tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post6770489923770018029..comments2024-03-25T15:10:13.792+00:00Comments on English Buildings: Aylesbury, BuckinghamshirePhilip Wilkinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-70356225963287445082018-02-06T18:52:57.792+00:002018-02-06T18:52:57.792+00:00I used to live in Aylesbury and this house made me...I used to live in Aylesbury and this house made me smile - it's like someone pulled away the curtain and revealed the sleight of hand. It even has a metal bracket from the roof apex propping up the facade!Tom Calvernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-84131524047339480202012-05-22T22:10:07.102+01:002012-05-22T22:10:07.102+01:00Worm: Recent architects seem mostly only able to d...Worm: Recent architects seem mostly only able to do false fronts "ironically" - I'm thinking of postmodernism's jokey classical allusions. Perhaps it's time they took appearances more seriously...Philip Wilkinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-33509627771501653972012-05-22T22:07:44.378+01:002012-05-22T22:07:44.378+01:00George: Yes, there are some good false fronts in N...George: Yes, there are some good false fronts in North America, though I know them from film and television, mostly.Philip Wilkinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-6125380736211030582012-05-22T10:30:25.156+01:002012-05-22T10:30:25.156+01:00There should be more 'quality' false front...There should be more 'quality' false fronts made these dayswormhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02802335627720182532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-62054815667456118922012-05-22T00:12:47.705+01:002012-05-22T00:12:47.705+01:00False fronts were popular in the American west. I ...False fronts were popular in the American west. I find in a novel I've been reading, Wright Morris's <i>The Home Place</i><br /><br />"There's too much sky out here, for one thing, too much horizontal, too many lines without stops, so that the exclamation, the perpendicular, had to come. Anyone who was born and raised on the plains knows that the high false front on the Feed Store and white water tower, are not a question of vanity."<br /><br />That's about Nebraska, but the mountain towns in Colorado had their share of false fronts. (And it reminds me that many years ago, on a Greyhound bus across the plains, I had to explain about water towers to an Englishman of my age.)Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14819154529261482038noreply@blogger.com