Comment 120144

By RobF (registered) | Posted September 27, 2016 at 15:53:48

Every one of these buildings was once under threat of full or partial demolition. In each case, individuals and groups got together to save them.

Yep, because buildings become just "old" before being valued as historic and worthy of heritage preservation. Modernist buildings, especially schools and civic buildings from the 1950s and 1960s, are undervalued for a bunch of reasons, but mainly its because they are still relatively common place.

Assuming an imaginative retrofit were to happen, 20 years from now people will appreciate the foresight of those who cared enough to at least suggest it was possible.

Northeastwind: most buildings are just boxes ... modernists were just more honest in not hiding it with ornamentation. The real question is the embedded carbon footprint and whether the building is structurally sound and suited to a retrofit ...

Comment edited by RobF on 2016-09-27 15:56:29

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