I don't mind being catergorised as an old stick in the mud along with Prince Charles for thinking a lot of modern architecture comes under the description carbuncle.
On the news sites today the Accordia housing estate in Cambridgeshire has been awarded the 2008 Stirling Prize for architecture. Now I have never been to the estate so cannot comment on the room sizes and proportions which enamoured the judges.
Their descriptions of the estate include it is "not afraid of communal aspirations and aesthetics" and "It is architecture which gives hope for us all for the future". High praise.
So am I the only one that on seeing the article's accompany photo of part of the estate below immediately thought of crematoriums and Nazi gas chambers?:
whenever I see flat roofs I dispair!
Posted by: Pete | 12 October 2008 at 05:06 PM
People who design buildings like that should be forced to live in them, I have a feeling they'd soon change their minds about the aesthetics.
Posted by: Kate | 13 October 2008 at 03:22 PM
No - you're not the only one to think the way you do! And all those hard lines!
Posted by: Tricia | 13 October 2008 at 04:38 PM
I am thinking along the same lines as you.....
Posted by: Rachel | 14 October 2008 at 09:55 AM