Saturday 12 April 2008

SALTAIRE

Today a trip to Saltaire where, I met my wife when we were at school, where my dad was a head designer, where Sir Titus Salt built a model town for his workers.
Now regenerated Through the vision of another man: Jonathan silver and his Friend David Hockney. It's already looking like this, unlike Sir Titus vision is going to achieve something he never did: ssustainability.
The story that is rarely told of Saltaire is that within 50 years of being built it was in Financial trouble.
Regeneration is great but sustainability who knows how to pull that one off... clearly Jonathan Silver, but unfortunately he died a few years ago leaving us to wonder and learn from what he left.

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