Bad British Architecture

This aggression will not stand

Thursday, 15 April 2010

THE BLADE BUILDING, READING BY SHEPPARD ROBSON

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Oh god, it's an icon! Just when you thought it was safe to reenter architecture on the grounds that noone can afford iconic office build...
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Friday, 9 April 2010

SAINSBURY'S SUPERMARKET IN CROSBY, LIVERPOOL BY HADFIELD CAWKWELL DAVIDSON

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A plaintive cry reaches Nairn's inbox. "Help us BBA , you're our only hope... well nearly. This 'ethical business' has...
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HERNE BAY REGENERATION IN KENT BY CLAGUE ARCHITECTS FOR DENNE AND COPLAN ESTATES

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This might well be a perfectly reasonable, anodyne, mixed-use masterplan. But the images are just so, so depressing. They've bothered to...
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Wednesday, 17 February 2010

VISION@SEABRAES, DUNDEE BY KEPPIE DESIGN

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This project is actually a conversion of an old jute factory in Dundee into part of a digital media park. Park, in this context, presumably ...
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Saturday, 13 February 2010

TESCO, IPSWICH BY MOUNTFORD PIGOTT

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Wow, check out this bad boy. The supercar in the foreground (how many supercar owners shop at Tesco? In Ipswich?) tells you everything about...
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MERLIN TOP PRIMARY SCHOOL, KEIGHLEY, YORKSHIRE BY RACE COTTAM ASSOCIATES

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This is the image that Race Cottam presumably paid someone to create of the hideous new special needs school they have designed in Keighley....
Wednesday, 25 November 2009

PRESTWICK ACADEMY, SOUTH AYRSHIRE BY RYDER ARCHITECTURAL

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This is just deadly, isn't it? This is an academy, the pride of Britain's schools system. The academy programme has created a genera...
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Tuesday, 10 November 2009

MOUNTBATTEN LEISURE CENTRE, PORTSMOUTH BY SAUNDERS ARCHITECTS

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Mountbatten Leisure Centre hosts many events every year, including Robot Wars. So when Saunders Architects got hold of the brief for this be...
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Thursday, 8 October 2009

PHOENIX PLACE, BASILDON, ESSEX BY DOVETAIL ARCHITECTS

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It's quite an amazing feat to make a building that has so complete a lack of texture that it looks like the windows are drawn on to the ...
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Friday, 2 October 2009

MURRAYFIELD HOUSING, EDINBURGH BY ARCHIAL FOR RUMNEY MANOR LTD

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ARCHIAL, I AM TRYING REALLY HARD NOT TO PUBLISH SO MUCH OF YOUR SHIT. I HAVE NO PARTICULAR AGENDA, I DON'T WANT TO HATE YOU ANY MORE THA...
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Ghost of Nairn
I hate how noone ever talks about how bad British architecture really is. I hate the bastards who make these buildings. So here I am, taking the piss out of them.
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