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Originally Posted by Tom
Maybe we should just pull any iconic buildings down if they're in the way etc or falling apart, after all none of us were about when these things within British heritage were built/started
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What does that have to do with anything? Britain's remaining traditional architecture is protected by the government and local councils. Most of the fugly concrete tower blocks that stand in place of where more uniform Georgian and Victorian buildings might have stood are there as a result of feckless town and city planners trying to rebuild inner cities in their ill-considered utopian image following the bombings in WWII.
And some of the 'non-Western' architecture built for ethnic and religious minorities happen to scrub up very well too. For instance the Neasden Temple in London is a beautiful building and the largest Hindu temple outside of India.