I once was so broke, walking past that building, that I ordered a kebab, realised I couldn’t afford it, and skipped the bill (well, I didn’t go back for my order, so not sure if it counts… Just meant that they made it, and didn’t get to serve it)…
It was a bad time. But also representative of how fucked my entire life has been, tbh, lol…
So yeah, I know the building you speak of.
Agree on the rest. But these (contemporary) buildings were never built to last, anyway. They’re all just built to last 20 years or so, then be abandoned by the company, sold off, and then torn down…
What you’re missing about Hendersons is that it was adaptable, and had been successfully “reused” multiple times.
These giant modern glass buildings are not like that. Even the hotels are very hard to adapt into residential (just ask the people in Caracas who live in a giant half-built tower, lol).
I don’t think it’s any coincidence that the building you deride lasted as long as it did, let’s put it that way…
We just don’t build with that sort of longevity (as pointed out by the architect in the article) or “adaptability” anymore.
But again, agree to disagree.
Inherently, it doesn’t matter what I think anyway. It doesn’t change anything. But it is worthy of discussion, I guess.
I once was so broke, walking past that building, that I ordered a kebab, realised I couldn’t afford it, and skipped the bill (well, I didn’t go back for my order, so not sure if it counts… Just meant that they made it, and didn’t get to serve it)…
It was a bad time. But also representative of how fucked my entire life has been, tbh, lol…
So yeah, I know the building you speak of.
Agree on the rest. But these (contemporary) buildings were never built to last, anyway. They’re all just built to last 20 years or so, then be abandoned by the company, sold off, and then torn down…
What you’re missing about Hendersons is that it was adaptable, and had been successfully “reused” multiple times.
These giant modern glass buildings are not like that. Even the hotels are very hard to adapt into residential (just ask the people in Caracas who live in a giant half-built tower, lol).
I don’t think it’s any coincidence that the building you deride lasted as long as it did, let’s put it that way… We just don’t build with that sort of longevity (as pointed out by the architect in the article) or “adaptability” anymore.
But again, agree to disagree.
Inherently, it doesn’t matter what I think anyway. It doesn’t change anything. But it is worthy of discussion, I guess.