Wow - you really dont get it do you? Materials is part of design.
Likeing or not liking a building is different from recognizing that a
particular building is unique in design and worth keeping original.
How many people would buy a house and then stucco one third orange,
brick third yellow and side one third green? It would be rediculous
and the neighbors would have a fit.
What does HoJo have to do with it? I was saying that the building
could have been restored to its original appearance AND the CURRENT
businesses could still be in there.
>From what Ive read that seems to have been the intent but AP got
screwed in that deal.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> "And why must everything be designed in 'suburban-stucco- modern'
> architechture ?
>
> I'm still picturing that bandstand building, how badly it was
> butchered architecturally.
>
> And how easy it would have been to preserve it as the really unique
> piece of AP that it is. It would still be occupied by the same
> businesses. Nothing would be different except it would look like
its
> supposed to, like it was designed to be.
>
> I don't mind the modern boardwalk buildings. I like them.
Were the previous buildings made of brick really that different then
what was going up around them at the time? I don't know, so i'm
asking. It seems like those types of bricks were popular during the
time period. Not a stand out matieral, that separted the boardwalk
from other buildings around towns and citys. I'm speaking about
matiearls, not design.
> Preservation is one thing, but to say it would still be
occupied by the same businesses is crazy. It was empty other then
HOJO? HOJO's days were numbered as it was, not because of it's
location, but the whole chain itself.
> I'm not up to date on how things were left with the
bandshell. I'm still thinking work was promissed on the lower half,
and the upper half was set for a later date?
>
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