They build sheds and they build them
badly.
The only problem is that they are not
supposed to be building sheds they are supposed to building new
modern structures that will last.
Engaged by a Grosvenor contractor BDP
to build a swanky showpiece structure as part of the Chavasse Park
development that opened in 2008, they went for an origami style black
building that reflects........well nothing really.....it doesn't match
anything around the Park.
Chavasse Park is the bit of green they stole
from the public to build cafes restaurants on what was a grassy park.
A bit basic but it was green lung in
the city that was used by office workers to let off steam.
It still
is now to some extent but its a lot more stressful now.
Yes they paved Paradise (Street) and
put up a parking lot.
Then you have even more foolish people applauding bad design here is a revue by Sevenstreets.com (probably a paid for advertorial as that's what Sevenstreets do)
And on top of this parking lot Studio
Three built a shrivelled up shed.
Just have a laugh at their foolish
design.
They were put up for awards for this
new snazzy bit of modernism.(sic)
Praise was lauded onto the new young up
and coming company that was about to take the world, or maybe
Liverpool by storm.
Inspired by a crumpled ciggy packet the set about
building a bar with sloping sides and roof that must be very
confusing when you come out after a half a pint of cider and think you have drunk
about 12 pints.
Its all over the place. But the critics
loved it. Critics usually know nothing of what they are criticising.
This critic does.
This is a perfect example of what
happens when the new architectural kids on the block are let loose
with their lack of experience.
They build something that looks like it
is falling over.
But worse the people responsible did
not understand even the most basic of rules.
That water needs to be
taken away from a building.
Especially one that is made of wood,
that also is in direct exposure to the sun.
This building saps up water like a
sponge because all the angles direct the rain into little pockets
that hold it in tight angled places.
Then the sun dries it out and it warps,
exposing more of the underneath and then even more water penetrates
and you get.......a mushroom farm.
Basic stuff that any simple person
would understand.
But apparently not the whizz kids of
Studio 3 didn't.
This sort of Jerry building is made
even worse by the cost of it rumoured to be a million pounds.
When the wood is removed for repair,
after seven years this was a wreck, you then can see that the frame
is constantly under attack from the elements and though the mushroom
farms look bad just imagine what its like where you cant see.
The joinery company RJC should hide
their heads in shame instead they have put it on their website.
So great was it that Architects Ellis
Williams snapped up the Studio and merged it with the firm.
Hey
there's nothing like thinking small.
http://www.ewa.co.uk/project/chavasse-park-pavilion
The architect Mushtaq Saleri should be
struck off for this. If he is in fact qualified.
Surely he couldn't
have been. Could he?
I find it hard to believe that anyone
with more than a low grade eleven CSE qualification had the intellect
to knock this up.
And to use softwood.
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