...and they generally all have the tacit if not the active support of those supposed to be keeping them in check.It's more expensive to refurbish an old building to modern standards than to flatten and build a new box, insurers and everyone else get jittery if a building is more than 25 years old, it's apparently 'in everyone's best interests' to clear and redevelop as the preferred option.
Except for the small point that by doing so you are destroying the towns and communities in which people grew up, the iconic buildings that make a place home rather than just a crappy overspill estate somewhere, and filling up the landscape with poorly-build, unsightly monocultures of so-called architecture that will be falling down themselves it ten years time, let alone lasting another century as the older buildings had.
Grr. *bugbears*
(Except for the small point that by doing so you are destroying the towns and communities in which people grew up, the iconic buildings that make a place home rather than just a crappy overspill estate somewhere, and filling up the landscape with poorly-build, unsightly monocultures of so-called architecture that will be falling down themselves it ten years time, let alone lasting another century as the older buildings had.
Grr. *bugbears*
barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!,
Wed 14 Jan 2009, 14:45,
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yuplook at all the money that went into this: www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2006/jun/25/architecture
when it could have gone into restoring this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barr_Hall
in fact, they're different councils, but the principle is the same
(when it could have gone into restoring this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barr_Hall
in fact, they're different councils, but the principle is the same
Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus,
Wed 14 Jan 2009, 14:53,
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are there pictures???i cant see them if they're there
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Sir T. Skellington,
Wed 14 Jan 2009, 14:55,
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Great Barr Hall, venue for meetings of the Lunar Society: www.lambarman.co.uk/assets/images/_50.jpg
The Public: www.bdonline.co.uk/Pictures/468xAny/y/o/k/Public_ready.jpg
(The Public: www.bdonline.co.uk/Pictures/468xAny/y/o/k/Public_ready.jpg
Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus,
Wed 14 Jan 2009, 14:57,
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