Yes, as I said I don't like the grid layout because all the windows line up and it's like being watched. Very odd feeling. That pic gives a false impression too because the small development is surrounded by higgeldy piggeldy normal homes and it's all a bit chaotic.
I like how cities and countries even, evolve and keep a look. All these architects currently ruining the London skyline with their unsympathetic ego trips drive me nuts. These vastu pads are built according to local styles though, I remember them doing the research and picking the features of the best looking places, the grid thing spoils it though, and you have to sign a contract saying you won't alter it by putting extensions on the side. Still, each to their own but I'm sure glad Marshy didn't get his way and rebuild the entire world like this, I'm sure I'd miss bits of London and the odd English town, quite partial to Rome too, and Athens...Paris... etc... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote: I must admit that it [Rendlesham...see photo at bottom] looks kinda ghastly. All that symmetry and "sameness" feels oppressive to me, as if the whole thing is inside some kind of lifeless Truman dome created by an autistic, obessive-compulsive designer/architect. In a city, I tend to prefer...uh...non-sameness and asymmetry. That's one reason I like Leiden. The older areas in which I live are all...uh...older, and so the blocks may consist of row houses, but each one was originally built by an individual family (not to mention families *of* individuals), and so the blocks have a charm that you rarely see in any of these Vastu Woo Woo Lego neighborhoods. For example: The Dutch seem to share my tastes, because even in modern "designer" cities like the one I lived in when I first moved to the Netherlands (95% of it built since 1980), the new row houses preserve this idea of individuality. No two adjacent houses/apartment buildings in the same complex look the same. The silly Vastu Woo Woo stuff notwithstanding, I simply cannot conceive of how people could consider living in "little boxes, all made out of ticky-tacky, and they all look just the same" to really be *living*. Here's a very creative cover of Malvina Reynold's old folk song on the subject by the talented group Walk off the earth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM8JhvfoqdA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM8JhvfoqdA From: salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 4:31 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: Question for Sal Rendlesham in Suffolk. Here's a pic: https://coherenttimes.wordpress.com/tag/rendlesham/ Looks rather nice now the greenery has grown up a bit. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote: Hey Sal, what is the name of the other vastu village in England, is it the place the Skelmersdale folk went to after they discovered the hill was too high?
