CZWG/SOUTH CENTRAL

摘要

'CZWG', Deyan Sudjic wrote back in 1988,'aren't Utopians. They are interested in doing what they can with the material at their disposal'. CZWG partner Piers Gough, for sure, has never regarded the adjective 'commercial', when used of his architecture, as negative criticism. 'We do it for money,' he quips. Gough is refreshingly adept at underselling his own work, though there has always been a serious architect behind the throwaway lines. Back in the '80s, CZWG made its name with colourful, pop, 'B-movie' architecture that could be broadly described as Post-Modernist - a term that has since lost currency and meaning. Its work remains decidedly expressive and unrestrained, but in a manner that now seems more mainstream. The recently completed housing project at Steedman Street, off south London's Walworth Road, certainly has none of the more obvious historical references and visual jokes of yesteryear.