Good and Bad manners

I've always felt that one of the ways in which much modern architecture (by which I mean post WW2) fails is that it is simply bad-mannered - it shouts out 'ME ME' and elbows its way to your attention without regard for anyone else around. Who ever thought such a crude box would sit happily in this context? Did it ever even enter the architects head to try? At street level it's even worse - look at the crudely detailed facade at pavement level. It is like the fat boy elbowing his way into the crowd around the food at a party.

(I'm sorry for the crude layout of this post, I'm trying to get to grips with the display options in Typepad.)

Comments

[jhfvjh]

I think the modern building there fits in perfectry and is a very intelligent contrast.

[hgkjkj]

--it is divided in three part just like the buildings around it, with an open lower space, two floor closed wall with an honest expression ( the conctrete floors visible as in a section and the room between filled with glass) and then the open closure with a liften roof that looks like a cornice. It shown off it's sceleton structure, while the older buildings around it have an obviously faked sceleton structures with pasted pilasters, and a faked base made to look like as if it's made of rough stone block. It expresses an openess that the modern building 'actually' has, and they make each other both look beautiful, in my eyes.

[okokok]

the area where there are so many old buildings, especially in classical style, should be heritaged.