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The point about beautiful places and buildings is never that they MUST be classical or vernacular or Gothic or Art Deco but that patterns of harmonious ornament, coherent complexity, colour, detail, biomorphic (i.e. natural) forms etc are consistently more popular with more people
The White Dining Room (Ladies Luncheon Room), Ingram St Tearooms [Reconstructed 1996]. Charles Rennie Mackintosh. 1900.View quoted post on X
Those poor shops.
Oxford Street 1730 Friday 6th NovView quoted post on X
This is new.
We should create places which are not as cheap as possible but as good as we can afford. The utilitarian approach to city-making is failing us. Throw-away places ith throw-away meaning are bad for us and bad for the planet. The new streets in Clamart near Paris are ....
We should create places which are not as cheap as possible but as good as we can afford. The utilitarian approach to city-making is failing us. Throw-away places ith throw-away meaning are bad for us and bad for the planet. The new streets in Clamart near Paris are ....
Yup.
England has plenty of beauty.
We just tore down lots of it too (Southsea, London, Bournemouth, Blackburn).View quoted post on X
