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You can not legislate taste. Taste is in the eye of the beholder. Also, what's beautiful changes over time. Quite quickly. When the pyramid in the Louvre was built only 20-25 years ago, people were up in arms about the destruction of the historical view of the Louvre. By now, it's just one of the iconic sights of Paris.

The same was true of the Eiffel Tower when it first was built and the George Pompidou Center (which I personally find an eyesore).

Personally, I find the 2nd pop-up example shown in the post to be just fine--it's the buildings around it that I find out of date and atrocious looking. Sometimes just because something is "old" doesn't make it better.

I agree with Jasper and others who advocate making the process LESS onerous and not MORE.

As far as I'm concerned, other than The Mall area, Georgetown, parts of Capitol Hill and Old Town...the rest of the city should be fair game.

If you own the property and are within existing zoning laws/codes, then go for it. Who knows? You may start a trend and transform the entire neighborhood!

Architecture, while it certainly deals with function as well as form, is after all, a visual art. It's very difficult to start placing judgement on the work without finding folks on both sides.

by LuvDusty on May 31, 2012 1:09 pm • link • report

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