Occasionally plonking in buildings that have little or no reference to the surrounding buildings can still work. For some reason I can't quite work out, the rash of new pointy glass and steel buildings in Manchester seem to sit a lot happier next to the (often very elaborate) remaining Victorian buildings. Something most of the 60's buildings never quite managed. At a guess it's because most of the newer buildings still make an attempt to fit in with the street plans, and aren't just huge blocked-off areas, but even so.
However, my parents live on a, quite nice as these things go, new development of mainly detached brick houses, with would fit in nicely with the surrounding Victorian mainly detached red brick houses. Except that the new houses were done in that horrible yellowy-beige brick that every new development, wherever you go in the country, seemes to be done in. The contrast is pretty unplesant...
Interestingly, I was only thinking this morning, on the bus, about the way that the new steel and glass buildings in Manchester provide a pleasing contrast with the older and equally beautiful Victorian edifices.
I was also pondering some sort of course on architecture as my next set of evening classes.
Sad to say, I'm sat in one of the ugly 60's buildings.
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Date: 2004-04-28 07:58 am (UTC)However, my parents live on a, quite nice as these things go, new development of mainly detached brick houses, with would fit in nicely with the surrounding Victorian mainly detached red brick houses. Except that the new houses were done in that horrible yellowy-beige brick that every new development, wherever you go in the country, seemes to be done in. The contrast is pretty unplesant...
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Date: 2004-04-28 08:25 am (UTC)I was also pondering some sort of course on architecture as my next set of evening classes.
Sad to say, I'm sat in one of the ugly 60's buildings.
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Date: 2004-04-28 11:04 pm (UTC)