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viceroy wrote:Another thing I have qualms about is façade retention. Surely if a building is worth preserving it is worth preserving in its entirety, not just its outer shell? Can you imagine something like that happening to the Glasgow School of Art, with its interior as important as its exterior? There is something vaguely dishonest about the whole process.
viceroy wrote:There have been a lot of vitriolic comments about the new buildings which have been springing up all over Glasgow in recent years. Of course some of it is rubbish but hasn’t this always been the case? Much of the tenement property built in Glasgow in the latter part of the 19th century was of poor quality, constructed at maximum speed and on inadequate foundations. Many buildings which we now regard as being of architectural significance were looked on with the utmost distaste when they were new. That is also a problem I think – the rawness of new buildings, no matter how good they may be, puts them at an automatic disadvantage. Who knows, maybe a few buildings slagged off in these forums will in a hundred years time become the subject of passionate attempts to preserve them when some 22nd Century developer wishes to raze them to the ground.
viceroy wrote: what makes Glasgow great are its people, not its buildings, a fact which occasionally I feel does get lost sight of.
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