BUILDINGS IN THE LANDSCAPE

Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - http://www.simpopdf.com LANDMARK HOUSES Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - http://www.simpopdf.com 2 LOWER MILL ESTATE Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - http://www.simpopdf.com LANDMARK HOUSES CONTENTS Buildings in the landscape 4 - 5 The vision 6 - 7 The projects 8 - 23 Alsop + Partners 8 - 9 Alison Brooks Architects 10 - 11 Featherstone Associates 12 - 13 Piers Gough, CZWG Architects 14 - 15 Eva Jiricna Architects 16 - 17 Roger Sherman Architecture 18 - 19 Sutherland Hussey Architects 20 - 21 Richard Reid and Associates 22 - 23 Landmark House Landscape 24 - 25 Interiors 26 - 27 Biographies 28 - 31 Wildlife at the Lower Mill Estate 32 - 33 Twenty two of the World’s best architects working alongside one another to design forty six individual Landmark homes on my Estate in Gloucestershire is not only unique but an honour for me and fulfils a lifelong ambition to wake up the architecture of this country and create a development in the Cotswolds countryside that stands alone on a global scale for its design and ecological excellence. The way that the designers have responded to the environment is, in my opinion, pure creative genius. It is so inspirational to see and work alongside such talent. Every one of the designs will be such cool spaces to live in. People can talk about this now, and that is great, but it is what they say in two or three hundred years that will be the real test. Jeremy Paxton, sponsor of Landmark Houses and owner of Lower Mill Estate LOWER MILL ESTATE 3 Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - http://www.simpopdf.com 4 LOWER MILL ESTATE Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - http://www.simpopdf.com BUILDINGS IN THE LANDSCAPE These new houses have been sensitively integrated into the landscape.They are uncompromisingly modern, but respectful too. When I saw the plans, my immediate impression was.... unbelievable. I thought this can’t be The Cotswolds. It must be California or Switzerland or anywhere else on the globe where good, modern architecture seems to happen naturally. But I was wrong. It is believable and it’s really happening in Gloucestershire. Masterpiece architecture is exciting enough wherever it is built, but there’s something extraordinary here.We are in the deeply conservative English countryside. For too long the culture of the country has been sentimental and backward-looking: quite literally afraid to change. But culture is about growth and evolution.These new houses have been sensitively integrated into the landscape.They are uncompromisingly modern, but respectful too. Happily, they prove the countryside is alive: they are not yesterday’s tradition, but tomorrow’s. It’s significant that not too far from Lower Mill is Poundbury, Prince Charles’ own experiment in building an ideal community. The Prince’s sentiments are admirable, but the architecture is lazy and intellectually sentimental.Why does Prince Charles want eighteenth century architecture, but not eighteenth century sewers? There is a house in Poundbury where a central heating flue exits through a gargoyle! Instead of Poundbury’s lifeless, artless pastiche, Landmark Houses offer vitality, variety and ingenuity.They show more intelligent respect for their environment than a bad copy of a jobbing Georgian builder’s original. Of course, we want to keep the best of the countryside. But never forget: if you want things to stay the same, they are going to have to change. ... - tailieumienphi.vn