tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28651976363618994.post5517197491139663200..comments2024-03-29T07:02:35.659-04:00Comments on architect design™: Doris Duke Gardens at Duke FarmArchitectDesign™http://www.blogger.com/profile/01481754380363676771noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28651976363618994.post-14414999603432627952021-01-15T13:29:00.982-05:002021-01-15T13:29:00.982-05:00I'm 12 years late to this discussion, though r...<br />I'm 12 years late to this discussion, though remember it well--and am reminded of it, with irritation, every time I go to send images of this orangerie to friends / colleagues. I find it highly regrettable that the board of directors took this action and agree with so many of the points covered in the comments before mine. Nothing would be left of the other great gardens of Europe and North America if everyone took the same tact, because clearly, Versailles, for example, is not exactly eco-friendly, for starters. In America we seem to approach everything with such puritanical zeal: it's all or nothing. That the board of directors could not find it in themselves to work around Doris Duke's stunning work of art--truly, there was nothing like it anywhere else in the world (i.e. the night garden), is woeful. There was another way and they let their dogmatic ideals eclipse their reason and sense of duty to Doris Duke's legacy, itself.FELIX ETIENNE-EDOUARD PFEIFLEnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28651976363618994.post-59204936769856853132008-05-30T08:45:00.000-04:002008-05-30T08:45:00.000-04:00I don't neccesarily disagree with you at all, Nosh...I don't neccesarily disagree with you at all, Nosha. I just was wondering what the other side of the story was - every story has 2 sidesArchitectDesign™https://www.blogger.com/profile/01481754380363676771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28651976363618994.post-56998720241155512082008-05-30T07:18:00.000-04:002008-05-30T07:18:00.000-04:00I think a sore point with these display gardens st...I think a sore point with these display gardens stems from the highly documented fact that they were Doris Duke's personal artistic effort, created partially in memory of her father. By all accounts she treasured them highly. It was her work of art left to us all. To destroy them, no matter what other good the trustees could do, does seem like very personal attack on the Doris Duke legacy.noshahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14146114723484938665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28651976363618994.post-37262320278094578682008-05-23T00:51:00.000-04:002008-05-23T00:51:00.000-04:00Wouldnt having Solar PVCs and Solar water heater l...Wouldnt having Solar PVCs and Solar water heater lessen the costs? Maybe its because of the size. Or ask Corporations co-sponsor or rent out certain areas for banquets, corporate workshops and the like? Did the board really exhaust all the options? Doris Duke was an very interesting woman to read about. Its a shame about the Duke Garden. <BR/><BR/>Smith College has a large greenhouse and allows vistors in its annual bulb show. So many colors and scents. At end of each winter, I get thinking about Smith's bulb show.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11383111452421425777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28651976363618994.post-6350223955110647072008-05-23T00:27:00.000-04:002008-05-23T00:27:00.000-04:00I tend to be the one that would like to put a prot...I tend to be the one that would like to put a protective bubble over something of historical importance and of incredible beauty. I have seen some local homes of historical quality, being completly ruined by amatures with a bigger desire to have more space that to preserve the astetic beauty of the structure. I agree that there is a fine line between changing for the sake of change, and turning your backs the past, and changing with respect to its past.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com