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The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright, 1869 - 1959
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright, 1869 - 1959
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Date: 2006-10-20 03:59 pm (UTC)There are a few in Centretown that put me in mind of Anton Furst's visions of Gotham of late...
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Date: 2006-10-20 06:03 pm (UTC)I suspect Frank Lloyd Wright might have been thinking of one or two!
When I think of the buildings in Ottawa that I like and don't like... well, it would take a little more than ivy to fix the mistakes. Anton Furst would be a distinct improvement.
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Date: 2006-10-20 08:08 pm (UTC)Whoops.
Date: 2006-10-20 08:09 pm (UTC)Re: Whoops.
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Date: 2006-10-20 11:22 pm (UTC)Setting aside the contention of any observant tourist that true gothic architecture is recognizable only by the scaffolding around it while renovations take place.
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Date: 2006-10-20 11:26 pm (UTC)Similarly, in St As, the original mediæval quad of St Salvator's College was demolished to build a mock-Jacobean one in late 19C.
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Date: 2006-10-20 11:45 pm (UTC)And when they tear down the beautiful old buildings, they replace them with glass and steel, not Neo-Gothic. What is wrong with people?
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Date: 2006-10-20 11:56 pm (UTC)At least we still have this in Glasgow (which I've not yet seen, as one has to go through a dodgy area to get to it): Glasgow Cathedral (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/sstewart1873/Index/webpages/Picture%20Tour.htm), which is mostly late 13C onward, on an earlier site.
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Date: 2006-10-21 12:47 am (UTC)Amazing how many properties the Templars and Hospitallers owned.
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Date: 2006-10-21 02:19 pm (UTC)Bad enough you pun in person, now you're doing it on LJ... bad