Kings Point House

Poundbury, Dorset

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architecture.knoji.com/prince-charless-vision-of-britain/

Poundbury in Dorset is an experimental new town devised by Prince Charles.

In 1987, West Dorset Council selected Duchy land for the expansion of Dorchester.

The Prince of Wales worked with the council to develop the plan. He appointed the architect, Leon Krier, to prepare the overall plan. Krier is well known in Europe and America as a champion of traditional urban design.'

In 1988, Prince Charles fronted a TV series entitled A Vision of Britain:

"I would suggest that most of us are probably very proud of our country and feel there is something rather special about Britain, about our landscape, about our villages and our towns, and about those aspects of our surroundings which provide us with what we rather loosely call character. This character, which is so evident in the local architectural styles of the buildings you see in each county, is part of an extraordinarily rich tradition which we've inherited from our forebears..."

"Some time during this century something went wrong. For various complicated reasons,
we allowed terrible damage to be inflicted on parts of this country's unique landscape and townscape. All over Britain local councils were subsidised to build gaunt and unlovely towers which rose like great tombstones from pointless and windswept open spaces....

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