HISTORICAL  BUILDINGS IN AN URBAN SETTING... 

This building is one of the Magnificent Seven located around the Queen's Park Savannah known as White Hall. The White Hall comes with a lot of history attached to it and so is recognised as a cultural and historical artefact in the nation and is among seven very important cultural and historic buildings located in the same location. This building along with the others represent part of Trinbagonians cultural and should be kept in good condition as it is part of our national identity and showcase our culture. This building has been restored in the past and is continued to be conserved and preserved as a historic building as there is realization of the state to protect our national heritage. These building are conserved among the ever changing and increasingly modernised  city of Port of Spain thus showing the great importance of these buildings within the cityscape. 

Although there is great modernisation of the city's architecture these buildings can be considered historical buildings according to Tim Hall. According to Aylin Orbaslic history resides within urban form and is a very important architectural design within an urban area as it promotes the cultural of that city. These buildings should be restored and conserved as part of not only our history but part of our national identity and cultural. 

These links below show some information of the Magnificent Seven  and the conservation efforts being made and the White Hall:
http://www1.american.edu/dlublin/travel/trinidad2.htm
http://citizensforconservationtt.org/main/index.php/builtherit/magnificent-seven/125-white-hall-rosenweg
http://guardian.co.tt/news/2013-02-02/more-calls-action-magnificent-7

These links below show how historic cities are preserved sustainable and how historic building or artefacts can work in the urban world:
http://www.buildingconservation.com/articles/urbanbuildings/urbanbuildings.htm
http://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications_resources/newsletters/26_2/sustainable.html



REFERENCES

Hall,Tim and Heather Barrett. Urban Geography. New York: Routledge, 2012. Print 
Orbasli, Aylin. Architectural Conservation. United Kingdom: Blackwell Science Ltd, 2008. Print