ARCHITECTURE
The saying is that you can tell allot about a person by their architecture, art and furniture. Looking around there are excellent examples of architecture from the past but not many good examples of modern architecture. This is the same with modern renovations.
There have been many poorly designed apartment blocks which have popped up. One of which was described as "Balamory flats" or as a friend had described " Balamory set in a communist block" thus bringing about a list of alternative Balamory characters ( you can imagine). It begs the question why can't we have well designed buildings? Surly there must be some creative architects in the UK.
I recently visited a friend at her new apartment and experienced a touch of architecture envy. The apartment was part of a converted church and was owned by the Housing Association. It had wonderful large rooms and most importantly a square window, a round window and an arched window. And because the floors were wooden ( not laminate) it was sound proofed aswell. A wonderful example of renovation architecture (upcycling). I left with my architecture envy back to my dull rectangle style boring windowed, mortgage paid home.
I noticed a large difference between how out of towners and locals dealt with their architecture over the years. Most of the homes which have excellent architecture design that have been put up for sale have been purchased by out of towners. These homes have been slightly run down but the OOT's have restored these homes back to their original beauty and even if something has been added it has been done with good taste that hasn't affected the original characteristics of the architecture.
Unfortunately some of the homes that did have excellent architecture design have had their individual beauty destroyed. There was a beautiful home which had wonderful gardens where the owner for some reason sold the land. A bunch of badly designed new boxy builds sprouted up offering no privacy for the original house. Some houses have been changed so much that they have lost their original beauty and look very cheapened. This has been the same for a couple of other wonderfully designed houses.
Good examples of architecture are sometimes hard to find so why do some people do that? It would be like taking the painting Mona Lisa then painting her hair that awful burgundy colour, adding false eyelashes and Daffy Duck lip implants and a track suit then hanging the painting back up. Standing back and viewing something that behind all of the modern vulgarism was once beautiful, characterful and made with precision, thought and love.
The saying is that you can tell allot about a person by their architecture, art and furniture. Looking around there are excellent examples of architecture from the past but not many good examples of modern architecture. This is the same with modern renovations.
There have been many poorly designed apartment blocks which have popped up. One of which was described as "Balamory flats" or as a friend had described " Balamory set in a communist block" thus bringing about a list of alternative Balamory characters ( you can imagine). It begs the question why can't we have well designed buildings? Surly there must be some creative architects in the UK.
I recently visited a friend at her new apartment and experienced a touch of architecture envy. The apartment was part of a converted church and was owned by the Housing Association. It had wonderful large rooms and most importantly a square window, a round window and an arched window. And because the floors were wooden ( not laminate) it was sound proofed aswell. A wonderful example of renovation architecture (upcycling). I left with my architecture envy back to my dull rectangle style boring windowed, mortgage paid home.
I noticed a large difference between how out of towners and locals dealt with their architecture over the years. Most of the homes which have excellent architecture design that have been put up for sale have been purchased by out of towners. These homes have been slightly run down but the OOT's have restored these homes back to their original beauty and even if something has been added it has been done with good taste that hasn't affected the original characteristics of the architecture.
Unfortunately some of the homes that did have excellent architecture design have had their individual beauty destroyed. There was a beautiful home which had wonderful gardens where the owner for some reason sold the land. A bunch of badly designed new boxy builds sprouted up offering no privacy for the original house. Some houses have been changed so much that they have lost their original beauty and look very cheapened. This has been the same for a couple of other wonderfully designed houses.
Good examples of architecture are sometimes hard to find so why do some people do that? It would be like taking the painting Mona Lisa then painting her hair that awful burgundy colour, adding false eyelashes and Daffy Duck lip implants and a track suit then hanging the painting back up. Standing back and viewing something that behind all of the modern vulgarism was once beautiful, characterful and made with precision, thought and love.
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