Comments on: Richard Rogers 'Sustainable' design for Chelsea Barracks https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/richard-rogers-sustainable-design-for-chelsea-barracks/ Gardenvisit.com Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:02:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 By: Tom Turner https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/richard-rogers-sustainable-design-for-chelsea-barracks/#comment-839 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:02:43 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=1832#comment-839 Amazing re the history of floating airports.
Thank you for your re-assurance re Richard Rogers – I prepared to wait.

]]> By: Christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/richard-rogers-sustainable-design-for-chelsea-barracks/#comment-838 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:43:22 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=1832#comment-838 ps. The text suggests there is an impact of ‘shadowing’ from ocean structures…the relocateable option might assist with this problem.

]]> By: Christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/richard-rogers-sustainable-design-for-chelsea-barracks/#comment-837 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:40:31 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=1832#comment-837 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 https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/richard-rogers-sustainable-design-for-chelsea-barracks/#comment-836 Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:58:29 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=1832#comment-836 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 https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/richard-rogers-sustainable-design-for-chelsea-barracks/#comment-835 Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:01:11 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=1832#comment-835 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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