Phoneography Monday Challenge: Architecture (challenger’s choice)
New flats less than 2 years old on the left; old flats easily more than 20, 30 years old on the right.
As buildings grow taller, trees are growing shorter.
Excerpt from The Sunday Times, May 19, 2013
I have written before about the impending removal of some tall Angsana trees downstairs to make way for three new blocks of flats.
Change is inevitable, but I do like trees that stand as tall as 12 to 13 storey flats. When walking the dog, they provide welcome shade in our hot, bright climate although yes, they also harbour poop-dropping birds and life-threatening falling branches when it storms.
Wherever they stand, trees and the oxygen they produce enable life.
This is the main road junction of our neighbourhood. Look how well the trees obscure the blocks of flats behind them, and then scroll back to the first picture. How hard and stark the buildings are with the small trees. And then I think about the haze and know that I will always still prefer the big trees of life that cleanse the air around us faithfully.
Note: Copyright of the newspaper belong to SPH, I will be obliged to remove the clipping if requested.
