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Well, the cowboys[^] actually!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
WWBD?[ ^]
modified 10-Mar-16 9:00am.
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Wow  that is horrendous!
Being in the UK it's generally a pleasure to see restored architecture, unlike in the example you point to where the old stonework has been placed in a blancmange mould and mixed with concrete.
What were they thinking?
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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It probably looked really good to the builders.
I assume they only worked at night?
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Wait till they get to the Roman aqueduct in Segovia. I assume they'll reinforce it by cementing the blocks together 
(The aqueduct is built with unmortared bricks)
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I'm amazed Mr. O'Reilly[^] is still working.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Can't be. If he had done the job, he would have carted away all those old, crumbling, bricks and replaced them with stuff up to the latest building code. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I'm amazed he can still walk! That was a large Garden Gnome...
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Aren't we good at it? does anyone here remembers the Ecce Homo? 
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Are you suggesting the castle was restored by a little old lady? 
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No! not at all, we have plenty of little old ladies like that one... we are simply not exporting their jobs... it seems the world is not ready for that...
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The three most dangerous things (updated):
A hardware guy with a program
A software guy with a soldering iron
A Spaniard with a restoration kit
Perhaps a "crimes against art" clause needs to be added to the Spanish legal code 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Note: keep reading only if you are able to handle high stress levels and nightmares:
Imagine a Spaniard hardware guy soldering a software program with a restoration kit... I'm sure we could find one of those too...
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If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I like it. The old and new are clearly separated, and the old protected. It looks good to me.
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Looks better than a lot of the 'fixed' retaining walls around where I live (Johnstown, pa, usa). It's a very hilly/highly eroded mountainous area, so a lot of property on the uphill side of roads has knee to chest-high retaining walls to get a levelish front yard. The originals were generally mortared flagstone with decorative tops; repairs from 20-40 years ago (guestimated by the decay) were generally done by either entombing the original in concrete that's scaling off, or replacing it with concrete and rebar that's disintegrating even faster.
The latest trend has been to stack landscape pavers at a back angle; which at least has the notional virtue of being easier to fix when bad drainage and the freeze thaw cycle inevitably starts bulging them. 
No pics because we're not important enough to show up in an image search and either Google hid the streetview dude you used to be able to drag onto the map; or work's firewall has broken that feature.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I like it actually. It protects and preserves the old, while not trying to imitate it. The old is clearly old, and the new is clearly new. And together looks I think stunning.
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.. for no discernible reason, this[^] is playing in my head. Is it a message from the Universe, oh wise ones?
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Quote: Is it a message from the Universe
Yes! Don your tinfoil hat to get rid of it.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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What the hell is Shredded Cheese? I think it's just over grated.
veni bibi saltavi
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Good grief. Are you Stilton about that?
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Caerphilly does it, or this may turn into a cheese related thread.
[edit - 'tun' amended to 'turn']
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
modified 10-Mar-16 10:55am.
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I think his theory is full of holes.
/ravi
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It's cheddar that has been grated with one of these[^]
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