There I fully agree. I too detest the copying of the past. I like modern
architecture. The stuff we build now should look like it was built in the 21st
century and not a lame attempt to replicate the 19th.
Cheers,
Nathan
Nathan Wajsman
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YNWA
On Apr 7, 2013, at 9:29 AM, Wayne Harridge wrote:
> Fair enough, if something decent replaces it ! In my neighbourhood there
> have been some beautiful houses demolished to build: ugly blocks of flats or
> units, neo-Georgian, neo-Victorian, etc., etc., which look totally out of
> place in the streetscape. Basically I'm all for good architecture not the
> derivative crap that often seems to pass for "architecture" here.
>
> ...Wayne
>
>
>>
>> The photo is good. As for the other comment, I disagree. This is just an
>> ordinary old house, nothing special IMO. Just because something is old
> does
>> not mean that it is worth preserving. If people in the past had just
> wanted to
>> preserve THEIR past, we would not have many of our iconic buildings
>> today...what was on the site before the Empire State Building was built,
> for
>> example? Should it have been preserved instead?
>>
>> Cities (and human landscape in general) are dynamic. They change and
>> evolve. London's skyline has changed enormously the past 20 years. The
>> additions have mostly improved the city. And so it goes.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Nathan
>>
>> Nathan Wajsman
>> Alicante, Spain
>> http://www.frozenlight.eu
>> http://www.greatpix.eu
>> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
>> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/
>>
>> YNWA
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>> On Apr 6, 2013, at 4:34 PM, DZDub wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 3:01 AM, Chris Crawford
>>> <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> http://chriscrawfordphoto.com/chris-details.php?product=1619
>>>>
>>>> I shot this Thursday evening.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Two things:
>>>
>>> I'm glad you got a photo of the house. The sky is a little darker than
> I
>>> am used to in your photos (which is neither here not there), but I
>>> like the light on the building itself. It's beautiful.
>>>
>>> Secondly -- an extra-photographic comment -- it breaks my heart to see
>>> a grand old house like that fall out of repair and bite the dust.
>>> Nothing that comes back in its place will compare.
>>>
>>> Joel W.
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