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General: appearance doesn't matter

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    Biff,

    RE Bike sheds,

    Knew I could rely on you!

    J
    • CommentAuthorbiffvernon
    • CommentTimeMar 25th 2008
     
    What, to correct your spelling of 'knew'? No problem.
    :)
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    Edited... ...but not before Ruskin turns in his grave at poor state of spelling in modern architects.

    J
    • CommentAuthorcaliwag
    • CommentTimeMar 30th 2008
     
    Interesting point FT about "giving us something normal"...suspect that has not changed, neither with punters, volume builders nor mortgage providers.
    Doesn't bode well for the good people of Gateshead, and the Ikea house!!

    Anyone got a link to Wayne Hemmingway's grand designs?
    • CommentAuthorPPMD
    • CommentTimeApr 3rd 2008
     
    OF COURSE APPEARENCE MATTERS!!!
    Contamination is not a problem that comes just from CO2 particles, visual pollution is devastating too, it can bring you down really fast if you constantly face an ugly building, a horrid dense grey street or a forest of dead dry trees.

    i'll make my best to bring up proyects that meet not only the 'green parameters' but also the aesthetic ones. We're not only lungs, guys!:bigsmile:

    greets,
    :wink:


    PP
    • CommentAuthornightkin
    • CommentTimeApr 24th 2008
     
    aesthetics are rather subjective, but not to consider the aesthetics of a design is taking a very non-gestaltist point of view. the aesthetics of a building are just as much a part of it's function as any other facet, so should not be ignored. too many ugly eyesores have been created in the past because the architect just wanted to be functional - and these have generally turned out to be mistakes. buildings are used by people, not purely by machines, and the building must fulfill spiritual / psychological needs as much as physical.
    • CommentAuthorcaliwag
    • CommentTimeApr 24th 2008
     
    interesting to see this one resurfacing.

    I have just picked up a copy of The New Small House by RFS Yorke and P Whiting published by the Architectural Press (1953). A cracking little book which unusually shows floor plans which is just as well because the entire book is filled with, what we would judge as, mere council houses.

    They are entirely of their time...post war Britain...everything fresh and light.

    It is easy to forget that...the gloom that the enveloped the trad (and now sought after) terrace. I recall, in Hull (late in modern housing policy), famillies petitioning to get out of their terraces in 1982...no matter that they were to live miles out of town, with no services etc, they wanted out.

    That was the dream sold to the public from the post war era...and still in Hull in 1982.

    I dont blame them...there were some houses then that only had running water in the yard...1982!!!

    Anyway...aesthetics doesn't matter unless you can pay for it. Generally speaking those that can pay for it have no idea either... I come back to my hobby horse...actually people in the UK want a bit of "Country Life" style...be it in a semi or a cottage or a flat, people are craving for style (might be IKEA mind)...and dont giveme the Grand Designs stuff...people see that as mere entertainment: others stuggling "we wouldn't be so stupid, would we?"
    • CommentAuthorwalrus
    • CommentTimeMay 8th 2008
     
    Of course a building should be "fit for purpose", part of that purpose surely is to fit in with the local environment and be pleasing to the eye! Your house may be super eco friendly but if you throw up just by looking at it and all the neighbours laugh themselves stupid at it, is it "fit for purpose?" hardly............


    No matter what the "experts" say

    "Ex" is a has been, "spert" is a drip under pressure :smile::smile::smile:
    • CommentAuthorcaliwag
    • CommentTimeMay 8th 2008
     
    There is, of course, no measure or agreement of "what is pleasing to the eye".
    One man's minimalism is another man's boredom.

    It is a matter of travel and education...the more you experience, the more scope there is for change and something different (and acceptance of same)...thank God! We all have the opportunity to choose chocolate box or concrete box, and everything in between (planners willing) but there is no right or wrong.

    Anyway the uneducated nimby masses will decide for you.

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