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.

15 comments:

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

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

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

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

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

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  10. This is a really first class piece of shit.

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  11. What is it with Portsmouth and dodgy buildings.

    Do they love them down there or something?

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

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

    Saunders again

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