Death of a Building

Usually we witness the birth of buidings, or at the very least a slow and steady decline to death.
Here a photographer, Christoph Gielen,  discusses witnessing a sudden death (ie blowup demolition) of a failed housing complex.

"What compels me most in the resulting images is the sudden absence of the Whitfield tower and the way the cloud’s shape describes an impact of a large mass hitting the earth. The idea that something so large, so present in the landscape could disappear almost instantly is more interesting to me than documenting its fall frame by frame. I prefer to let the image of the apparently vanished structure conjure up speculation over its former shape, its history and the reasons for its demolition."
more at the NYT

Hatred brings building down

a barely 10 year old building built on a waterfront in a seaside community has been slated for demolition after a poll rated it as Englands most hated building.

its interesting because i've been researching how listen to communities in forming values for heritage purposes. 

all the same i would hate to be that architect...

"A seaside building that won a poll as the most hated in England is to be bought by a local authority and razed.
Bournemouth borough council is to spend around £7.5m to rid the Dorset resort of the Waterfront leisure complex. Featuring dark glass and a wavy roof designed to represent the sea, the development, also known as the Imax building, caused an outcry when it was opened in 1998 owing to both its looks and the fact that it blocked a beloved view across the water to the Purbeck Hills."
article continued here