>Good site! Was it because the pictures are ancillary to
>the text (editorial) that you didn't need to seek permission from
>the building owners to publish it on the web?
>
heck if I know!
>One of my favourite buildings here in Melbourne has been ruined.
>That was the old Southern Cross Hotel, which was bought by a
>developer, beiged in the manner of the time, and left boarded up
>when the money ran out. Originally it had been a riot of bright green
>zigzags and deep green marble. Put up around 1960, it was postmodern
>before the term had been invented, but since it isn't old the
>preservation mafia don't grok it in fullness and didn't save it
>as they have, e.g., a really appalling railway bridge which "tells
>a story."
>
Unfortunately, quite a few modernist masterpieces have been destroyed.
Modernism is sometimes treated like the stepchild of architecture by the
preservation societies. I mean, how many Victorian and Colonial buildings do
we really need?
Be seeing you.
Dirk Wright
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