TrustNews Sep 21
Chairman's Jottings
View of Cathedral
TrustNews
Welcome to the new look TrustNews.
John Stanning, who has taken responsibility for masterminding TrustNews for several years, has decided to retire for a much needed rest from organising the content and meeting deadlines, to chasing after volunteers who have promised articles but failed to meet deadlines: not always a simple task!
Thank you, John, for doing such an excellent job - it has been very much appreciated.
The baton has now been handed over to our secretary Tessa Robertson, who has taken on the production of TrustNews with the help of a small group of us in gathering interesting articles and making suggestions for content. Any ideas for articles would be gratefully received. You can email your suggestions to Tessa at editor@cityofwinchestertrust.co.uk.
2021 AGM - Tuesday 5 October
We are very pleased that this year's AGM will be held ‘in person’ at St Peter's Pastoral Centre, Jewry Street. I look forward to welcoming you details are available.
Thoughts on place making and architectural style
Since architecture fanned out to embrace a wider public, there has always been a schism between styles. More recently this schism has revolved around ‘classical’ versus ‘modern’. I personally don't think it matters. What does matter are other ingredients before considering the architectural style, for example hard/soft landscape spaces, scale, roads, footpaths, car parking etc. In other words, how one moves around and makes the experience a pleasure. Buildings add a three- dimensional backcloth, helping to define and enhance the layout. Buildings should guide the eye, provide unexpected but pleasant surprises, highlights etc, all adding to the enjoyment and experience of walking about an area. Whether buildings are one style or another should not matter as long as they provide a convincing, well-considered, satisfying result.
However, there is today a major problem to upset the ‘delight’ factor which seems to permeate everywhere, and that is the car. Huge efforts are needed to cater for cars in a satisfactory way. It is difficult to find a good solution to this conundrum.
Keith Leaman