Cynicism taken to a new level.
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The Creeping Plague Of Ghastly Facadism | Spitalfields Life[^] Why am i thinking Agile here?
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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The Creeping Plague Of Ghastly Facadism | Spitalfields Life[^] Why am i thinking Agile here?
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Model lock - in London we have a belief that the past (empire, toffs, Sherlock Holmes) is inherently more valuable than the future. However the future cannot be avoided so we have to fudge it in like this. The area of London (Bermondsley) where my grandfather was brought up and worked all his life is a good case in point. The orphanage he lived in is now a block of trendy apartments and the dock he worked is a yachting marina. This change was inevitable but we have a strange paradox in that we move the people out (who are the authors of history) and leave the building facades behind (that are the artefacts of history).
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Model lock - in London we have a belief that the past (empire, toffs, Sherlock Holmes) is inherently more valuable than the future. However the future cannot be avoided so we have to fudge it in like this. The area of London (Bermondsley) where my grandfather was brought up and worked all his life is a good case in point. The orphanage he lived in is now a block of trendy apartments and the dock he worked is a yachting marina. This change was inevitable but we have a strange paradox in that we move the people out (who are the authors of history) and leave the building facades behind (that are the artefacts of history).
In Italy too, and I think in most of Europe. Probably because we HAVE a history, while the colonies are pretty new historically speaking.
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Model lock - in London we have a belief that the past (empire, toffs, Sherlock Holmes) is inherently more valuable than the future. However the future cannot be avoided so we have to fudge it in like this. The area of London (Bermondsley) where my grandfather was brought up and worked all his life is a good case in point. The orphanage he lived in is now a block of trendy apartments and the dock he worked is a yachting marina. This change was inevitable but we have a strange paradox in that we move the people out (who are the authors of history) and leave the building facades behind (that are the artefacts of history).
One, who afraid of the future, can definitely avoid it... And the past was ... in the past - "one who comes from afar, can say whatever wants"...
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Model lock - in London we have a belief that the past (empire, toffs, Sherlock Holmes) is inherently more valuable than the future. However the future cannot be avoided so we have to fudge it in like this. The area of London (Bermondsley) where my grandfather was brought up and worked all his life is a good case in point. The orphanage he lived in is now a block of trendy apartments and the dock he worked is a yachting marina. This change was inevitable but we have a strange paradox in that we move the people out (who are the authors of history) and leave the building facades behind (that are the artefacts of history).
Duncan Edwards Jones wrote:
so we have to fudge it in like this
No, you don't have to! Retaining a facade can be done well and there are many fine examples up and down the country. Planning committees should be much more insistent on the integration of facades into the new building, not allow them to be bolt-ons in this ghastly manner.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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The Creeping Plague Of Ghastly Facadism | Spitalfields Life[^] Why am i thinking Agile here?
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
I would only reply, as did Bill (Gates) when challenged about appropriating product ideas, "you shouldn't show them to me." Those London facades are a spot-on metaphor for Microsoft Windows, grin. Using Microsoft products is like having a well-loved dog that unfortunately keeps biting you when you least expect it.
