The architects for Wellington Business Park were DLA from Manchester. DLA have completed many buildings with much design merit.
Industrial/Commercial buildings of this type have been honed and refined for decades. The brief would have been very tight indeed without much room, or call for, architectural expression.
It's a light industrial park offering cost-effective space to get business going in the area. Architecture with a capital A here just wouldn't work - in fact, would put some tenants off.
Buildings must do a job. Sometimes part of that job is to look exceptional or even just good. Sometimes not. This building has a good BREEAM rating (is energy efficient) and no doubt performs on many other levels.
I'm sure DLA did a good job to meet the brief - anything else and they may have been called for messing about instead of getting the job done.
Sometimes you can't win. Other times you must lose.
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Very little modern housing has an architect within a hundred miles of them. More's the pity.
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As construction prices have increased, so houses have got ever smaller to stay even vaguely affordable. The Parker Morris standards were meant to be a minimum not a guide. Now they've been dropped, they're an aspiration.
On the plus side they're warmer and cost less to run but in the old days you'd just put a jumper on, so...
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