On The Hill

I remain enraged today after last nights English Heritage documentary on Park Hill. Those of you who know me know exactly what Park Hill and Sheffield means to me, and i feel that the documentary became just another way of slagging the complex off, and preserving the publics fear of the credit crunch by producing another doom and gloom programme that was full of twanging low music that is always used in depressing 'real' docu-programmes which basically sounds like someone twanging an out of tune guitar in a dirty underpass.

I despair at the politics behind the project, i think the lib dems should be strung up and shot. Yes the English Heritage people did annoy me as they seemed unbelievably snobbish and i do think that Urban Splash are doing their best but what annoys me is the constant questioning of the listing status. Its already been done so stop it, its like saying 'we shouldnt really have gone to war' but its a bit late for it once ten thousand people have been shot.

I still think that this project will be amazing if it gets finished, but i cant get rid of this impression that the stigma attatched to Park Hill has almost become its reason for bieng here, ooh lets have something controversial. its not controversial when it comes down to a question of logic, preservation was the logical thing to do in my opinion.

How many times do people have to be told for fucks sake! The concrete isnt grey!!!!! Its nowhere near grey, its somewhere imbetween beige and honey coloured. The idea behind this building is that the concrete is exposed! Jesus they really should have got someone in that knows about brutalism and that admires it not these annoying fucking people with a rod up their arse that think a crumbling church (which we have billions of in this country) is a supreme example of beauty. Very few people in the documentary had any idea about brutalism if any, except for the architects who went to Marseille to visit the original inspiration for Park Hill; Le Corbusier's Unite d'habilitation which itself has just been restored. They even spoke to the architect who refurbished it, he told them about the ways in which it must be restored, now there was a man who knew the ideas behind brutalism and Le corbusier.

Ill take a deep breath and calm down, but if those lib dem bastards at Sheffield City Council do anything else to piss me off like continue to run Park Hill into the ground or to destroy the Sevenstone redevelopment then you will be sure to hear about it.

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