▼

Tuesday, 6 July 2010

Disneyland for Aberdeen?



Who lives in a house like this? This building is brand new.

Dismayed by the waste of materials implied by the creation of this pompous pastiche which misdirects capital and skills to re-visit the past, we find ourselves asking "why?"

Scotland has many, many buildings like this - there's no need to create new ones; the Victorians were actually quite good with this French-Gothic style. Has our era no style of its own which we can be proud of?





6 comments:

  1. Iain Richardson6 July 2010 at 16:25

    Wow! Where is this architectural delight?

    ReplyDelete
  2. Key Stakeholder6 July 2010 at 18:57

    This confection of construction is in Bieldside. But the more pertinent question is "who?".

    ReplyDelete
  3. MWA7 July 2010 at 14:17

    Witness the "eco-house" emerge, like a butterfly from a chrysalis cocoon ... (third movie down)

    http://oxblue.com/demos/time_lapse_movies

    ReplyDelete
  4. Key Stakeholder7 July 2010 at 14:55

    Splendid! Thanks for that. More info here:

    http://www.heraldscotland.com/millionaire-plans-to-replace-stately-home-with-zero-carbon-showpiece-1.857792

    http://www.heraldscotland.com/milne-allowed-to-bulldoze-his-historic-home-for-eco-house-1.865686

    ReplyDelete
  5. MWA7 July 2010 at 22:46

    Let's play "Through the Keyhole" ... which infamous "eco-warrior" inhabits this humble abode with his trusty housekeeper, Mrs Doubtfire?

    http://www.aberdeenphoto.com/userfiles/Events/E100512NG_Dinner/

    ReplyDelete
  6. Anonymous3 June 2011 at 11:51

    Jeez, 'ats minkit!

    ReplyDelete

Other Aberdeen is a broad church - discourse is welcome. You're welcome to disagree with us, but do be polite. We hate it when people aren't polite.

One thing we really hate is hostile or disingenuous trolling and so comments like that will be removed. Unless of course we can use Kung Fu to turn the hostile or trolling comment to our advantage or entertainment.

We'll also remove any comments which promote commercial concerns, we hate that too. Ian Jamieson - don't do that again. Your obsequious over-solicitousness is a dead give-away and shows you to be a lazy dishonest twat attempting to hide your true motivation. Actually - that's *very* Aberdeen.

Oh, and don't abuse the facility to comment anonymously, or we'll just remove it.