| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:91 SHAKESPEARE ROAD - LAST NIGHT'S MEETING | |
| Posted by: | Steve Donnelly | |
| Date/Time: | 20/01/11 12:01:00 |
| Another oddity in our society around development is that, on the rare occasions where architects DO have the chance to do something new and exciting without destroying the past, it often isn't taken. Some of you may have seen the new houses in Pierrepoint Rd, opposite St Vincent's. The site was previously occupied by a large, crushingly ugly, redbrick 'box' (formerly commercial premises); absolutely anything put up there would have been an improvement, and the site is not hemmed in by neighbouring properties in any homogenous style. But instead of something genuinely new, we have six large, semi-detached houses, absolute doppelgangers of the Edwardian semis in Buxton and Chatsworth. Oh, they probably won't offend anyone (apart from me), but my goodness, they are sooooo boring. Perhaps it says as much about us as it does about modern architecture. |