Some time ago I found an old wiro notebook in a drawer. A scruffy wiro bound notebook with a photo of 2 men in a kayak with a bear on the front cover. In that notebook I found terrible sketches drawn in pencil made while travelling in 1991. One sketch leapt out at me. It was a rough pencil sketch of Mt Ararat from a backpacking trip to eastern Turkey. The sketch really surprised me – it was a very basic pencil sketch, drawn using a .5mm technical pencil on a cheap notepad. The sketch is just black and white… To my surprise the sounds and smells of the day came flooding back. Meeting some Kurdish goat herders and their flock near the base of Mt Ararat, about 10km from the Iranian border on a bright sunny but cool, alpine day. Along with memories of driving across the mountain steppe in an old Renault 19 and the smells of chai and coffee in a Doğubayazıt pasta solunu. It all came back come flooding back! Why did it evoke such vivid memories? I’m not really sure to be honest. Maybe t...
Spotted this old villa being cut up for removal on the way home tonight.
Building by building our area's character is being moved away or demolished. This is the 3rd character building within a 2 km radius to be removed or demolished this year.
The building is making way for a multi storey tilt-slab construction. The owner was quoted as saying about the old house "When you see it hard up against the adjoining building, I don't think it has any architectural merit," - kind of ironic when you discover that he is responsible for the monstrosity next door.
Building by building our area's character is being moved away or demolished. This is the 3rd character building within a 2 km radius to be removed or demolished this year.
The building is making way for a multi storey tilt-slab construction. The owner was quoted as saying about the old house "When you see it hard up against the adjoining building, I don't think it has any architectural merit," - kind of ironic when you discover that he is responsible for the monstrosity next door.
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