and cities
throughout the UK, a school of architecture which appears to a favourite of
this self selecting group of unaccountable worthies.

No building under 100 years old should be listed period.


Funny, that's what they thought of Victorian buildings in the 50s & 60s,
and what the Victorians thought of buildings before them.


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