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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www.alwaystouchout.com - Transport projects in London

On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:03:40 +0100, Dave Arquati wrote:

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,

'they' being talentless poseurs such as the Smithsons, Goldfinger et al +
their public sector sponsors who destroyed towns and cities in the
interests of 'modernism'.

and what the Victorians thought of buildings before them.

The Victorians didnt have ridiculous restrictions on land use.

The Victorians would not have countenanced leaving the site of a former
power station in the middle of London standing empty for decades because
unaccountable worthies deem it do.


If the '20th century society' (sic) deem buildings to be so important, they
can pay the price for keeping them.




greg

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