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Old Posted Sep 22, 2010, 5:51 PM
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What makes old Penn Station objectively better than new Penn Station? NOTHING
Nonsense. By virtue of being a good public space, old Penn Station encouraged increased use of the nearby sidewalk, rail facilities, and shops. New Penn Station discourages all those things. The difference is objective.

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I think its hugely ironic that someone would actually come right out in this thread and use that reasoning since thats the antithesis of the preservation movement.
I don't care about preservation for preservation's sake. I care about good buildings.
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I should have mentioned that the job was techinically a renovation, but as you can see in the link, the final product is a thousand times better then what was previously there, and so totally different that it is practically a new building.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sour...67.35,,0,-9.27
I'd be interesting to see what it looked like as built. It could go either moderne or stripped classical judging from the facade composition, if it had any "style" going on at all .

IMO the renovation lacks rigor, the original was actually more successful as a piece of classical architecture. (in composition if not detailing), its more or less a pasting of elements. Goofy stepped pilaster bases = fail. They should have just kept the exterior appearance and spent the cast stone budget on decent metal divided light windows or brise solei to provide finer scale visual interest that would match the squared off aesthetic.
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Nonsense. By virtue of being a good public space, old Penn Station encouraged increased use of the nearby sidewalk, rail facilities, and shops. New Penn Station discourages all those things. The difference is objective.
But that's not what you were just arguing. You didn't ask why is this better from an urban design standpoint, you asked why is it aesthetically better. Besides, the arguments you just made are completely bunk anyhow since you have no objective evidence to prove that it encouraged or discouraged anything. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that the New Penn station sees far higher use of rail facilities and shops than the old Penn station did in its last few years. Remember they tore it down because train ridership everywhere was waning and the Pennsylvania railroad needed $$$. I have a feeling up to twice as many people use Penn Station today as did in 1960. Isn't over crowding now one of the rants against Penn Station?

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I don't care about preservation for preservation's sake. I care about good buildings.
Case in point. You don't give a damn whether there is inherent value in something, you only care if its "good". "good" is inherently subjective and its constantly changing definition and caused the wanton destruction of thousands of extremely valuable structures. What defines good? Is it personal aesthetic taste? Is it whatever is in style? Is it new? Is it buildings with no soot on them? Is it better urban planning? No, its any and all of these things which is why you cannot use that word. Its people like you who constantly cause architectural disasters.

Do you think that Penn Station would have been leveled if what was believed to be "good" urban planning at the time called for something on the scale of new Penn Station? Do you think they would have destroyed it if ye olde roman headhouses were the "good" style at the time instead of giant bland slabs? Do you think it would have happened if people didn't assume that new=good? Or do you think that maybe it wouldn't have been destroyed if people sat and thought "wait, what we think is good doesn't matter, its inherent historical, economic, social, and cultural value must be preserved"?

Then again, I guess architectural, historical, and cultural significance means nothing and we should only keep "good buildings" however we chose to define that...
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Old Posted Sep 22, 2010, 8:55 PM
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Aesthetics affect and are part of urban design, which is not subjective. At its most basic, people on the sidewalk need frequent things to look at, or a street feels empty, which discourages pedestrian use. In that sense, by virtue of offering more detailed, ornate buildings, traditional architecture is objectively superior to modern architecture from an urban design standpoint, generally speaking (there are plenty of exceptions). These arguments can be found in any book on urban design written since Jane Jacobs. They are also why it is not acceptable for architects to treat the aesthetics of their buildings as abstract art, to be based on the stylistic whims of the year without regard for urban design functionality.

But if you'd like to go on believing the rant you just spouted off, be my guest. I'll not clutter a thread intended for photos by further responding to off-topic debate.
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Handcrafted limestone exterior complete with balustrades, orbels, and wrought iron finishes.

Quite possible one of the greatest buildings constructed on American soil in the past 50 years!

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Case in point. You don't give a damn whether there is inherent value in something, you only care if its "good". "good" is inherently subjective and its constantly changing definition and caused the wanton destruction of thousands of extremely valuable structures. What defines good? Is it personal aesthetic taste? Is it whatever is in style? Is it new? Is it buildings with no soot on them? Is it better urban planning? No, its any and all of these things which is why you cannot use that word. Its people like you who constantly cause architectural disasters.
"Good" is not completely subjective. Judgements of artistic value by humans follow several different but consistent metrics. Its not arbitrary. Mastery of a medium within a certain set of rules, visual pleasure based in neuroaesthetics, intellectual complexity, familiarity, rarity etc. Something can excel in one of these categories and utterly fail in all the others.

A brutalist concrete bunker of a building may be intellectually brilliant in terms of its programmatic resolution and tectonic expression but may be completely horrible in terms of aesthetic pleasure to those who are unlikely to understand the arguments it is based on. People generally don't like to be near things that are ugly or unwelcoming . Big Suprise. Its an observable phenomenon that impacts the urban environment, so I'd say thats a pretty solid foundation to make a value judgement, especially as we know more about about environmental psychology as time progresses.

Fun reading material: http://pdfcast.org/pdf/architectural...c-architecture
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^^^ You see this is exactly what I am talking about though. There are certainly patterns in what people consider to be "good". However, there are always exceptions to the rule and temporarily popular styles. For example, in theory humans should hate bland glass boxes, but for 30 years we couldn't get enough of them and thought all the old architecture was trash. The fact that we acted on our temporary preference for glass boxes by destroying the old caused huge damage to our stock of historic buildings. No matter how many studies conclude humans like fractal patterns or human scaled detail, it doesn't change the fact that every once in a while those things go out of style and we start destroying them. This is exactly why "good" is subjective. We change our minds on what is "good" all the time. In 1995 "good" was a Ford Excursion, in 2010 "good" is a Toyota Prius. In 1995 "good" was pomo cartoon architecture, in 2010 "good" is Aqua or Beakman. Show me how that is in any way constant.
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That is very well done, Im glad some stuff like that is still being built and actually looks good unlike crap like the Eylesian.
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Not bad, but by far not as good as the one before. The proportions are stil not right. 1st the windows are to small and without any ornamentation seem to be of newer age than the rest of the building. 2nd. the builing is not in line with its neighbours and thats just very bad planing.
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Old Posted Nov 4, 2010, 10:19 PM
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The mansion is excellent.

The Lincoln Park townhouses don't qualify. The middle one maybe, but the top one and especially the bottom one are modern designs. Facing a building in brick or stone does not make it traditional.
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