I agree with you 110%, Wayne. The houses built today are shit, and this
one isn't even being replaced with one of those. It is being replaced with
a giant hole in the ground, a limestone quarry. As I mentioned in another
response to this, there are already 6 quarries in Allen County.
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On 4/7/13 3:29 AM, "Wayne Harridge" <wayne.harridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>Fair enough, if something decent replaces it ! In my neighbourhood there
>have been some beautiful houses demolished to build: ugly blocks of flats
>or
>units, neo-Georgian, neo-Victorian, etc., etc., which look totally out of
>place in the streetscape. Basically I'm all for good architecture not the
>derivative crap that often seems to pass for "architecture" here.
>
>...Wayne
>
>
>>
>> The photo is good. As for the other comment, I disagree. This is just an
>> ordinary old house, nothing special IMO. Just because something is old
>does
>> not mean that it is worth preserving. If people in the past had just
>wanted to
>> preserve THEIR past, we would not have many of our iconic buildings
>> today...what was on the site before the Empire State Building was built,
>for
>> example? Should it have been preserved instead?
>>
>> Cities (and human landscape in general) are dynamic. They change and
>> evolve. London's skyline has changed enormously the past 20 years. The
>> additions have mostly improved the city. And so it goes.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Nathan
>>
>> Nathan Wajsman
>> Alicante, Spain
>> http://www.frozenlight.eu
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>>
>> YNWA
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Apr 6, 2013, at 4:34 PM, DZDub wrote:
>>
>> > On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 3:01 AM, Chris Crawford
>> > <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >> wrote:
>> >
>> >> http://chriscrawfordphoto.com/chris-details.php?product=1619
>> >>
>> >> I shot this Thursday evening.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Two things:
>> >
>> > I'm glad you got a photo of the house. The sky is a little darker
>>than
>I
>> > am used to in your photos (which is neither here not there), but I
>> > like the light on the building itself. It's beautiful.
>> >
>> > Secondly -- an extra-photographic comment -- it breaks my heart to see
>> > a grand old house like that fall out of repair and bite the dust.
>> > Nothing that comes back in its place will compare.
>> >
>> > Joel W.
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