Left to it's destiny

Photo by Emelie Nielson, Norway 2009

Character

It happens quite often that people point at building we pass, asking what my opinion is of it?

The problem is that many times I have no opinion, they don't move me. Like a person without any feature of personality to remember they remain anonymous. Sometimes they can be vulgar and unattractive to me, but many streetscapes are just full of the bland.

But then, there are buildings that tell me something about themselves. I am mysterious, or young and nifty or ancient and wise. Buildings are of course more than the surface that meets the eye, skin and bones and structure as well as spatial personality.

Something that annoys me is too much steel, the kind you keep seeing in many new-built corporate buildings. 
I think that a building with excessive steel bracing is like a beautiful girl with big braces smiling.
Personality - pleasant or unpleasant, interest me a great deal.

The Fuller Building, or 'the Flatiron building' is grandpa-like to me, or more like a dandy-like grandpa when he was young and slender and handsome.

'Flatiron building' 1902 by Architect Daniel Burnham
Original photo credits to nycvintageimages.com