If you lived in my city

[Miss Chicken]

If you lived in Hobart what would you like to see done to the fountain pictured below. Built in 1963, it is currently broken but could be fixed iand restored. Other people want to see it bulldozed and something else put in its place. I will include a poll with this thread.

Feel free to post photos of your city's (or county's landmarks) and tell us whether you like them or not.

 

[John Picard]

Trim the trees and plant some flowers around the fountain. Founds are nice places where people can congregate.

 

[NickInABox]

If I had a million dollars, I'd buy you a house

 

[Miss Chicken]

^^^ Thank you, for the thought but I am very happy with the house I am renting.

I can't make my mind up about the fountain. I was only 5 when it was built so I don't remember it not being there. I liked playing around it as a child. However when one walks past it on a windy day you get sprayed which is OK in summer but horrid in winter. There is no other way to cross the road so it can't be avoided.

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

I think it looks too much like one of those things people in the past thought the future would look like. Something you'd find in Tomorrowland at Disneyland. Tear it down and build me something new, something efficient.

 

[Canadave]

I think it looks too much like one of those things people in the past thought the future would look like. Something you'd find in Tomorrowland at Disneyland. Tear it down and build me something new, something efficient.

More efficient? It's a fountain! How can you make something decorative more efficient?

Anyway, I say restore it. It looks kitschy right now, but in another forty years it'll be heritage. We have a bad habit of destroying our urban past before we begin to cherish it, and right now I find that extends very strongly to buildings and infrastructure from the 50s–70s. Destroy it, and we'll regret it when we no longer have it.

 

[Neutral Zone]

It's not in anyones way and it's a piece of history. It it were a shack where some famous guy /woman were born people would want to keep that, so why not the fountain?

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

Restore it. I've always had a soft spot for fountains and that's a pretty one.

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

I think it looks too much like one of those things people in the past thought the future would look like. Something you'd find in Tomorrowland at Disneyland. Tear it down and build me something new, something efficient.

More efficient? It's a fountain! How can you make something decorative more efficient?

Anyway, I say restore it. It looks kitschy right now, but in another forty years it'll be heritage. We have a bad habit of destroying our urban past before we begin to cherish it, and right now I find that extends very strongly to buildings and infrastructure from the 50s–70s. Destroy it, and we'll regret it when we no longer have it.

It was actually a subtle Trek reference. Obviously a little too subtle.

 

[Miss Chicken]

While we are talking about Hobart I might as well get people's opinion on a building that is currently nearing completion not far from the fountain.

It will house both our School of Medicine and the Menzies Research Institute.

 

[John Picard]

While we are talking about Hobart I might as well get people's opinion on a building that is currently nearing completion not far from the fountain.

It will house both our School of Medicine and the Menzies Research Institute.

Was the architect drunk, or was Tim Burton called in to design it?

 

[RoJoHen]

I like fountains, but that one is kind of ugly.

 

[Canadave]

I think it looks too much like one of those things people in the past thought the future would look like. Something you'd find in Tomorrowland at Disneyland. Tear it down and build me something new, something efficient.

More efficient? It's a fountain! How can you make something decorative more efficient?

Anyway, I say restore it. It looks kitschy right now, but in another forty years it'll be heritage. We have a bad habit of destroying our urban past before we begin to cherish it, and right now I find that extends very strongly to buildings and infrastructure from the 50s–70s. Destroy it, and we'll regret it when we no longer have it.

It was actually a subtle Trek reference. Obviously a little too subtle.

Yeah, that one went right by me. What were you thinking of?

 

[iguana_tonante]

The fountain is kinda cool, with a retro sci-fi style. Keep it and restore it. Make it shiny!

The building is both horrible and awesome at the same time. I like it.

 

[thestrangequark]

The fountain is kinda cool, with a retro sci-fi style. Keep it and restore it. Make it shiny!

The building is both horrible and awesome at the same time. I like it.

Very retro sci-fi. It'd fit in well with the landmarks of my hometown -- it looks as if it's been plucked right out of Seattle Center:

As for the new school, I'm not sure what I think of it. It's a very interesting design, but makes me a bit nauseous; it looks as if the building is wearing a thin skin that's been scarred at the front entrance by a terrible burn and has a gaping, open wound in the front left through which the balconies are jutting like bone. Ick.

 

[ShimmeringFacet]

I think it looks too much like one of those things people in the past thought the future would look like. Something you'd find in Tomorrowland at Disneyland. Tear it down and build me something new, something efficient.

That's pretty much my opinion on it. That location could have a very stunning centerpiece of art (could be another fountain, certainly), but this isn't it, I fear. Unless townsfolk are emotionally attached to it, it's not great art. BUT if you could keep it ice cold it might make a great giant popsicle holder.

Which reminds me, there is a church in SF that looks like a giant washing machine agitator.

 

[iguana_tonante]

Very retro sci-fi. It'd fit in well with the landmarks of my hometown -- it looks as if it's been plucked right out of Seattle Center:

Wow.

 

[thestrangequark]

^Never seen the Space Needle?

 

[nevermore]

I'm all for maintaining cultural heritage and city scapes and using existing structures, but there's nothing architecturally, artistically or historically significant about this example, and it's flat out ugly. Rip it down and replace it with something interesting.

 

[Rii]

It looks like a giant paper spindle. I've always had an irrational fear of those, specifically of missing the mark, severing an artery on the spindle and then bleeding to death at my desk.