Architexturez wrote:
| now what we don't understand is the link between a city with
| old buildings and a city without.
| two more from the Old Buildings are the city's soul
| department. Now where is Cedric Price when we need him?
Toranto: "In a way, the city's action was a kind of mercy kill, a case
of architectural euthanasia; these once stately houses had been
neglected for so long, they were in terrible shape. They had become an
eyesore, through no fault of their own."
cont'd....
http://www.thestar.com/article/216639
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Beijing: "In Zhuhai, a prosperous city neighbouring the former
Portuguese enclave of Macao, the Chinese government has built a replica
of the Old Summer Palace so Chinese tourists can learn about history.
The original was destroyed in 1860. First French forces and then the
British attacked Emperor Qianlong's pleasure dome. The instructions to
burn it down were given by the 8th Lord Elgin - son of the 7th Lord
Elgin of Marbles fame - who was leading British forces in the Second
Opium War. The ruins lie just outside Beijing.
Today, young Chinese wander amid the white columns and wedding-cake
architecture of the new, fake palace. The aim is to ensure that today's
Chinese understand and learn from their humiliating colonial past. But
the government has an ambiguous relationship with historic buildings."
cont'd....
http://www.newstatesman.com/200705280025