It was a fortress, monastery, hospital and prison at different times during its history of 500 years. Carved imprisoned in places had their names engraved in stone, each letter was clear as day that during the height of the civil war. But it was a hotel for a temporary visitor to a quiet corner of the province of Spain - as culturally different to the crowded beaches of the Costa del Sol possible, should be.
Not too long agoI had spent the night in a very different type of hotel - modern and LED was the contrast of the old structure, in almost every aspect. Only they were both busy, clean and immaculate, could not find parallels to be drawn.
The contemporary version might have had his blurb littered with words like "sharp", "challenge" and "aesthetics", but could ink and space, simply by writing to the home page of "expensive vacuum stored character". Not that thisattracted by the "edgy score could alleviate their money, but would at least have been bang-on accurate.
Of course, this is my opinion. And so is the claim that "design hotel" in general are absolutely terrible - monuments to the vanity of a metropolitan elite with multiple accounts of brain cells. With what you're saying the modishness top architects, interior designers and manufacturers, and the payment for the "I saw you coming" price tagDecor. My opinion again, of course.
Sure, some of us do not see their number, well, missing the point. We are not just as style conscious as the intellectual vanguard - more boil-in-the-bag for their haute cuisine or Michelin, more likely, simply do not see the bull and pretentious bilge, when we see it purchase.
You see, the fundamental problem of design hotel is that they often combine two of the worst aspects of late twentieth and early twenty-firstCentury culture together: the sense of modern art and magnificent architecture. And neither camp has something of the beauty of thinking all the time I can produce.
Do not misunderstand this does not mean that they are completely free of work or talent - Anthony Gormley is another in Crosby near Liverpool Street, and Sir Norman Foster's "Gherkin" (Swiss Re building) in London this test. But both are still quite impressive as a real-outs.
Thiscertainly does not use a case of "shock of the new," a plea of mitigation so often by supporters of the ultra-modern. And 'more about building design and decorating practice frighteningly child disguised as spiritual. The Middle Ages, Tudor, Jacobean and Georgian periods were separated by many years, but their styles were similarly focused on beauty and art. These two attributes have left us. Complete.
Instead, contemporary architects of "diversity funkyare increasingly ugly structures incrementally, the architect of obsolete go faster than a tub of yogurt opened in Cairo. Platitudes such as "exciting" and "demanding" more important it looks good in those days.
be to support Get them in servile companions city trendy wine bars all over the world, planning and design of major monuments and beastlier-self-imposed on the middle class - the only measure of success, how many nostrils of the public can get up.Museums, civic, shopping and art galleries (the length of the burner condescending arbiters of public funding), all designed to be aesthetically ridiculous as possible.
Of course, many architectural design hotel located at slaughter so far with the existing buildings is generally limited to the inside. We should be thankful for the small mercy, I suppose, but they are still examples of arty-farty Schuster.
Let me stressHowever, I do not do something like this boutique hotel. This is a different issue, although one or two have their own foundations modernist disappeared. In fact, I am particularly boutiques, independent bodies to remain small, have great charm, and we tend to find atmospheres and environments located in line with the historic building where they are located. In fact, I would go so far as to say that I positively adorethem.
Moreover, this is not a tirade against the concept of transforming an old building into a hotel and then change all the modern facilities for the installation of 21 passengers Century requires. I like clear, clean, elegant bathrooms as much as any other. And minibar.
No. My argument is absurd based on the simple fact that I've never been into a modern, were a thing that is different. Instead, the environment, the Spanish track off-the-beatenThe hotel was great. It was not printed abstract art or extravagant furnishings give the character, because already in every rough stone.
The old buildings are simply more appealing than the new ones. It breathes the same brightness, vitality and William Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey Ruins and praise on Thomas Gray made his English country churchyard. They complement our everyday experience than most never achieve. And that's why they seekwherever I travel.
Old is beautiful.
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