tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169740113013066976.post5387739470070019934..comments2024-02-10T12:12:06.028+00:00Comments on The Real Blog: London's inhuman towers on the way out?David Boylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11410159311875228620noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169740113013066976.post-63427630678685887722013-08-22T12:45:42.504+01:002013-08-22T12:45:42.504+01:00Not sure I agree.
Many (most?) of the 'grea...Not sure I agree. <br /><br />Many (most?) of the 'great architecture' which tourists visit in the UK today - from the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford, to St Pauls, to Westminster Abbey - was, in its early days, inhuman in its scale and design. Perhaps they still are inhuman, but the point is most of those which survived have come to be appreciated. <br /><br />The sharp, anonymous Shard may seem quaint in a century or two, when it's less shiny (or it may not). These things are hard to predict when the building is new. <br /><br />Perhaps the Shard etc seem bad now because of their association with dodgy capital and autocratic financiers. But the pioneers of Westminster Abbey etc were no less autocratic in their day, funded by money extracted with menaces.<br /><br />And let's face it - anything which stands out in a mega-city like London is bound to be dehumanisingly huge. <br /><br />(From Iain King)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com