At someone's lovely 1970s apartment. It's filled with detailed design from the decade, and it's a joy. Pioneering architecture of a decade that - the further we move away - needs protecting more, not less.
For example, it has a small fire escape from the back of the bathroom to avoid the front door should a fire impede main access. How carefully thought-out is that? It's amazing!
But then I hear power tools in the stairwells, boots on steps, and voices of purpose. Here it is, this super crawl escape, being blocked up. It's the law. Nothing to do with us. Present-day fire regulations say this little curiosity, reflecting the fears and strategies of a different age, must not exist.
These lovely apartments are not likely to merit the courts for the Twentieth Century Society. And there's no protest stump on which to chain myself. It's just another ordinary building.
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