Tuesday, 10 November 2009

MOUNTBATTEN LEISURE CENTRE, PORTSMOUTH BY SAUNDERS ARCHITECTS

Mountbatten Leisure Centre hosts many events every year, including Robot Wars. So when Saunders Architects got hold of the brief for this beauty, they decided to make a weird, wavy alpine roof with a giant piece of pipe smashed into it, in homage. It's basically an innocent wooden shed getting fucked by a giant robotic cock.
I know that you guys love the sections that architects like Saunders draw, so here it is - the 'concept drawing'.
Brilliant. It really 'emphasises the vibrant nature of the city of Portsmouth', to my eye.
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15 comments:

  1. Nemesis 10 November 2009 at 17:43

    Oh. My. God. I would suggest a stiff drink, but...

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  2. Unknown11 November 2009 at 00:53

    love the dark rusticated brick base
    'cos tradition is important yeah?

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  3. Anonymous11 November 2009 at 15:25

    I'm finding it hard to hate this. And I'm really really trying. Yeah, it's not pretty. It's clunky. And the brick base makes it looks as if they started building a nice shed, and then someone slipped some DMT into their cuppa and started reading Naked Lunch backwards.

    And, in a way, that's OK.

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  4. Anonymous11 November 2009 at 15:30

    actually, one of the side effects of the mugs o' DMT-Typhoo is that they completely fucked up the scale of the concept drawing.

    Unless the demographic projections for Portsmouth were that people will have shrunk by approx. 50% between the completion of the original building and the new extension.

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  5. Anonymous12 November 2009 at 21:44

    Looking at that section drawing with background made me realise that if you did that in architecture school you would fail miserably!

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  6. Tarja Nurmi13 November 2009 at 21:15

    this is one of the worst kind ever. even before I read the text I thought of using the same description

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  7. Tinsie14 November 2009 at 22:30

    I've just choked on my drink. I hope you're happy now!

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  8. Unknown20 November 2009 at 00:41

    Love the CCTV mast and abandoned car in the section for proper Portsmouth realism.

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  9. Andy25 November 2009 at 09:11

    Dreadful. Even worse is that you would have to pass this to get to the School of Architecture there.

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  10. Paul Davies2 January 2010 at 18:14

    This is a really first class piece of shit.

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  11. Gary18 July 2010 at 11:21

    What is it with Portsmouth and dodgy buildings.

    Do they love them down there or something?

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  12. Unknown29 September 2010 at 15:47

    I love it!
    Its a great original modern piece of architecture, at the entrance to Portsmouth.
    The pictures dont do it justice, you have to see it!

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  13. NG5 October 2010 at 02:17

    Tehe!!

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  14. Unknown3 March 2011 at 19:12

    http://www.swimclub.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=14797

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  15. Mind Octopus21 March 2011 at 21:07

    They are doing something very similar in Hemel Hempstead: http://www.extremeconnexions.co.uk/

    Saunders again

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