A Pox on Belfast Architects
Grrrr. Over the last few months I’ve grown irritated with the trend amongst Belfast architects towards slapping a glass front onto a new building and thinking they’re doing something clever. Just because Norman Foster can do interesting things with glass doesn’t mean you have to try in your own inept, unimaginative way.
Tearing down the facade of a gorgeous Victorian or Edwardian townhouse to replace it with a wall of glass which doesn’t fit in with rest of the street in any way is just incompetent. If you do that, or employ an architect to do it you should be ashamed. Do something interesting, try something different. Make the effort to complement your surroundings. I don’t mind a radical design, Michèle could tell you that I’m partial to the odd bit of eccentric architecture, and it must be said that pretty much anything else would be preferable to the current design fad in Belfast.
Right, I’ve got that rant out of my system for now. It has been building for the last few months. I pass a number of these “developments” on my way to work and they irritate me each time I see them. Maybe I can start getting over this now :)