Castle review thread.

[Montegriffo]

OK, be a soulless old fuddy-duddy then Carlus.
As far as I know, the final design hasn't been settled on but the appointed architecture is a traditionalist who has said ''traditional or I walk'' but Macron and the guy he put in overall command of the restoration are more open to innovation.
Farmer Paul reckons they should leave it as it is and build a small church inside the ruins. It's not like the current congregation is big enough to fill a cathedral anymore.
I quite like that option too as it tells the history of the building rather than trying to hide it behind a cloned restoration.

[Xenophon]

Art Deco is better.

[Montegriffo]

Architectural reactionaries.
We'd all still be living in caves and mud huts if everyone thought like you lot.

[Hastur]

Art Deco is better.

Yes. It embraced the best of its time, was modern in the sense that it looked completely new. But it wasn't "modernist". It didn't reject all previous ideas of aesthetics and tradition. It acknowledged the beauty in nature and myth.

[Hastur]

I was thinking more of Art Nouveau there but it paved the way for Art Deco, so I tend to lump them together. The last of the beautiful styles. Before Bauhaus opened the door for the Brutalists that destroyed so much of European beauty after WWII.

[Xenophon]

I was thinking more of Art Nouveau there but it paved the way for Art Deco, so I tend to lump them together. The last of the beautiful styles. Before Bauhaus opened the door for the Brutalists that destroyed so much of European beauty after WWII.

Brutalism is garbage.

[Montegriffo]

The thing I've never understood about the concrete monstrosities of brutalist architecture is the lack of colour. I understand the need to rebuild quickly and cheaply after the war but why everything was left in a dreary grey finish escapes me. Surely the cost of painting these buildings was not the deciding factor.
That said, it is not completely without merit. With a bit of imagination, along with the versitility of the materials it was possible to design some stunning and innovative buildings. All of which would have been improved by the addition of colour IMO.

[Montegriffo]

Rediscover this day
Mar 22, 2019

https://photos.google.com/rediscover/Cg ... Y2UzYmI5Yw

[C-Mag]

It's a year later and France still has no cause for th he Notre Dame fire.

What's up?

The reactionary original OFFICIAL cause of bad wiring has bern proven completely false. As it turns out all the electrical met stringent codes.

Why was this lie made official so early on ?

[Montegriffo]

It's a year later and France still has no cause for th he Notre Dame fire.

What's up?

The reactionary original OFFICIAL cause of bad wiring has bern proven completely false. As it turns out all the electrical met stringent codes.

Why was this lie made official so early on ?

It wasn't a lie it was the best theory at the time. There has since been evidence that it could have been workers on the scaffolding disobeying the smoking ban.
The alarm systems were woefully inadequate too as they alerted people to a fire starting with smoke detectors but didn't pinpoint the origin of the fire.
Lessons learned the hard way.