Escondido Police/Fire Building
Nominated on 16/08/2009 • Category: Architecture • 0 Comments
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- Project Address: Center City Parkway & Decatuer Way, Escondido
- Project Owner/ Developer: CITY OF ESCONDIDO
- Owner Contact Name/ Email: Joyce Masterson, Assistant to the City Manager jmasterson@escondido.org
- Project Architect/ Designer: WLC Architects, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Ugly as sin - Does not fit into the surrounding community nor does it have any style or flair. A gathering of old refrigerator boxes would have more or a design concept than this building block plain jane. And who approved this design(?) Guess it looked better on paper than it does sitting on the corner of centre city parkway - old 395 - in what is suppose to be a historic part of california.
Project Awarded
"The Escondido Police and Fire Headquarters is presented here as another missed attempt at using architecture to engage a community. Instead the building decided to present another blank wall in what can be described as conduct unbecoming of an officer."