London
What are the elements which every edifice should have?
1 Access to parking for delivery vehicles together with emergency vehicles. How are the handicapped, the letters, parcel post delivery, the furniture, the ambulance together with the burn brigade ladders going to make the building?
2 Emergency exits, burn escapes.
3 Windows to indicate that yous require help, windows to allow ventilation, sunlight for vitamin D to occupants.
4 Sustainability - workplaces nearby.
5 Food production places nearby. What happens inwards a tidal wave, ash preventing flights, flooding, fire, bombing, isolation due to sinkholes, famine from harvest, wartime, civil riots, snowfall together with H2O ice underfoot, kids are quarantined, granny breaks her talocrural articulation or hip? Yes, yous could grow mushrooms nether the sink, together with tomatoes on the windowsill - if yous had a sunny window. A
Colour, Curves together with Comfort
Worst new: Harrow is becoming oppressive amongst huge windowless walls rise from the pavement.
Best new: It is expert to found trees to suspension upward the paving expanse together with this is beingness done inwards the upgraded outdoor pedestrian shopping expanse linking the 2 big malls, St George's, which has friezes of St George within at the top, which most people belike don't fifty-fifty notice, together with St Ann's reverse the Harrow on the Hill railway together with autobus station.
Best Old
Here's onetime Harrow, amongst horizontal lines, arched windows, arched architraves, statues amongst semicircular plinths adding to a greater extent than curves. Patterned brickwork.
Best Design
The novel complex which has been finished later years of beingness empty, is both curved together with stepped. (But a commentator said that curved walls are a nuisance from the within because it's difficult to acquire an component subdivision desk together with slice of furniture to fit.
Worst Windows
The worst windows are the tiny ones. The worst balconies are the tiny ones also small-scale for yous to sit down on a chair or a depression lounger.
Food together with Famine inwards France
Goose Fat together with Garlic past times Jeanne Strang, Country recipes from South-west France, revealed the history of peasant farming inwards the area. After years of famines causing peasant farmers to lose their entire crop, their living, privation together with starvation, the province farmers learned to own got rotating crops. For the dwellers inwards flats , allotments should hold upward provided. If yous own got a slice of Blue Planet inwards mid-air, yous require a garden on top of the apartment below inwards a stepped building, an allocation inwards the gratis expanse to a greater extent than or less the base of operations of a skyscraper, or allotments within walking distance.
Singapore Fruit Trees In The Street
In Singapore I walked along a street towards a autobus halt passing mango trees which had mangoes lying on the ground. If every metropolis was lined amongst fruit trees, nosotros could alleviate starvation together with poverty. And learn children together with adults virtually the value of trees together with fruit, together with beingness a vegetarian or fruitarian.
Mango Tree
Mango fruit
Photo past times Angela Lansbury. Copyright.
I tin run into the problems. The children together with maid of the family adjacent to the mango tree accept all the fruit. The kokosnoot palm is a danger to people together with passing cars when the coconuts fall. So people must hold upward employed together with trained together with insured together with paid to alternative the coconuts earlier coconuts autumn of their ain accord.
Worst Walls
The worst walls are those correct adjacent to the pavement together with going upward sheer.
I believe buildings should hold upward stepped. For 3 reasons.
1) Safety. In a burn or disaster yous own got exclusively 1 story to descend to escape flames together with damage.
2) Flat roofs are are needed for infinity swimming pools together with helicopter landings. However, inwards the Great Britain yous require steep diagonal roofs, rarely for snow, simply oftentimes for rain.
Drive over the duet over Harrow together with Wealdstone station exterior the civic centre. Skyscrapers are built together with then unopen to the road, that the piteous niggling balconies must hold upward filled amongst fumes. The windows persuasion traffic together with take away heed noise.
Best Balconies
I run into the adverts for novel flats inwards the expanse of Harrow, all over London, together with inwards Singapore. I am real glad that people inwards flats are beingness offered balconies. Otherwise yous are inwards a prison theatre prison mobile telephone all summer, together with inwards the evenings.
With global warming, together with people used to living inwards flats inwards hot countries, or coming from houses amongst gardens, to a greater extent than people expression balconies. The youngsters together with yuppies desire to sit down on balconies for eve drinks together with meals. The piteous together with the pensioners desire their washing on the balconies (discreetly hidden past times frosted drinking glass or depression bamboo fencing).
Beautiful bridges
Bridges bedecked amongst flowers from Changi airdrome into the metropolis centre together with all over the metropolis roadways.
London - edifice of the garden bridge, non nonetheless open.
Singapore - fine art duet at Robertson Quay
Angela Lansbury, go author together with photographer