"Miles Bader" wrote in message ...

The problem was clueless and dogmatic '60s worship of modernity
("newer _must_ be better, there is no exception!") being used to justify
bad architecture and planning, and the mindless destruction of anything
not fitting the fad of the moment.

-Miles

Whereas the Victorians who built the Euston "Arch" were in no way clueless
and dogmatic in the mindless destruction they wrought on most of the capital's
existing vernacular buildings. Many of them going back 400 years or more in their
determination to replace them with pastiche Roman and Greek temple style
edifices and the like. In this case presumably in recognition of the importance which
railways clearly played in the Classical world. How very fitting - nothing
faddish about that then, at all.

While many of those they didn't raze to the ground they "improved" or rebuilt
in the original style, so at to confuse and bewilder those of subsequent
generations with any interest in the subject.


michael adams

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