The portuguese destructive methodology for classified areas....

The gardens of palacete Mendonça in Lisbon, April 2017

..and today.

The gardens are classified (protected by law), yet the trees were mutilated by the converging incompetence of authorities, owners, builders, etc. Unfortunately, not an isolated example, but more or less the "modus operandi" that slowly (but firmly) is destroying the character and authenticity of the city of Lisbon. 

Incompetence....

photo: facebook/Nuno Rodrigues

..at the National Museum of Antique Arts in Lisbon

The art of destroying a beautiful house with paint....

The summer house built in 1980 was on the outside originally painted with black color inclusive the two supporting beams (a rather important architectural detail !).

The interiors were once covered with quality pine ..floor, walls, ceiling !

Waste of money, waste of paint....and irreversible. The two white painted beams is a sacrilege.

Here a little "left-over" as a reminder of the beauty of pine

The treatment of historic Lisbon by incompetent....

..here at Rua da Lapa, 69

Bacchus & Flora....

..and the work of vandals

Gotland and Höör sandstone....

..and part of the 1996 conservation work at Stampen

Artilleristallarna....

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Magasinsgatan 19
 

The best way to preserve the feeling of time, is to keep things very simple. And this building in Göteborg is a good example of it....

The modern heritage....

Otterhällegatan, 1965, by Nils-Einar Eriksson

..and the total lack of knowledge to take care of it. The replacement of copper with steel....and teak with pine ?

Plastic surgery....

St. Lundby, 1695

The destruction of the built heritage by copper thieves....

Mars, 16, 2012

Mars, 21, 2012

The old crematorium at Västra Kyrkogården, 1966, by Sven Brolid

1) The older (green) copper was stolen and replaced with new copper plates (the new execution is a technical disaster and as nothing in common with the original parts).

2) However....shortly after the works have been concluded, the stupid copper thieves are back in business.

More about Slottsskogsvallen....

..and the mismanagement of the built heritage. Here and here....

If you want to preserve a building....

"Ragtime", at Magasinsgatan (the oldest second hand in Göteborg ?)
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..keep it simple by respecting original ideas and materials !