Right after this blog was published, I was able to get a great little Beach Cottage collection pulled together. There’s a good 15 elevations & plans for these mostly 1 or 2 room plans. I like them because they are whimsical, and I think just fun to work on.
Take a look if you get the chance.
Though these posts specifically will target Architectural Design, sometimes people have to look at other eye sores as well, such as CasaDice’s Road front signage It’s really above and beyond, almost an assault. Though humorous.
These buildings were once a great example of a classical single-story downtown storefront, with high brick parapet walls and good store frontage. The storefronts offered goods and services with the flair of a downtown shopping center. They have since been trashed with some Owner’s / builder’s idea of a sloping roof, to keep water out. True, it gets the job done, but at the cost of aesthetical appearance.
I’ve calculated the cost of the framing, metal roofing and metal frontage along both buildings, its staggering versus the “flat” roof they could have replaced both roofs with, and the design would have been in keeping with the original downtown designs.So, instead of just blogging, I’ve spoken with members of the Downtown Revitalization Comity, as well as the Local Chamber, both feel we missed an opportunity to define our Downtown Business District with stricter design codes, and now we have this junk to offer the world.
Of course the blame really shifts to the Owner / Contractor and City entities where had design principles been in place to keep junk out of our downtown, the Owner would have saved money, the builder would look like they knew what they were doing classically, and the City would have appeared more in tune with.Don’t get me wrong, the Contractor did a fine job in keeping water out, this is the purpose of Architecture. The Owner recognizes they need to provide a water-proof building to their tenants, so this isn’t a smear on any one, its simply a missed opportunity pointed out.
I run a small drafting company, effectively am self employed. For the most part, doing production drafting and being disgusted by bad architecture. The idea here is not to just increase my google page rankings, or make money. There have been several blogs & feeds I relly enjoy, and have been inspired.SO with this site, I’m going to disperse pictures of bad architecture, and explain why it stinks. Most of the time I will be making fun of people’s dwellings, I also have a ton of old articles I have written, and as time goes by, I will post those as well.