Originally Posted by
happy daze john in oz
Watching a video sent by a member yesterday.
It was of a Drone flying over Italian cities.
It showed some of the wonders of a time long gone, The Colosseum, Leaning Tower of Pizza, Churches and Cathedrals built many centuries past, the wonders of Venice with St Marks Square. The wonderful countryside, small villages so neatly laid out, lakes and rivers meandering across the land.
The architecture of yesteryear is so superior to anything that modern man can produce, architecture that has stood the test of time.
I recall on my last visit to London in July sailing down the Thames to Greenwhich on a tour boat. Looking at the architecture there, the Tower Of London built back in the 1070's onwards, St Pauls Cathedral, Greenwhich buildings also the work of Sir C. Wren and many others.
I compared them to the modern day architecture, the Shard, the Cheese Grater as it is known and many of the modern day buildings.
None have character or will stand the test of time, and in cities all around the nation buildings of time spast still standing while surrounded by some of the most hideous buildings ever conceived by man.
Yes times change as do designs but for me the old one will always appeal far beyond any thing modern man can produce.