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England’s new mansions:monstrous carbuncles or superb architecture?
United Kingdom Architecture News - Feb 09, 2015 - 16:32 3443 views
Serenity, Nottinghamshire (BACA):This vaguely space-age structure was described by its architects as ‘curvaceous’ and ‘exuberant’
Country piles of arguable quality are sprouting everywhere, but are they a decadent irrelevance today?
Are the rural mansions that are cropping up across the country carbuncling Britain’s green belts, or are they adorning our fields and meadows with superb architecture?
That question has jumped into focus among architects and conservationists alike after planning approval was granted for a vast country pile in Warwickshire. Designed in the grand classical manner by Robert Adam, one of the Prince of Wales’s favourite architects, it is one of many such mansions being nodded through following little-noticed changes in the law.......Continue Reading
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