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Awful idea and quite reactionary. There’s no reason to design buildings that look like old buildings unless you’re doing a renovation. We have different materia
by nemo44x 4y ago
Awful idea and quite reactionary. There’s no reason to design buildings that look like old buildings unless you’re doing a renovation. We have different materials that allow us to build to heights we couldn’t before. We lack the craftsmen to build authentic facades from that era so we’d end up with ignorant pastiches of old buildings.
Tastefully intermingling the old with the new is difficult to do at times but the results are magnificent. See The Louvre for example.
- TheOtherHobbes 4y agoTastefully intermingling the old with the new is exactly what isn't happening. I don't think a return to the classics is the answer, but some cities manage to handle modernism without clashing with tradition, and London very much isn't one of them. Worse, these buildings are going to have a very limited working life compared to the older architecture around them. A century is optimistic.
- nemo44x 4y agoThe Walkie Talkie isn’t great and it sort of lacks dignity for London’s skyline. But I think other recent structures such as city hall, the shard, and the gherkin all work.