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From: "Architexturez." <admin-in@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 08:04:03 +0530
Architecture that continues to fail the postcard test
SARAH JONES
WHEN Sir John Betjeman urged friendly bombs to fall on Slough, one can't
help feeling he was being a little bit vindictive. After all, why just
pick on Slough? Britain is cursed with equally bleak towns, and even
bleaker suburbs, from the 'grey box' blight that peppers the stunning
Highlands to city corners that even rats wouldn't loiter in after dark.
Where did it all go wrong?
This is what Defining Place, the 2004-2006 review of architecture in
Scotland, published by the Lighthouse, seeks to answer. "We decided this
review should not just be about creating a beauty pageant of buildings,"
says Riccardo Marini, Defining Place steering group member and design
leader of Edinburgh City Council, while admitting that, as an architect,
beauty is no small consideration.
cont'd....
http://living.scotsman.com/visual.cfm?id=467662006