OLD VERSUS NEW

New Exterior Additions to Historic Buildings: Preservation Concerns

    

Old and new building in a cities, which one is most important ? This is a question. Nowadays human being love to have a new things, no matters is furniture, appliances, electronics and etc. People will also think that in our city we have a modern skyscrapers which is in high technology why don’t we demolish the old buildings and have a new one. To me, this is all about balance, a city with modern skyscrapers and without a historic building would surely lose its aesthetic charm.

        In my point of views , old building such like a part of a story line to tell us what is the lifestyle ,style of building design and show the history behind a city during ancient time and new building is our future. New building and historic buildings design are totally different. Compare to historic building, building nowadays are in flat and always used to competition in building height such like Taipei 101, Jin Mao tower, International commerce centre and etc. All the things in design are big and most of the material used are glass and metal. Now designers are lack playing a building design with a sculpture ,column design, dome and also the architectural style such like renaissance, victorian ,art deco and etc. This is the one of the reason why I do not agreed to demolished the historic buildings.

        When u travel to place there have a lots of skyscraper , our first impression of the building outcome is wow ! unbelievable , how come the building can build so high and huge. But will you spent a lot of time to stay at there to take a look ? To me I think no , because it’s just interesting in building height or show off with the technology. Besides that if u visit the King;s house which is a gothic style building , I think majority of us will spent more time to capture the building . Due to the King’ house have a lots of decorative design such like column, window ,roof and even the wall also have design. The design of this building is small in pieces , very detail and attractive .People will feel more curious on this kind of building.

        The article I choose to support my point of view is “New Exterior Additions to Historic Buildings: Preservation Concerns” written by kay D.weeks .Based on this article he talks about how to combine the historic building with a new exterior addition without damage or destroy the original building’s character and significant and new addition must be ‘ compatible with the size, scale, color, material, and character’’ of the building. Why do we combine old and new building together ? Because as a designer we must be responsible and can’t always cut off the forest to have a new land. Combine building together is the best solution to me ,we can keep a historic building and have a new building then. One of the example is Broadcasting House. This building have a new design joining the two original buildings which is in art deco style. Due to the combination we can protect the historical significance by making a visual distinction between old and new. We can clearly see the differences between the old and new . The old building design a sculpture at front door and squarish window and block as a finishes. Beside that the new building is play with technology which is the lighting and using glass for whole building.

        As a conclusion, I very agreed with the combination of new and old buildings. We can experiencing different kind of design in one building at the same time .