Stoke City Council Customer service centres Hanley Stoke on Trent Staffordshire One Smithfield Leonards Coates Way ST2 4FA
by RHWL Architects
Promised a “dynamic new city centre business and leisure destination designed for people and the modern occupier”, poor old Stoke ended up with a miserable box dressed in a cheap harlequin costume, a so-bad-it-might-almost-be-fashionable fusion of 80s classics Blockbusters and Connect 4. Or was it inspired by the pattern on the architect’s homepage?
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2016/sep/02/carbuncle-cup-2016-gong-for-uks-ugliest-building-up-for-grabs
I actually liked it it brightens up what looks like a miserable place full of derelict and
neglected buildings.