On the subject of hotels; have they started building the one at the corner of Argyle St and Oswald St on the site of Intercity House yet?? - the planning was approved in November....
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-gla ... t-24904656
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Targer wrote:While everything in the article may be true this is not exactly a brilliant piece of architecture. Some of the previous designs proposed for this site were far,far better.
RapidAssistant wrote:Trouble is, its the "steel and glass box" paradigm that architects have been obsessed with in the last decade. Equally though you can argue that we'll look back at such buildings in 30 years time and say, "well that was the style of the noughties", in much the same way that Brutalist bare concrete was fashionable in the '60's and '70s, and that facades made of smoked glass and polished granite were fashionable in the 1980s and so on.....or indeed that carved red and blonde sandstone was fashionable at the turn of the 20th Century. It's all relative at the end of the day.
rabmania wrote:RapidAssistant wrote:Trouble is, its the "steel and glass box" paradigm that architects have been obsessed with in the last decade. Equally though you can argue that we'll look back at such buildings in 30 years time and say, "well that was the style of the noughties", in much the same way that Brutalist bare concrete was fashionable in the '60's and '70s, and that facades made of smoked glass and polished granite were fashionable in the 1980s and so on.....or indeed that carved red and blonde sandstone was fashionable at the turn of the 20th Century. It's all relative at the end of the day.
it's still shit.
RapidAssistant wrote:rabmania wrote:RapidAssistant wrote:Trouble is, its the "steel and glass box" paradigm that architects have been obsessed with in the last decade. Equally though you can argue that we'll look back at such buildings in 30 years time and say, "well that was the style of the noughties", in much the same way that Brutalist bare concrete was fashionable in the '60's and '70s, and that facades made of smoked glass and polished granite were fashionable in the 1980s and so on.....or indeed that carved red and blonde sandstone was fashionable at the turn of the 20th Century. It's all relative at the end of the day.
it's still shit.
It is. But at least the rooms are only £29 a night if you book well in advance. And you don't have to look at the building when you are in it......
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