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Wow. This is one of those projects that the local authority architect thought: "I can do this. This is my big chance. Those fancy-dan architects from Glasgow/London will finally recognise the genius of us Ayrshire natives." So the local authority didn't have a competition, didn't take any advice and went with its own, terribly untalented architecture office. The result is this embarassing lump of sandstone, stranglingly enclosing what remains of a listed monument.
The Robert Burns monument used to be a charming and slightly mad folly of a tower, which burned down in 2006. It was in sandstone, with a mad mixture of Scots baronial, neo-gothic and baroque providing a suitably romantic/absurd setting for the Scottish bard's memory. For its replacement, the designers went with slopey-roofed shit-bikeshed style, with a liberal dash of Kalzip and a touch of Hackney Marshes changing rooms (the old ones).
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Really loving the powder blue window frames, guys.
Many thanks to 'anon' for this one.
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i think this helps to illustrate your point
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I clicked "funny bad" then I saw, via the link above, the original. This is a crime. A crime against poetry, against sandstone, against Scotland. It's shit like this that will lead to defeat against Holland in the football.
ReplyDeletePhew. I saw it too and thought cr*p, so it's not just me then. Is that really a tin roof? Like factory units?
ReplyDeletePoor ol' Burns. At least his monument on Calton Hill in Embra has been beautifully repaired by Edinburgh World Heritage.
Forget the guff from those politicians keen to bask in the reflected glory, it's been done using the finest of craftspeople and looks great.
http://www.ewht.org.uk/Re-dedication-.aspx
This is reduculous. Was the former setting of the monument ever considered or was it thought that it would look better sandwitched between light industial units
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as well as being one of Building Design's current Top 5 Architecture Blogs.
Well, like, wow.
But that Burns Monument Centre - it has to be the biggest piece of sh*te ever. It's giving me nightmares, to think someone actually 'designed' it, someone else OK'd it and presumably public cash was spent on building it.
It doubles as a B and Q, right?
There you go, a hat trick
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Tom in t'Times, BD's Best and now the ultimate accolade! :-)
Looks like they're trying to conceal the monument.
ReplyDeleteJesus wept...
ReplyDeleteWhat do they plan to do next - build a municipal bus depot in the curtilage of Lincoln Cathedral?!?
Just so wrong. Wrongness taken to whole new levels of wrongitude. Wrong concept, wrong language, wrong materials, wrong detailing. Many many layers of wrong. So wrong that the word 'wrong' is now starting to look a bit funny when I type it.
ReplyDeleteI am lost for words - this has to be one of the worst things I have ever seen.
ReplyDeleteSo glad you included this great building - I love it! every best wish from Dave T
ReplyDeleteIt gets worse - the new buildings house the Registrar's service for Kilmarnock.
ReplyDeleteIf you now want a non-Kirk wedding in the area, you have to get hitched in the "spectacular conference and ceremony suite".
An excellent example of the first class work our LA own architects can achieve when they put their mind to it...hopeless! There is no better advertisement for private practice.
ReplyDeleteMan this is truly criminal(and that comes from an ayrshire man, who used to live nearby) I was aware of the scheme as the environmental company I used to work for in glasgow was approached to have a look at it, the council even then had the idea of the wed bungalow around the monument. My boss wrote to them and politely said it was not perhaps in best keeping.....and had they considered another procurement route such as a competition, needless to say we never heard back, and they went ahead with the wedding suite.....
ReplyDeletegood god, it looks like its the Auschwitz zone at Disneyland.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like a fancy stable yard
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