segunda-feira, 12 de novembro de 2018

Queen Mother Square, Poundbury, Dorchester, Dorset




“Almost 30 years since the masterplan was drawn up for this 400-acre site on the edge of Dorchester, Poundbury has finally received its town centre in the form of Queen Mother Square. If the first phase, built in the early 90s, was based on a villagey “Dorset vernacular”, this grandiloquent piazza has cranked up the dial to full Greco-Roman. A doric colonnade marches along the front of a new Waitrose on one side, facing the yellow facade of Strathmore House across the square. Strathmore, a palatial pile that could have been airlifted in from St Petersburg, contains eight luxury apartments beneath its royal-crested pediment. Next door stands the white stone heft of the Duchess of Cornwall, Poundbury’s first hotel, based on Palladio’s Convento della Carità in Venice, natch.”

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