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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety
Ummm, well, I'm not sure a building can qualify as "silly" .... ugly as hell, yes, but silly??
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The decision to list it was silly, rather than the building - it may have been the first skyscraper in London, but it's an ugly monstrosity utterly out of keeping with it's environs.
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Oh, what you missed was ProfJulie stating that the original poster "owns" the thread (that was the word she used, I believe) that they start, and that it is disrespectful (again, her word) for anyone to post off topic or to post something "silly" in the thread.
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Oh good grief.
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So, since I "own" this thread, according to ProfJulie anyway, I decided to put the ownership "rule" to the test.
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So are most people sticking to the topic just be perverse?
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Also, I was curious to see if any countries other than the US had serious organizations (such as the Library of Congress) who had recognized things that were decidedly silly as being of cultural significance.
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I'm sure there are some art-type examples in the UK. Maybe not that silly, though...
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As for architecture, while I do think much of what came out of the 60s was in really poor taste, I'm just not sure it was "silly" ....
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OK, maybe not silly. Just downright stupid, ill thought-out and conceived by people who haven't a clue and too sodding arrogant to court the views of the people who will live in what they've designed. Not to mention poorly built and planned. Such as high rises intended for poorer families, built outside of the main city areas, with no local shops, and little to no public transport.
Um, how'd I get on this soap box?
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I would think of a silly building as maybe being something sort of whimsical .... you know, like a giant dinosaur diner or something like that.
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Something like this, maybe:
Actually, the English have a tradition of building silly buildings, if you count buildings whose main purpose is to be decorative and not much else as silly. Many country houses have a folly. And follies aren't even decorative, either... (sticking with my concrete theme, here) The Sway Concrete Tower, or Peterson's Folly (in Sway, Hampshire), built in the later 1800s:
Erm, I'll stop derailing the topic now
