On 8 Dec 2020, at 08:07, David Mann <dmann...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Dec 7, 2020, at 11:07 PM, Bob Pdml <pdm...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The facade of the church looks as if it might be rescue-able. There is a lot >> of ‘facadism’ going on over here where they demolish everything but the >> front of the building and put something modern behind it. > > There's quite a bit of that going on here after the earthquakes. > > Prior to that the Clarendon Hotel was demolished and a tower block was built > behind the old facade. It looked absolutely terrible. It was all damaged > beyond repair by the quakes and is currently an empty site being used as a > car park. > > https://canterburystories.nz/exhibitions/places-christchurch-buildings/clarendon-hotel
That’s really barbaric isn’t it? There was talk a few years ago of doing something similar to Greenwich Market, building a glass and steel tower inside the old market building. Luckily for once good taste prevailed and they carried out a sympathetic restoration and improvement of the way space is used. There’s still a lot of talk about doing something nasty at Smithfield Market though. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
