Monday 17 August 2009

DORCHESTER MEDICAL CENTRE, BREWERY SQUARE, DORSET BY CZWG

CZWG are bad architects, peddling their weird brand of postmodernism up and down the country. But this one's gone too far. It's cartoon art deco, with a stupid, cartoon art deco typeface above the door. It does nothing to dignify its sullen but very English context, just shouts as loud as it can.
Possibly CZWG is trying to provide the next logical progression in the Prince Charles pastiche
around Dorchester. That isn't real Georgian, and this isn't real, well, anything. It's probably trying to be bingo hall, Wurlitzer, popular architecture, but in fact it's three sets of curvy goalposts. It has no richness, no detail.
There are 24 CZWG buildings in this masterplan. So the town's basically fucked.

2 comments:

  1. Don't you put a giant iPod in the middle? Looks like a docking station. Poor.

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  2. That is brilliant, Cunabula - exactly right!

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