tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7192227531617038362.post7190491216121580853..comments2024-03-18T13:21:38.338+00:00Comments on A Place Called Space: The Centre at nightEirenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05350820845130506117noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7192227531617038362.post-91269630039915801672013-08-04T15:37:26.089+01:002013-08-04T15:37:26.089+01:00It's such a shame that these beautiful old bui...It's such a shame that these beautiful old buildings have gone. There are only few left. As you say, so well proportioned, with so many features, and so cool in the summer too. And, like you say, the Byzantine churches look so tiny now, almost irrelevant. Such destruction - all in the name of progress. 'Greece wounds me' said Odysseas Elytis: it's as true today, as when he wrote this.Eirenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05350820845130506117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7192227531617038362.post-69386542141671710802013-08-04T12:13:52.917+01:002013-08-04T12:13:52.917+01:00I see that some of the neo-classical building is f...I see that some of the neo-classical building is for rent. I used to love the proportion of the rooms in such buildings. So many have gone from Greece, Thessaloniki had many which I loved as a child, with cool dark gardens and vast marble halls where I would wait while aunts visited, or did business, or whatever. I loved the bannisters, the few that were fitted with ancient lifts. Time somehow slowed down in one of those buildings.<br />The Byzantine churches look like ornaments now, so small and overlooked by their neighbours. On my last visit to Thessaloniki some four years ago, I had to hunt for old favourites, now even more squashed between new polikatikies.Olga Norrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10554469124546960971noreply@blogger.com