Originally Posted by
petromax
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.
This was my point about about applying today's values to events in history, and tut tutting.
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Originally Posted by
petromax
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.
Very true...couldn't have put it better myself
Originally Posted by
petromax
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.
'The language of the bosses' is the Albert Dock. Yet now in the last twenty years it's been transformed into one of the most egalitarian spaces in the city. Your thoughts...?
Conversely, would you consider St George's Hall to be a true egalitarian building? It has all the right credentials, in passing more than a few nods of appreciation to the Parthenon, in embodying democratic city ideals. Yet is was anything but egalitarian in it's conception. It was an institution for the city fathers, as much as the town hall was. But the building's architecture transcends this, as John Soane's
Bank of England, in London, never could.
Originally Posted by
petromax
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.
Like the Eiffel tower?
Originally Posted by
petromax
oh dear; I own a Volvo...
Ha ha - sorry, can't help you there.
Originally Posted by
petromax
Dungeness? depends on which way you?re looking, but Ainsdale?s quite attractive which ever way you face!
Well, a bit further down the coast Gormley's men all seem to agree on the same view.
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