Originally Posted by
dazza
...erasing earlier memories...
...applying the morals and ethics of today anachronistically to the past is unhelpful....
More recently - I hated the politics behind the dome...
...in Volvo's - doesn't mean I'm going to run out and buy one though...
You like Dungerness then?
Can?t feel any regrets for the slave trade - another time another ethic, and I don?t think people know or think much of the horrors of the past when they say how wonderful ?old? buildings are.
Liverpool?s bloody history had been well-buried until relatively recently. Manchester?s oppressive working conditions are quietly glossed over and London?s ?despotism of Empire? has been glorified and sanitised. The bad stuff has become somewhat invisible at best and irrelevant at worst.
It?s the appreciation of the architecture of power (ie., building in the language of the ?bosses?) particularly in an egalitarian culture like Liverpool, that I find most surprising.
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Politics of the dome??? Richard Rogers? contribution to Architecture of the People?? A temporary ?tent? of the masses. It was never meant to last - like Ally Pally and Crystal Palace. It simply outstayed it?s meaning.
oh dear; I own a Volvo...
Dungeness? depends on which way you?re looking, but Ainsdale?s quite attractive which ever way you face!
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