Prince Charles’ experimental city
Mock Georgian is the lamest&#x2F;ugliest thing going and it&#x27;s already all over the UK (like every town or suburb). Sure original Georgian architecture is beautiful in many ways. However, mock versions are a blight because people cannot afford to use the correct materials and resort to stylistic similarity with garish bricks and pvc windows. Where is the vision in the above for alternative materials or cheaper reuse of existing ones that are also beautiful etc? There&#x27;s also a  little mock Grecian-Dutch-Turkmeni (see those horrific cylinders on the big building or the car park entrance that looks like a downtown Ashgabat-in-Dorset) which seems utterly bizzare and surreal.<p>Irritating when you consider the value, tradition, and heritage of the arts and crafts movement and people like Edwin Luytens that is being destroyed here. Its just way cooler too:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Munstead_Wood" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Munstead_Wood</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Castle_Drogo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Castle_Drogo</a><p>and same goes for the Barbican which follows similar style but with more mixed results in terms of fitting in with the surroundings:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Barbican_Estate" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Barbican_Estate</a><p>Southbank does look like a nuclear site and&#x2F;or antarctic base (some of these are dope imo). But it is so brilliant to walk around and the diversity of the people that use the skatepark there or hangout says it all tbh. Poundbury seems like a fake past, cosplay village, where &quot;no ball games&quot; signs and death by sandwich committees would make life miserable for anyone with a whiff of interest in contemporary culture.