But then I don’t know as much about building landmark structures that maintain the correct conservation conditions inside for the protection of priceless heritage artefacts, despite being on a windswept airfield, as everyone else seems to. I’m just glad it’s being built.
Isn’t that a bit at odds with your normal viewpoint about aircraft that are not airworthy being dead? In which case would you rather have seen said £23 million being used for airworthy restorations?
I know little of what ‘Airspace’ is to be. I saw the construction work at Legends and was not overly impressed as it appears to me to be just another big shed. The inside of the structure and the use of the covered space it provides is what will determine whether or not ‘Airspace’ is a success. Bearing that in mind I will reserve judgement.
But the concept of the architecture used in the buildings currently being built to house our heritage is, to me a bit strange. I don’t look at the Land Warfare Hall, just its contents, which I find interesting and imaginative. I fail totally to see what were the ideas behind IWM North, the AAM I like. I do not consider it to be an eyesore at all, although it doesn’t fit in with the airfield architecture.
Cosford I am concerned about. Housing a collection which is to educate the public about the Cold War and preserve airframes and artefacts from that era in a space age building which, to me, adds nothing to the era which it is being built to house, seems a very strange use of the money required. I think it is the case that more and more emphasis is placed on the ‘look’ of the buildings which house our National treasures than the treasures themselves.
Regards,
kev35
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