Sunday, October 15, 2017

Stoke City Council Customer service centres Hanley Stoke on Trent Staffordshire One Smithfield Leonards Coates Way ST2 4FA by RHWL Architects

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.