Demolition Tories
Sunday, November 05, 2006

The list will bring together buildings the public would like to see knocked down, the Observer reports today.
But even though it would be tempting to demolish a number of eyesores, who's to say that today's Milton Keynes won't be tomorrow's Venice?
The Germans and the Japanese have a particular habit of doing this. When the Germans knocked down the old East German parliament building they bulldozed a part of their history.
Some buildings are, of course, beyond repair, but in most cases old buildings are sacrificed for the sake of modern blandness. Far better to re-purpose them so that they speak of the past and to the present. Or are we done with postmodernism already?
(left: top of the X-list?)
Labels: Germany, Tories, X-list
posted by Blamerbell @ 4:06 pm,
1 Comments:
- At 7:27 pm, said...
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I love Milton Keynes! While summing up a key point in Britain's history - the 1980s - it's actually a very well-designed town, and can surely only offend those opposed to roundabouts?