CRUDE ARCHITECTURE.
THE NEW REGENT STREET. | ' ; " VULGAR AND RIDICULOUS." LONDON. Oct. 57. Mr. Goodhart-Rendel, president of tha | Architectural Association, describes tha I reconstructed Regent Street as the crowning achievement of the English hapha:sard I school of architecture. "It was a wonderful opportunity of I showing the world what modern English architecture could do, but the constructed < ! monstrosities in stone are vulgar and j ridiculous, and a display of sheer ignorance," he says. I The street should be blown up. Everybody knows that the upper storeys are used for purposes of big stores, yet as ; constructed the buildings appear as shops on the ground floor and blocks ot flats above, with little balconies. I " When the beauty of the new stone has faded the steet will appeal- in iss fullest ghastlihess."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19170, 9 November 1925, Page 9
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