I have an aversion to demolition. While there are instances where it is clearly necessary, e.g. risk of collapse, making way for an improvement, there are others where it is not. I don't enjoy seeing buildings, monuments, whatever destroyed, if there is a sense of sanctioned vandalism. Understandable though some demolition orders are because of a flouting of building and environmental regulations, even in these instances I baulk at the destruction. It's as if there is some perverse pleasure to be derived from the sight of the wrecking ball, a triumphalism of discipline order hammering into planning disorder, sometimes the ultimate consequence of what was initially flawed ordinance or of retrospective redefinition of this failure.
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Feixina monument and the politicisation of heritage
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The “left” under all its guises and it’s childish jealousy, won’t rest until it’s pulled down so that they can get their own back. Next, or maybe before, it will be the cross in the Valle de los Caídos. Spain, politically speaking, is a basket case.