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> It's a city, not a museum. Cities like Budapest, Prague, Vienna have quite strict regulations when it comes to buildings. Eg. Budapest still doesn't have any

by pmlnr 7y ago

> It's a city, not a museum. Cities like Budapest, Prague, Vienna have quite strict regulations when it comes to buildings. Eg. Budapest still doesn't have anything taller, than 30 tiers. Respecting and maintaining a certain look doesn't mean it'll become a museum, rather that it has a personality and everyone agreed to keep that personality. London, at this point, is the other end of this spectrum: no personality, no regulations on look/height/etc based on values. (Sometimes I wonder about regulations at all, knowing the case of the melted Jaguar with the Walkie Talkie: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-23930675 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-23930675 )

foldr 7y ago
It's quite ridiculous to suggest that London doesn't have any regulations on buildings, or that the city doesn't have any personality. Do you know why the cheese grater is the shape that it is?
- pmlnr 7y ago
  > Do you know why the cheese grater is the shape that it is? I do not. Personality is an interesting topic. I love Hackney or the area around Wapping; there's certainly a personality around Muswell Hill and Highgate; the Barbican is brilliant and unique, etc. But the Liverpool Street Station area? Nah. Not that for example Budapest has a face everywhere: it has a decent amount of socialist blocks that you can find anywhere in the former Eastern Block, and a lot of generic housing areas, but the inner circle is quite heavily regulated, especially on the height of buildings. As for regulations: regulations on what looks are allowed. The question mark for the walkie-talkie was because it's a collector mirror, and whoever designed it should have realized that it's dangerous.
  - foldr 7y ago
    Lots of rules: https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/the-122-leadenhall-cheesegrater-and-protecting-londons-skyline-landscape-view-of-st-pauls-cathedral-from-fleet-street/ https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/the-122-leadenhall-cheesegr...

by pmlnr 7y ago

foldr 7y ago

It's quite ridiculous to suggest that London doesn't have any regulations on buildings, or that the city doesn't have any personality. Do you know why the cheese grater is the shape that it is?

pmlnr 7y ago
> Do you know why the cheese grater is the shape that it is? I do not. Personality is an interesting topic. I love Hackney or the area around Wapping; there's certainly a personality around Muswell Hill and Highgate; the Barbican is brilliant and unique, etc. But the Liverpool Street Station area? Nah. Not that for example Budapest has a face everywhere: it has a decent amount of socialist blocks that you can find anywhere in the former Eastern Block, and a lot of generic housing areas, but the inner circle is quite heavily regulated, especially on the height of buildings. As for regulations: regulations on what looks are allowed. The question mark for the walkie-talkie was because it's a collector mirror, and whoever designed it should have realized that it's dangerous.
- foldr 7y ago
  Lots of rules: https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/the-122-leadenhall-cheesegrater-and-protecting-londons-skyline-landscape-view-of-st-pauls-cathedral-from-fleet-street/ https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/the-122-leadenhall-cheesegr...