Poundbury # 3: Work in progress

This shows the South West quadrant of the Poundbury site, where most of the building is happening at the moment. You may be able to make out a mixture of building styles on the horizon - there's a kind of Dutch gable in the centre, something classical on the left, blue weatherboarding on the right. Is it a hideous jumble of anachronistic styles, or is it an important attempt to create interest and diversity? I can't decide and neither can most people.

Also, is this the most restrained McDonalds on earth? The whitewashed building on the left is a McDonalds restaurant, but they've hidden the signs so that viewed from Maiden Castle (behind the photgrapher) it just looks like an old rural cottage, which is basically what it is.

Poundbury # 2

Poundbury # 2