Comments on: Richard Rogers ‘Sustainable’ design for Chelsea Barracks http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/2009/06/28/richard-rogers-sustainable-design-for-chelsea-barracks/ News and debate from Gardenvisit.com Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:57:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Tom Turner http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/2009/06/28/richard-rogers-sustainable-design-for-chelsea-barracks/comment-page-1/#comment-1721 Tom Turner Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:02:43 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=1832#comment-1721 Amazing re the history of floating airports. Thank you for your re-assurance re Richard Rogers - I prepared to wait. Amazing re the history of floating airports.
Thank you for your re-assurance re Richard Rogers - I prepared to wait.

]]> By: Christine http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/2009/06/28/richard-rogers-sustainable-design-for-chelsea-barracks/comment-page-1/#comment-1720 Christine Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:43:22 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=1832#comment-1720 ps. The text suggests there is an impact of 'shadowing' from ocean structures...the relocateable option might assist with this problem. ps. The text suggests there is an impact of ’shadowing’ from ocean structures…the relocateable option might assist with this problem.

]]> By: Christine http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/2009/06/28/richard-rogers-sustainable-design-for-chelsea-barracks/comment-page-1/#comment-1719 Christine Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:40:31 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=1832#comment-1719 Sometimes interesting sketches spark the best creative leaps.... [ http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/06/17/uncle-sam-asked-to-build-floating-ocean-airports/ ] and [ http://www.floatinc.com/Floatport.html ] These examples of ocean airports might suggest how to create firmness, hint at commodity but need a sensitive designer to impart delight! I am sure Rogers will acknowledge the source of his inspiration at the awards ceremony... Sometimes interesting sketches spark the best creative leaps….

[ http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/06/17/uncle-sam-asked-to-build-floating-ocean-airports/ ] and [ http://www.floatinc.com/Floatport.html ]

These examples of ocean airports might suggest how to create firmness, hint at commodity but need a sensitive designer to impart delight!

I am sure Rogers will acknowledge the source of his inspiration at the awards ceremony…

]]> By: Tom Turner http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/2009/06/28/richard-rogers-sustainable-design-for-chelsea-barracks/comment-page-1/#comment-1714 Tom Turner Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:58:29 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=1832#comment-1714 I am pretty sure joyless chasms are not Rogers' stated intention (!) but as so often with professionals who have 'got' the environment message 'The first temptation is the greatest treason, to do the wrong deed for the right reason' TS Eliot had Beckett say, in <em>Murder in the Cathedral</em>, that: <em>Now is my way clear, now is the meaning plain: Temptation shall not come in this kind again. The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.</em> With Rogers attempted murder of urban design in Chelsea, the motivation is clear: to overdevelop the Barracks for a pure and simple motive: filthy lucre. I am pretty sure joyless chasms are not Rogers’ stated intention (!) but as so often with professionals who have ‘got’ the environment message ‘The first temptation is the greatest treason, to do the wrong deed for the right reason’
TS Eliot had Beckett say, in Murder in the Cathedral, that:
Now is my way clear, now is the meaning plain:
Temptation shall not come in this kind again.
The last temptation is the greatest treason:
To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
With Rogers attempted murder of urban design in Chelsea, the motivation is clear: to overdevelop the Barracks for a pure and simple motive: filthy lucre.

]]> By: Ben Olam http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/2009/06/28/richard-rogers-sustainable-design-for-chelsea-barracks/comment-page-1/#comment-1712 Ben Olam Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:01:11 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=1832#comment-1712 If I recall correctly, your drawing of a sustainable city' illustrates a joyless scenario and I am sure that is not the intention of R.R., but I am sure that this would have been the effect. Shaded, joyless chasms between buildings repeated one after the other. If I recall correctly, your drawing of a sustainable city’ illustrates a joyless scenario and I am sure that is not the intention of R.R., but I am sure that this would have been the effect. Shaded, joyless chasms between buildings repeated one after the other.

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