Anne-apolis

  Some time back, I did a blog on door handles , specifically looking at the problem of replacing them in a heritage building. Today I take a step back to look at the door itself. I am writing this blog from my office in a building completed in 1942, at the time the last word in modernism. Every aspect of the design has been carefully considered, with even the precast concrete panels on the exterior scaled to line up with the steel bars in the windows. While most of the renovations over the years have either been very sensitive to the original design, or fortuitously simple, in character with the building, the front doors were not so lucky - clearly somebody thought that an "old" building needed "old looking" doors! The more recent front door to a modernist building No doubt, the inspiration for this choice of a panelled door with decorative mouldings came from the building next door, which was built in 1922 and has panelled doors throughout - to the exterior doors ...