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Why is it inappropriately located?
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How many reasons do you want?
1/Overshadowing of the Winter Garden at the time of year when the gardens need maximum light, ie winter, hence the name.
2/Dominating the view and environment of the city's finest Grade 1 listed building and from some of the most strategic points blocking the view of the Town Hall altogether.
3/Turning a section of Arundel Gate into a shady wind tunnel for a large part of the day.
4/Is in a part of the city that has no tall buildings other than the clock tower of the Town Hall and the spire of St. Marie's church so it basically sticks out like a sore thumb and therefore like a sore thumb is painful to look at and totally inappropriate.
I could go on about the lack of ornamentation, decoration and craftsmanship on the building that would help beautify it and at least try to blend it in with it's surroundings but I'm not in the mood for going on a rant although I can, in the future, see me doing a 9/11 on the monstrosity.
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It can be seen from almost all parts of the city now.
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And you think that's a good thing?!!!!
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The tallest buildings should be bang in the middle of a city centre, isn't that the whole point?
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Absolutely not! Why must they be in the centre of the civic centre? The civic centre should be about creating and preserving the historical environment and supporting the establishments and events that go to make the civic centre (as opposed to a commercial centre) the place that it is. The civic centre is the place for politics, leisure, entertainment, retail and religion. NOT for banking, big business and industry/manufacturing or housing.
To me this building looks as ridiculous and out of place as if you'd picked up the Forgemasters factory and put it on the same site.
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Where else would you expect to see tall buildings in this city, dare i ask?
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The place for tall buildings (which are usually either offices or flats) is close to the ring road or other main arterial routes that already have the increased density that you don't find in the civic centre. Even then the height should be strictly limited.
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Personally i wish there was more of a cluster of them. I suppose we'll have a mini-cluster once SPP3 is built, next to the nearly completed SPP2.
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I think the credit crunch will have a lot to say on that.
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It also think the tower will make for a great feature for people coming from the train station - excluding the dreadful cladding of course.
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What a stupid, weak argument. I've heard it before. It goes something like this; 'Er......It's difficult for people who are coming to the city for the first time to find their way from the railway station up the hill into the city centre so we need a big tall building to act as a 'marker' so that people can find their way around easier.'
What a load of rhetorical tosh. Two things really.
1/ Can't people read signs? Do they speak a different language from us in the rest of the country? Or worse still these outsiders may have to ask a (shock, horror)local for directions. We can't be having that now can we after all we want to be more like London where people on the streets don't talk to strangers because it's a scaaaaarrrrreeeeey thing to do.
G*d
us.
2/ If, as you say, you want a cluster of tall buildings in the centre then your 'landmark' building as a marker for people to find their way around takes a complete nosedive off the 32nd floor doesn't it?
