“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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