Will future generations look back on this building with awe and reverence — the vanguard of an emerging aesthetic? A bold new heritage to sweep away the fusty old one.
Broadway between Highbury and Wallace
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Probably, when you consider how many ersatz turreted or faux thatched or “Seven Dwarfed” houses from the ’30s and ’40s appear in the Sun being held up as paragons of character or heritage that “can’t possibly be torn down”. Every era has its awful. Or as my father, the director of a large public art gallery, put it: “Chaque un a son goo.”
I just threw up in my mouth! Good god what a monstrosity. We need some sort of panel to review SFH design apparently.
Anyone who knows anything about real heritage will sing a resounding No! in chorus.
Just wait ’til night and you see all the LED lights under every soffit, blazing at every level! A Personal Parthenon…
How’d they get approval to build that monster to the lot lines? It dwarves nearly everything else on the block.
Actually, it wouldn’t be allowed to build beyond the existing setback lines, usually 1.2 m from the property line on the sides and 7.3 m in front. The resulting massive footprint of the structure is indicative of the enormous waste of land contained in tens of thousands of open lots in RS zones in the Metro. This is not just a city problem.
The Carbuncle on Broadway; the Pustulous Pastiche; the Popeye Mansion; the Pile Behind the Scrofulous Scaffolding; the Quintessence of Crap; the Anchor (that drags down property values); the Embarassment. Can’t wait to see it hit the market – like a splat of diahrrea. Imagine the interior.
Curious to know if this is a spec house. Surely no sane person would have commissioned this surfeit of frou frou.
Eddie Munster apprentices with Robert Venturi and builds a house for his mother.