- Concetta ( @vinceman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 83•4 months ago
Everytime I start to really disagree with things like heritage zoning I see something like this.
- Successful_Try543 ( @Successful_Try543@feddit.de ) 17•4 months ago
Why on earth white plastic windows and baby blue paint?
- apis ( @apis@beehaw.org ) English2•4 months ago
Because though uPVC windows lack the myriad advantages of wood or stone frames, sometimes it is better for the ongoing fabric of a building to just get it weatherproof until someone comes along who can afford to put in more suitable replacements.
Then white uPVC frames are much cheaper than coloured versions.
Can’t speak for the baby blue.
- cerement ( @cerement@slrpnk.net ) 33•4 months ago
only plus I can see is that the renovation is visibly distinguishable – they’re not trying to pass it off as a “restoration” …
- thanks_shakey_snake ( @thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca ) 23•4 months ago
Another comment ITT claims that that’s exactly why they did it this way-- Regulations say it must have that property.
- Tiltinyall ( @Tiltinyall@beehaw.org ) 4•4 months ago
I was just thinking you couldn’t get an A/C installer anywhere near the property without the modern add-on.
- ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝 ( @Emperor@feddit.uk ) English23•4 months ago
I remember when this hit the news and do hope it’s been redone since.
edit: no updates on the Scottish Castle Association since 2012 and TripAdvisor photos show it unchanged other than some weathering.
edit2: Here is the episode of The Restoration Man that focused on the tower and it explains the planning process that led to this monstrosity.
- maniacalmanicmania ( @maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone ) English15•4 months ago
I don’t hate it.
Well maybe you should
- TWeaK ( @Tweak@feddit.uk ) English14•4 months ago
This makes me want to sing the Tetris theme.
- ComradeSharkfucker ( @sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ) English11•4 months ago
- AllNewTypeFace ( @AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ) 9•4 months ago
I believe that’s what they call “postmodern architecture”
- 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍 ( @sxan@midwest.social ) 9•4 months ago
UK server, OK. Fine. But OP has never been to Pennsylvania in the US. Most houses over a hundred years old look like this: you can see the generations that have lived in it. First it’s stone and mortar; then there’s a wood addition ca. the early 1900s; then there’s a more modern addition ca. the 50’s or later. There’s one property that was briefly famous as it came up in Zillow that had 5 clearly distinctive styles and technologies worth of additions on it; it’s like every generation added another room with whatever was in style at the time. I can’t find a picture, but it was hideous.
I don’t know if it’s common all along the mid-Atlantic, but it is super common in Pennsylvania.
- vext01 ( @vext01@lemmy.sdf.org ) 8•4 months ago
Is that a news crew huddling at the foot of it?
- ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝 ( @Emperor@feddit.uk ) English7•4 months ago
It was featured in S1E4 of The Restoration Man, so I presume George Clarke is somewhere in that picture.
edit: and they return to it in S2E5 which is on YouTube.
- moreeni ( @moreeni@lemm.ee ) 6•4 months ago
Average looking house in Ukraine. Khrushchovka that itself doesn’t look too good is ruined by the fact that each flat was renovated with 0 attention to how the other ones look. There are usually some white walls, some gray, some are still orange form the bricks, some balconies have windows, some don’t.
- NigelFrobisher ( @NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ) 5•4 months ago
Everyone laughing at the repairs to your tower until the Mongol hordes return - and theirs still aren’t done because they were waiting to source the right Welsh stone.
- Nightwatch Admin ( @nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl ) 5•4 months ago
Please tag NSFL, my poor eyes aaagh
- waz ( @waz@feddit.uk ) English2•4 months ago
Bit of goosewing grey and it’s good to go.