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Sunday, 4th February 2001  |
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10.13
Hotel Acceptable Manchester. "Heaven & Earth" is underway, and I'm waiting for Toyah to present the review of the week's newspapers. Yesterday we walked around the Piccadilly area. The central development, which used to house Piccadilly radio, is as staggeringly ugly & hideously inappropriate as one can find in the UK. In Eastern Europe the communist developments "for the good of the people" are even worse, but that is little comfort as my eyes fall upon the architectural horror that is 1960-70s England. I appreciate the argument that architecture should be of its period, providing the architecture of any period is "good" architecture. There's the problem: what value the opinion of an amateur, especially when a generation of dogmatic Modernist architects new much better? I have no problem with modern, I have many problems with design that lacks care, spontaneity, wit, flexibility and heart.
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