In message , David
Boothroyd writes
In article ,
Greg Hennessy wrote:
On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:35:47 +0100, Ian Jelf
wrote:
In message , Greg Hennessy
writes
No building under 100 years old should be listed period.

I know that tastes differ but that's just a *bit* sweeping, don't you
think? :-)
2 Willow Road?

Especially 2 Willow Road. Add everything else the hypocrite inflicted on
society at large to the list also.

Goldfinger was many things but hypocritical is not among them. He liked
modern functional buildings and built one for himself. He lived on the
top floor of Balfron House for two months.
Interesting. I thought it was Trellick tower. You live and learn!
Thanks, David.

(OTOH look up the story
about him and Ian Fleming, and also the one about "Goldfinger here!")

Bankside Power Station?

A.n other ridiculous waste of extremely scarce resource.

It and Battersea should never ever have been built in the middle of London
in the 1st place.

One has to ask why more self serving worthies such as Serota et al at the
Tate deserved a handout valued at 10's if not hundreds of millions.

Liverpool Cathedral (either one, come to think of it)?

This manages to mention three buildings (Bankside, Battersea and
Liverpool Anglican Cathedral) designed by my favourite architect of
all time, Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. Scott had a genius for making
functional buildings into popular landmarks.
Like the K2/K6 telephone kiosks, then? :-)

In Battersea Power
station it is tragic that successive failures have left the building
in such a condition that the original chimneys have to be replaced
with facsimiles. Bankside has unfortunately been converted in a
quite unsympathetic way.
It wasn't my intention to single of GGS. But I admire his stuff a
great deal, so I suppose I did so subconsciously.

55 Broadway?

Site has got to be worth a large sum of money on the open market, freeing
up resources which could be much better utilised elsewhere in the tube
system.

But why would you want to demolish such a nice distinguished building?
Probably because he doesn't think it's nice and/or distinguished.
That's the thing with taste, isn't it?

if self selecting worthies want to impose the costs of their architectural
tastes on society as a whole.

They have two choices.

They can buy said properties and do with them what they will.

Or they can consult the local electorate directly through a proposition
system and abide by that decision.

Speaking as a representative of the local electorate, I'd prefer that
we have guidance from experts on what is a proper historic building
design and what is undistinguished.
Glad you think so!
--
Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

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