{"id":321721,"date":"2025-11-30T04:23:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T04:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/321721\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T04:23:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T04:23:24","slug":"a-handsome-compact-efficient-building-says-commenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/321721\/","title":{"rendered":"“A handsome, compact, efficient building” says commenter"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing a school in Canterbury completed by Walters & Cohen<\/a> with a material palette of flint<\/a>, oak and limestone. <\/p>\n

Located alongside an entrance to Canterbury’s cathedral precincts, The Rausing Science Centre was designed to balance a traditional material palette with a “crisp and contemporary” approach.<\/p>\n

\"Educational<\/a>Walters & Cohen clads Canterbury school building with snapped flint<\/p>\n

“What a thoughtful and pleasant design”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Readers were impressed.”Beautiful execution and attention to detail \u2013 magnificent!” wrote Jerry Dickman-Wilkes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“What a thoughtful and pleasant design,” agreed The Truth<\/a>. They went on to say that “this sort of respect for scale, context and materiality is not often seen in contemporary additions.”<\/p>\n

“Fancy that \u2013 a handsome, compact, efficient building, constructed of quality materials, with no arbitrary angles”, commented Karl<\/a>. Also a fan of the design was Souji<\/a>, calling it “very nice, a step in the right direction”.<\/p>\n

One reader who wasn’t so sure was Chris<\/a>, who interjected “I dig the materiality, but it looks like a village building shoehorned into an academic campus \u2013 odd.”<\/p>\n

What do you make of it? Join the discussion \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Buenos<\/a>Adamo Faiden creates Buenos Aires skyscraper as a “geographical feature”<\/p>\n

“Back to the essentials! Beautiful and simple details”<\/p>\n

Also providing plenty of fodder for the comments section this week was a skyscraper with a green-pigmented concrete facade and a series of cantilevers<\/a>, completed by local studio Adamo Faiden in Buenos Aires<\/a>, Argentina.<\/p>\n

Johan<\/a> thought the building was “quite elegant and a lovely shade of green” and that it “works very nicely with the historic warehouses.”<\/p>\n

“Back to the essentials! Beautiful and simple details,” praised Matheus Seco<\/a>, adding “what a superb building!”<\/p>\n

But not all commenters were quite so smitten, with Idracula<\/a>\u00a0deciding\u00a0“from a distance, graphically interesting…up close, pretty banal.”<\/p>\n

Also unconvinced, Souji<\/a> called it “oppressive and inelegant”, concluding “meh, more of the same mediocre stuff we are used to.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, commenter John-in-Melbourne<\/a> was “not sure it fits in with the landscape around it”.<\/p>\n

Have you had your say? Join the discussion \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Ford<\/a>Sn\u00f8hetta showcases “transformative” Ford headquarters building in Michigan<\/p>\n

“Trying to please everyone and exciting no one”<\/p>\n

Readers were largely unimpressed by Sn\u00f8hetta’s headquarters for automotive company Ford in Michigan<\/a>, which features an engineering-focused central building.<\/p>\n

“Clean! Bright! Umm and sterile,” commented\u00a0Rickboxer<\/a>. “How about even a dab of colour somewhere?” they asked.<\/p>\n

On the same page was Alfred Hitchcock<\/a>, arguing “it’s nicely polished, but it’s like Ford’s cars \u2013 trying to please everyone and exciting no one.” They branded it “middle of the road stuff”.<\/p>\n

“A mess and a bore”, contributed Souji<\/a>, while JZ<\/a> thought “it feels massively generic”.<\/p>\n

Do you agree? Join the discussion \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n

Comments update<\/p>\n

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