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Locals have say on King Charles' Poundbury 'ghost town' estate with strict rules
13 Apr 2025 19:29 GMT
… of Cornwall charity. Luxembourg architect Léon Krier was commissioned to take … features a mix of architectural styles, including Georgian, … cute," while Architectural writer Jonathan Meades was … first time buyers. The architecture is different."
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Inside King Charles' 'ghost town' estate where residents live by strict rules
13 Apr 2025 18:13 GMT
… Duchy of Cornwall charity. Luxembourgish architect Leon Krier was tasked with the project … and grimly cute,", while architectural critic Jonathan Meades was even … many first time buyers. The architecture is different."
Poundbury village …
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King Charles' Poundbury has been called a 'ghost town' full of £400k homes and a 'feudal Disneyland' by sneering critics... but what do locals REALLY think?
13 Apr 2025 08:47 GMT
… So he commissioned Luxembourg architect Léon Krier to build a town … Poundbury still divides the architectural class.
Even the … the only criticism.
Architectural writer Jonathan Meades was … town features a mix of architectural styles, including Georgian; …
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King, prime minister, and deputy PM visit Adam Architecture’s Nansledan community in Cornwall
11 Feb 2025 11:43 GMT
… as the masterplanner and coordinating architect and Leon Krier as a collaborator on …
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Trump Will Not Make Architecture Great Again
07 Jan 2025 11:02 GMT
… ”—which essentially means neoclassical architecture rendered in contemporary building … Indeed, postmodern neoclassicism—à la Léon Krier, with his screeds against modernism … labor, maintenance, and logistics. Architecture criticism, too, flourished, with …
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Scrapped: Leon Krier’s 1,380-home south coast town ‘no long viable’
12 Jul 2024 17:16 GMT
… team.
Source:Chris Draper
Leon Krier and Ben Pentreath… Waterside to develop it.
Architects Leon Krier and Ben Pentreath were … and supposedly his favourite architect. Collaborator Ben Pentreath is … family favourite – the architect submitted plans for a …
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American architect Michael Maltzan on breathing new life into stereotypes
01 Oct 2024 13:18 GMT
… conversation following his lecture, the architect articulated his guiding design strategy … like Rem Koolhaas, Aldo Rossi, Leon Krier and Peter Eisenman, among others … context through which I understood architecture. Eventually, I became interested in …
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The huge UK town built by King Charles where thousands live and residents love
03 Apr 2025 07:58 GMT
… The King teamed up with architect Léon Krier in a bid to push … : A Personal View of Architecture two years later.
Poundbury’ … the usual knockers and architectural critics said it was … Biggs praised its community spirit, architecture and green spaces.
Speaking …
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A tower topped with a pangolin! The Oxford university building inspired by Tolkien … and the pandemic
01 Apr 2025 11:44 GMT
… building?’” says David Kohn, architect of this curious addition to … ? “I’m interested in architecture that is open to interpretation … in the often beige British architecture scene, revelling in the … of King Charles’s favourites, Léon Krier. “It looked as if it …
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Fears that multi-million pound plan to build the 'Venice of Britain' on the south coast designed by King Charles's favourite architects could fall through
04 Mar 2024 16:48 GMT
… were designed by the same architects who have worked with King … Fawley Waterside were noted architects Ben Pentreath and Leon Krier.
Mr Pentreath has …
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