CRUDE ARCHITECTURE.
THE NEW REGENT STREET. “VULGAR. AND RIDICULOUS.” LONDON, Oct. 27. Mr. Goodhart-Rendel, president of the Architectural Association, describes the reconstructed Regent Street as the crowning achievement of the English haphazard school of architecture. “It was a wonderful opportunity of showing the world what modern English architecture could do, but the constructed monstrosities in stone are vulgar and ridiculous, and a display of sheer ignorance,” ho says. “The street should be blown up. Everybody knows that the upper storeys are used for big stores, yet as constructed the buildings appear as shops on the ground floor and blocks of flats above, with little balconies. “When the beauty of the new stone has faded the street will appear in its fullest ghastliness.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 10 November 1925, Page 9
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122CRUDE ARCHITECTURE. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 10 November 1925, Page 9
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