On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:59:19 +0100, David Boothroyd
wrote:


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.

Au contraire, millionaire Marxists are inherently hypocritical.

He liked modern functional buildings and built one for himself.

Something he wouldn't be permitted to do today due to ridiculous planning
regulation.

He lived on the top floor of Balfron House for two months.

Wow, a whole 2 months before fleeing back to leafy Hampstead.

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

I am conversant with that. Fleming had a point.

[snip]


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?

If it's not fit for purpose, it's 'niceness' is irrelevant. LT is there to
provide public transport, nothing else, it's assets are not there for the
benefit of train spotters, architecture wonks or unaccountable quangos who
don't have to pick up the tab for specious contradictory regulation.

EH should have been severely slapped down on the Thames Tunnel issue.

There was absolutely no useful purpose served by their interference.

One suspects that if it was possible to consult Brunel on the matter, the
engineer would have been 1st to fire the shotcrete gun.

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.

Such 'advice' is only valid if the alleged experts guidance is objective.
In the case of the EH et al, it is not.



greg
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Es gibt nur einen, der mich kennt,
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