Is anyone else disturbed with the trend of historical & or 'old' buildings being replaced with post-modern architecture?
In my country, hundreds of the original buildings - from when Kuwait was just beginning to find it's identity in architecture - have been demolished, & replaced with either soulless apartments or sleek 'modern' businesses.
It doesn't help that the infrastructure of the roads were not designed to hold as many people that currently inhabit the country, disregarding the fact that they are designed with only the car in mind, - neglecting pedestrian walk-ways.
I just feel, demoralized, no one really cares about national identity when it comes to the aesthetic of architecture here; who here relates?
for small countries like you, it's hard to expand without destroying old stuff.
Belgium has the same problem
Liam Taylor
I hope my country destroys all communist built shit and replaces it with new modern architecture, also dont give a fuck if we demolish Hungarian and Austrian historical buildings
Liam James
it's better than no progress at all user.
Nathaniel Baker
>that's just expanding I disagree, I think what's happening here holds the same sentiment of 'I'll just buy a new one', but on a sociological level, it's disgusting.
It's not that Kuwait even has ancient aqueducts that are being torn down - buildings with any historical significance, which are scarce here - are being destroyed, and replaced with what? buildings that can fit in anywhere, NYC, Valletta, or Vientiane. I say turn the streets that exist now into walk-ways, so people can socialize, & maybe even lose some weight while their at it.
Thomas Rivera
Sorry, they're*
Xavier Wright
I know of an arab guy who addressed this as his graduate thesis he crashed a plane into one of the twin towers.
Jose Torres
This is predominantly a Euroshit trend, we keep our historical buildings, well, historical here
postmodern is a fucking cancer architecture gives a place a sense of belonging pomo and modern architects should be thrown from their own buildings
Adrian James
interesting, but i didnt want to know the journalist's opinion about it. wish he had just posted the thesis instead of being a fagot and telling his shitty story. journalists suck. > inb4 thesis cant be published also lmao at germcucks approving a master on a city design based around oppressing women. for fucks sake. where does the dancing israelis fit in all this? LOL
Charles Bennett
>we keep our historical buildings Wouldn't mind the old Mexican architecture in the Southwest being demolished for better use of the land, though. Can't say I give too much of a fuck about that stuff. I'd prefer the old Colonial buildings stay up, though, that's the history that matters.
Aaron Lewis
As the article says, the guy with the thesis can't release it for fear of being sued into oblivion by Atta's father. It's kept under lock and key. There are small excerpts out there, though. I'll be sure to post any I can find.
Jacob Allen
Who gives a shit about old buildings? They don't serve any purpose.
It would be better to tear them down one by one before they collapse on someone. It costs way more money to maintain those shits than to build a safe and useful brand new building.
Just read about the Notre Dame 120 million Euros so it doesn't fall into pieces.
Henry Ward
>It costs way more money to maintain those shits Good point. I mean by this point we do have all historical architecture archived on the internet forever, so it's not like we are erasing actual history by tearing down buildings.
I doubt the people that built them in the past meant for them to be around for a million years, they just served a purpose at the time and fulfilled it.
Nathan Carter
I don't care, tear them all up.
Isaac Myers
Old buildings are important for tourism m8. France is the most visited country in the world and historical buildings are an important attraction. That 120 million renovation will pay off in the grand scheme of things.
Asians and Americans come to Europe for the old-world "museum" feels. If they wanted modern, they could just stay at home. Europeans themselves have been brainwashed to adore their old buildings while rejecting their traditional culture.
Camden Butler
we have so many ancient ruins that we just build on them because we can't save everything. if you make a hole in the ground I bet you will find an ancient roman house or something roman related. so now we don't have good infrastructures plus burocracy is shit
Liam Cruz
post kuwait historical buildings
Wyatt James
surely italy has plenty of land to make new cities, cant live in the old centers and want modern garbage . cant have it both ways
Blake Ramirez
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Kevin Price
This was the gate to Kuwait city, It doesn't exist anymore
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Lincoln Nelson
No. If a building is worth preservation and has legit history it should stand but muh buildings should not go in the way of development.
Also a lot of places don't have that long established culture or few buildings of note.
Ayden Gomez
>surely italy has plenty of land to make new cities
They don't it's fucking europe. That modern garbage is pretty important in the daily lives and running of a city.
Jordan Bell
That looks ridiculously small. If that was preserved, all traffic would have to be routed through somewhere else.
Also the problem you are talking about is mostly exclusive to the middle east. Construction industry is too large. There's some exceptions like London, though.
Ian Nguyen
>I doubt the people that built them in the past meant for them to be around for a million years, they just served a purpose at the time and fulfilled it.
Most building were added onto or altered heavily over the years.
Hunter Sanders
Depends on the building. Sometimes a historical building is just "unliveable", because the qaulity of the building. In the 19th-century a lot of weak historical buildings have been built here, but those get replaced by other ones sometimes (like pic). Nobody would ever replace a pre 18th-century here, because they just have a really good quality.
Ryder Robinson
well, i guess some folks like it that way, and it happend that the guy in charge of that building did. but dont worry as these buildings become more and more rare the value starts blowing and you will see not only the old ones being conserved but new ones that resemble the old architecture
Christopher Evans
Lots of older old building are basically the good ones that through stuff like real estate, usefulness to the owner, utility, mass usage (but good returns on repair) and other factors were preserved while otherness got demolished of fell into decay/became hazards.
