No Ugly Buildings Allowed

A. Unabashed Pacifist:

Peace is the umbrella that shields me from the tension around me.

B. Unabashed Christian:

Holy One,

My life flows on in calming scenes,
apart from life’s lamentations.
Through days of joy and nights of peace,
my trust in you knows no limitations.
Amen

C. Un-quoting Jesus:

“I’m entering the synagogue talent show as a ventriloquist, since so many people claim to have heard my voice.”

[Synagogue or psych ward, He never said it.]

D. Blog: Ugly Buildings

Living in a mountainous area, I hate to see structures that distract from the landscape. In a place of such grandeur and beauty, what do architects and builders think they’re doing to design and construct ugliness?

A brick big-box store with a huge sign trying to dominate an otherwise lovely art-deco downtown – what’s up with that? A monstrosity of a house on a hillside, built for its owners’ view but destroying the view for others because the trees were removed to make room for the house. A low commercial property doesn’t block the view of the mountains, but its construction on the cheap makes me ask again: didn’t these people know it would deface the natural environment?

There oughta be a law – or a commandment. “Thou shalt not erect buildings that are stains on Earth’s/God’s tapestry.”