Fair enough, if something decent replaces it ! In my neighbourhood there
have been some beautiful houses demolished to build: ugly blocks of flats or
units, neo-Georgian, neo-Victorian, etc., etc., which look totally out of
place in the streetscape. Basically I'm all for good architecture not the
derivative crap that often seems to pass for "architecture" here.
...Wayne
>
> The photo is good. As for the other comment, I disagree. This is just an
> ordinary old house, nothing special IMO. Just because something is old
does
> not mean that it is worth preserving. If people in the past had just
wanted to
> preserve THEIR past, we would not have many of our iconic buildings
> today...what was on the site before the Empire State Building was built,
for
> example? Should it have been preserved instead?
>
> Cities (and human landscape in general) are dynamic. They change and
> evolve. London's skyline has changed enormously the past 20 years. The
> additions have mostly improved the city. And so it goes.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
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> YNWA
>
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>
>
> On Apr 6, 2013, at 4:34 PM, DZDub wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 3:01 AM, Chris Crawford
> > <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> wrote:
> >
> >> http://chriscrawfordphoto.com/chris-details.php?product=1619
> >>
> >> I shot this Thursday evening.
> >>
> >
> > Two things:
> >
> > I'm glad you got a photo of the house. The sky is a little darker than
I
> > am used to in your photos (which is neither here not there), but I
> > like the light on the building itself. It's beautiful.
> >
> > Secondly -- an extra-photographic comment -- it breaks my heart to see
> > a grand old house like that fall out of repair and bite the dust.
> > Nothing that comes back in its place will compare.
> >
> > Joel W.
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