Post categories: Architecture
|16:01 UK time, Thursday, 8 October 2009
On occasion I get asked about the BBC and its support for high quality architecture. The BBC is housed in many different types of buildings across the
In a Times article featuring one of
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Comment number 1.
At 15:43 8th Oct 2009, MacScroggie wrote:Good architectural design incorporates the "best value for money" concept.
Functionality and simplicity usually good hand in hand with aesthetically pleasing design.
There is no need to engage a high profile architect to obtain a good looking building which meets the client's needs.
The new complex in Glasgow is a case in point.
No need to worry BBC. I think you're really on the ball as far as building design is concerned.
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Comment number 2.
At 20:03 8th Oct 2009, lookingnorth wrote:Isn't it the architectural profession that's got the conflict between art and money the wrong way around?
We attach value to great art after it is created, not when it is commissioned. The's no value above the raw material in a Hepworth until it's complete. And that value of a work of art is given a monetary value by those who trade the art, not the artist.
Great architecture (and art) is valued by those who behold it, not those who commission or create it, however much they might spend, or want to be paid.
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