03-22-2015, 08:16 AM
(03-22-2015, 01:47 AM)mpd618 Wrote: What we gain is the preservation of some buildings that were normal or fashionable in the era that they were built, but are so far out of the realm of normal now that they are maybe even ugly. If changing tastes can take a building from normal to ugly, they can also take it to interesting. Myself, I prefer an interesting city.
I'm OK with preserving interesting examples of an architectural style even if not considered necessarily pretty, for example the brutalist Court House.
The Heritage Committee on the other hand seems bent on saving every ugly and mediocre example of an architectural style. Don't fool yourself, this doesn't make the city interesting. It makes it ugly and mediocre.