Ranting, revisited
Oct. 31st, 2006 10:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hellisonRe yesterday's rant on the new extension to the Grand Opera House, since I couldn't find any pictures online anywhere, I used the powar of CAMERA PHONE to get my own. So now you can make your own minds up!
This is how it looks in the cold light of day. Clicking get a larger version (tho, not much i think ;p) and you can see how the delightful green concrete (WHY??) already looks stained.
And at night (well about 5ish yesterday. But it was already DARK! woe).
I will admit it doesn't look as hideous by night, but it still DOESN'T FIT, and that's my main problem with it. Somewhere else (an industrial estate maybe ;p), it might not look so bad, so out of place, but here? It looks like someone's Blue Peter project stuck on the side.
Surely they could have tried to build something that... blended better? Not a replica or just copying the style, but SOMETHING that doesn't clash so much?
And no-one will blow it up now either :/
This is how it looks in the cold light of day. Clicking get a larger version (tho, not much i think ;p) and you can see how the delightful green concrete (WHY??) already looks stained.
And at night (well about 5ish yesterday. But it was already DARK! woe).
I will admit it doesn't look as hideous by night, but it still DOESN'T FIT, and that's my main problem with it. Somewhere else (an industrial estate maybe ;p), it might not look so bad, so out of place, but here? It looks like someone's Blue Peter project stuck on the side.
Surely they could have tried to build something that... blended better? Not a replica or just copying the style, but SOMETHING that doesn't clash so much?
And no-one will blow it up now either :/
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Date: 2006-10-31 10:42 am (UTC)That really is bad. I mean BAD. Urgh.
It looks like something that needs lancing.
Yes, it is all shiney at night, but it looks like a brightly lit shameless office building.There is a way of making arts and culture more appealing, more accessible, more attrative particularly to pedestrian traffic, but Dude, c'mon! at least try and blend a little.
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Date: 2006-10-31 10:50 am (UTC)Nothing much like a theatre tho - especially given what it's attached to! How hard would it have been to make it look a LITTLE bit like it was meant to be the same building?
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Date: 2006-10-31 10:55 am (UTC)You naughty naughty woman, woman woman,
Im naughty man, naugty happy man
Remember that? The office goblin christmas song? Heheh.
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Date: 2006-10-31 11:14 am (UTC)I've never heard that song! I have a feeling I'm missing out