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A great part of British culture is just how much money and care goes into maintaining even small one family 400 year old farming houses. It also creates real es
by zpeti 4y ago
A great part of British culture is just how much money and care goes into maintaining even small one family 400 year old farming houses. It also creates real estate like no other.
Unfortunately the pressures on it are the same, the globalization and standardization pressures are quite large, and culturally too not just in prices. Somehow living in a white box with large windows is more trendy culturally than in a 400 year old house. I personally just don’t get it.
I also find what they’re doing in Budapest pretty interesting, they’re basically rebuilding the entire palace at great cost (and lots of construction corruption money). But I still think it’s an extremely good idea, and proves you can still build this stuff if you want to:
https://nemzetihauszmannprogram.hu/nhp-strategy-2021.pdf https://nemzetihauszmannprogram.hu/nhp-strategy-2021.pdf
- cinntaile 4y ago> I also find what they’re doing in Budapest pretty interesting, they’re basically rebuilding the entire palace at great cost (and lots of construction corruption money). Hungary is slowly moving away from democracy and this kind of project fits right in. That trend usually goes along with a tendency to try and awaken romantic, nationalistic feelings about the past. What better way to show Hungary's glory than restoring its palace?
- zpeti 4y ago[flagged]
- cinntaile 4y agoI don't get your aggressive tone. Politics and architecture are related to each other. It literally says, in the document you linked, that they want to achieve a 21st century renaissance of their national identity. It's nice that the buildings get restored, I'm just adding further context.
- dang 4y agoYou can't attack others like this on HN, regardless of how right you are or feel you are. We ban accounts that do, so please don't do this again. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful. Edit: unfortunately it turns out that you've been making a habit of posting flamewar comments and using HN primarily for political and ideological battle. We ban accounts that do that, regardless of what they're battling for. I'm not going to ban you right now because we haven't warned you before, and because I do also see some good comments in your feed. But please review the rules and stick to them from now on, so we won't have to. (Also, please don't use multiple accounts to do this.)
- andrepd 4y agoExactly. Anything to distract the public while you've got your hand in their pocket: be it exciting nationalistic pride, or blaming gypsies or the EU.
- zokier 4y ago> A great part of British culture is just how much money and care goes into maintaining even small one family 400 year old farming houses. It also creates real estate like no other. And then there is also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_country_houses_in_20th-century_Britain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_country_houses_...
- tim333 4y agoMy grans old 400+ year old cottage didn't require much money and care on the old bit. Stuff that's lasted 400 years is generally well built. The modern 1960s or so extension gave a few problems. The main structure of oak beams seems very solid - apparently in the event of a fire most other stuff can burn down and they are still left standing. It's a shame it's hard to build similar stuff now - simple wooden frame in harmony with the nature around - due to planning regs etc. Recent for sale thing on it https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/85546632#/media?channel=RES_BUY&id=media1 https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/85546632#/media?chann...