https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1791795/London-Trocadero-mosque-plan-billionaire
To be entirely fair, the company behind the plan, Criterion Capital, has already fricking ruined it by turning it into a pod hotel with 728 windowless rooms.
!britbongs another big L on the books, although in my opinion London should be nuked from orbit anyway
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I'm surprised it is only Grade II listed. Dealing with listed buildings is probably very annoying for owners but you'd only have to think how horrible the alternative is to realize how important it is.
The interior looks like it was fin-de-siècle and some art nouveau, which England doesn't have ton of but that is long gone now anyways. I hope he can't put minarets on the exterior.
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I often find it strange how anal retentive councils are about listing particulars, because you can get away with committing atrocities to the interior of a building, so long as the exterior is untouched.
My real concern is horrible soviet shit like this is going to start getting listed soon due to age, rather than blown apart with demolition charges, and their footprint salted.
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I hate like most Victorian architecture for instance but I would still support it's preservation but buildings like that were never popular with the public and I think represent a failing of architecture with its role in society. I'm going to guess they get jumped to the front of the line because they represent the welfare state or something
while grassroots orgs had to fight Bath from being leveled.
while I think being listed it's a good concept, I guess it's the fact that it has to fall to local councils that makes it often... not good. The same with the National Trust (that's more of an exampe of nightmares with huge, corporate charities than the government). I get so mad when I think of Clandon House.
maybe one day I'll write a post about that and the National Trust's recent activity.
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That particular case reminded me of the plans to 'modernise' notre dame. Still makes me
I'm really glad that Bath has (mostly) kept its character, but annoying that the fricking UN had to get involved to prevent local councils from turning it into Arkhangelsk like they do everywhere else
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I think people could now report it and get them fined but planners in like the '70s would used to let listed buildings get decrepit until it they were deem unsafe and had to be razed.
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