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Price will close The Mall in London for an eco motor show in September

Prince Charles is planning to shut off The Mall in London for a car show of environmentally friendly vehicles.

The Prince of Wales’s Start festival will run from 5-15 September, celebrating sustainable lifestyles and including “everything from buildings and gardens to food”, according to Roger Saul, the man in charge of the motoring exhibits.

The event will kick off with a ‘race’ from Glasgow to London between the Prince’s train (run on recycled chip fat) and a fleet of clean cars.

Entry to the Start festival is £15, but the car display in The Mall on 12 September is free.

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il sole 22 July 2010

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Straight Six Man wrote:
Death to modernism! Long live classical elegance, Gothic splendour
er, hello, in their day these were just as shocking as modern architecture is now
Straight Six Man wrote:
Arts & Crafts inventiveness
er, how can you celebrate one thing and berate the exact same forces which drive modern inventiveness??? so i guess the gherkin in london is a monsterous carbunkle in your eyes is it? or how about the milau viaduct in the south of france??? i'm afraid charles is a clueless old guffer who should just remember that the english civil war put pay to the interference of the crown in the state's activities!! he should just shut up and go back to his veggie plot.

supermanuel 21 July 2010

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Los Angeles wrote:
It's when modernism is plonked down between an existing terrace of buildings that it jars because it destroys the uniformity; sandwiched, its varying levels and materials completely alien to the buildings on either side.

I agree. But that is reason to berate the planning system rather than insisting that all modern or contemporary architecture is rubbish.

Gehry- there's an ego that warranted freedom of expression.

I think we're in the wrong forum LA......

supermanuel 21 July 2010

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Los Angeles wrote:
Incidentally, the phrase, "in my opinion," IMO, or IMHO, must be the most superfluous comment posted on websites.

I'm aware of that LA-unfortunately, not all contributors are as enlightened as you about the difference between subjectivity and objectivity. It is placed in my signature in the hope that the truly stupid might someday be inspired to consider that their opinion is not necessarily fact.

Los Angeles wrote:
Wonderful, inspired work. Buildings that make one feel good to be alive.

I'm going to take that on face value and assume that you're not taking the P155 LA. I am really impressed with the New Dance & Music Centre in The Hague. Have you seen it? It's like sheets of paper floating down to form a stack. Quite brilliant and utterly contextual.

Heaven forbid.