Gareth..it's sad but correct, those great buildings are gone forever, and will never be rebuilt. So lets preserve what great stuff we have left, and hope that we build great new modern stuff.
Georgian looks shite, when interpreted with modern materials, it just fails miserably. It should only be done in an existing Georgian area to fill a gap, and should use the same materials externally, and conform to the proportions of the existing buildings. Internally it should be modern though, considering the modern interiors and designs that exist in recent renovations.
Couldn't agree more, Jux. Have you seen some of the faux Georgian shite in Parly? Blabs was talking about even more domesticated 'Georgian' rubbish in Russsell Street in another thread. IMO 'Georgian' rebuilds should only be done in areas that previously laid claim to such architecture and then only as infills or as replacement for post-war mistakes. The same applies to interpretations on 'Victorian' architecture. There are two recent examples of attempts at a Victorian town house turned into luxury flats along Ullett Road. Failures because the architect was determined to express his/her own 'individuality' and this has resulted in the worst form of pastiche with a 'modern' touch. On the other hand in Hargreaves Road off Lark Lane, they have completley rebuilt an Edwardian townhouse without any modern twists. If you hadn't seen it with the roof caved in, almost falling down, you might assume that it was the original building nicely renovated rather than rebuilt!
I know the buildings you mean on Hargreaves road, the proper way to do it, where as the badly faked villa on Ullet Rd, and the lego impersonation of a victorian villa built down the road on Livingston Road uke:
All that effort put into it, but just missing that final bit of effort and thought. :bash:
If someone ever invents a time machine, i would love to go back to before 1939 to just visit Liverpool and see and experience all the sights and things that have gone forever.
This is that small section of warehouse, the archway standing outside the main entrance to the Albert Dock
Another for ressurection could be Waterloo warehouse, one of the two warehouses still exists, but the other would have been better than those low level Barrat huts.
So this is an indicator of the cost to rebuild the Customs House, not cheap
Construction of the Dresden Synagogue
When on November 9th, 1938, as in many cities of Germany, the Synagogue was set ablaze - not by a mythical concept of evil but by citizens of Dresden - it destroyed more than just a building created by the architectural genius of Gottfried Semper.
i've often thought about this. i'm from birmingham (the capital of shitty architectural errors!) we always hear about 'correcting past mistakes' but would it be too much of a backtrack to rebuild things that were knocked down?
Once they are gone, might as well move forward, unless the building was really stunning, in which case it would probably cost too much, unless we got the Eastern European cheap labour to build it.
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