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Windsor Village Hall, Windsor, Florida (1989-1999)
by Léon Krier
(Scott Merrill and George Pastor: Construction and Site Architects)
(Photo by L.Krier/ S.Merrill/ G.Pastor)
"Occupying the focal point of major vistas
and avenues, and flanking a public square, the Village Hall is both a meeting hall and a symbol for the new community of Windsor,
at once its profane and sacred heart.
Rising on a podium, the thirty white pillars carry the steep roof well above the horizontal lines of town
center, houses, and walled gardens, forming a highly visible architectural and urban magnet.
Rather than offending the skyline of the town, it complements it with an essential component."
Windsor Village Hall and Piazza, Windsor, Florida
by Léon Krier (in association with Scott Merrill and George Pastor)
(Photo by Mike L. Waller)
"The simplicity of its internal and external
volumes differs with the articulate plasticity of houses,--its elevated porch, its multitude of doors and arched windows,
its very openess contrasting with the protective enclosures of private homes--, further enhance the public character of this
unique structure."
Windsor Village Hall , Windsor, Florida
by Léon Krier
(Photo by S. Merrill and G. Pastor)
"Much of the power of this building comes
from its ability to evoke a sense of "the other", not as a modernist might do, but by appropriating forms that are recognizably
ancient while not specifically referential."
David Gobel
Windsor Village Hall, Windsor, Florida
by Léon Krier
(Photo by S.Merrill and G.Pastor)
Windsor Village Hall, Section
"It impressed me as a truly remarkable
building: simple, yet monumental. Its purity of form and primitivism give it a timeless quality. The building is highly evocative,
or, perhaps more concretely, it invokes a nameless sense of the sacred. It has a mythopoeic quality."
David Gobel
Windsor Village Hall, Site Plan, Windsor, Florida
Project by Léon Krier
Associate Architects for Construction: Scott Merrill and George Pastor
Client: Galen and Hilary Weston (Toronto)
Windsor Village Hall, Side Elevation
"The monumentality of its scale, the unfamiliar
size and sheer repetition of its elements at once establish and proclaim its exceptional, its uniquely civic status, --as
shelter and symbol of the community."
Léon Krier
Windsor Village Hall, Side Elevation, Windsor, Florida
Léon Krier
(Photo by L.Krier/ S.Merrill/ G.Pastor)
Res Publica - Res Privata
Windsor Village Hall Square and Fountain
by Léon Krier
(Photo by S.Merrill and G.Pastor)
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