It looks lovely.

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councillors and planners in shrewsbury are soft they always roll over for big business and let them get away with murder, meanwhile in this so called conservation zone i wouldnt be able to put up a satellite dish, look at the thing, its ghastly modern junk, just like the theatre and the council offices , this town has gone to the dogs, the one thing going for it is a river corridor and lovely old buildings and the council is runing both with modern developments on the river side

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Come on Shrewsbury Town Residents Association get your weight behind getting this prison like structure – for that’s all it is – from being built. The architect who designed it could not have been any older than nine or ten and in primary school. How on earth did the council planning authority pass such an obnoxious looking building? All it is is a box with windows in it – no design sense at all!

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How can we build anything which isn’t a modern design. The older buildings of Shrewsbury are beautiful and are now cherished but lets embrace progress too. Architecture is about experimentation and practicality.

I despair for the poster who suggested that a walk from Raven Meadows or Frankwell car park would be a ‘hike’. Insisting on another car park where large car parks are barely 500 yards either side is a preposterous idea.

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I recognise that picture…Half-Life 2: Episode 1 isn’t it ? Watch out for the head-crabs on the third floor and stock up because there’s a Strider when you get into the courtyard.

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[How can we build anything which isn’t a modern design. The older buildings of Shrewsbury are beautiful and are now cherished but lets embrace progress too. Architecture is about experimentation and practicality.]

Absolutely hit the nail on the head there Peter!

We can and do build pretend older style buildings in Shrewsbury with modern materials but then so does most of the country which makes everywhere full of mundane, mediocre, safe, bland houses. The chimneys and dormers, fascias, gutters, down pipes, expansion gaps and windows are all plastic. So long as the impression is that of Victorian then no one will question whether they should be built.

These houses are not especially good to live in either. Ceilings are too low, no windows in bathrooms, little precedence given to their livability and how the rooms flow and spaces work.

Building older styles with a higher quality can be done at a much higher cost but also at a cost of creating buildings that work for the way we live today.
Modern materials are not necessarily bad and offer a lot of gains in terms of insulation and energy efficiency and opportunity to design differently. What is bad in my view is using these materials in a deceptive way.

We have modern buildings in Shrewsbury that are fantastic and sit beautifully against their old neighbours. Mansers and Nexus on Rousehill are two examples.
We also have terrible buildings like the back of the shopping centres and dare I say it the new theatre.
Thanks for the CABE link attica. You will see that they did not support the theatre at all at the design stage.

I will be interested to see more contextural elevations of the proposed hotel, perhaps even a model will be available.
I will certainly not have a knee jerk reaction because it has not been made to look like something Charles Dickens would have stayed in!

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This is a truly ugly building! The new theatre is lovely and does add something modern yet beautiful to the lovely town of Shrewsbury but this hotel will definitely detract. It does look like a prison but not quite as attractive……and Premier!!! Perlees!

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I think it really suits the town, goes well with the quaint medieval shopping centre and your delightful Tudor bus station.
Histiric town my armpit…..

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yet another modern building, this towns gone to the dogs in the last few years, its as bad as the 60s mistakes in lloyds bank and princess house etc

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