Buildings and architecture - good and bad

[MontyVeda]

Now to Toronto, and I don't like this updating at all, especially in comparison with how the Art Deco one in Exeter was done. I think it's the overhang which spoils it... well, amongst other things. The only connection with the building below it is the shape.

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That's the whole point. New additions should never blend in with the old.

 

[briantrumpet]

That's the whole point. New additions should never blend in with the old.

Maybe not, but they shouldn't overpower them, and can show a bit more relationship to them than just the shape. I think I'd find it more pleasing if it didn't try to grab the attention with the overhang... just a little bit of modesty would have gone a long way: I think my reaction would have been totally different had it been slightly recessed.

 

[MontyVeda]

Maybe not, but they shouldn't overpower them, and can show a bit more relationship to them than just the shape. I think I'd find it more pleasing if it didn't try to grab the attention with the overhang... just a little bit of modesty would have gone a long way: I think my reaction would have been totally different had it been slightly recessed.

To me the big glass structure kind of disappears whilst being totally obvious at the same time. The Exeter one you mentioned just has a big box plonked on top which looks like it was always there when it wasn't, which to me is deceiving.

 

[briantrumpet]

To me the big glass structure kind of disappears whilst being totally obvious at the same time. The Exeter one you mentioned just has a big box plonked on top which looks like it was always there when it wasn't, which to me is deceiving.

I guess we have different tastes. And that's good. I'd rather dislike a building than just go 'meh' at blandness.

 

[briantrumpet]

I had a while in a fairly-recently cleaned CdG TGV station with some good light. It's a building I really like.

 

[geocycle]

I cycled past this today in Settle. If you look carefully you will see a modern building poking out of the top. Apparently it featured in George Clark’s Restoration series. Great use of industrial architecture.