O/T idle thoughts on Leeds architecture

[SimonB]

Eric, further afield, what do you make of The Interlace in Singapore? Only recently became aware of it, and find myself surprised at liking it quite a lot.

(it's only a model...)

I once stayed in a hotel shaped like a typewriter

[Blackwhite]

Bookshop.

[OWETB]

The world famous 'Leeds Chinatown'

[JimbobMaloney]

Long time lurker, first time poster.

Thought some of you cunts would be interested in having a look at this;

https://southbankleeds.co.uk/

[eric olthwaite]

Long time lurker, first time poster.

Thought some of you cunts would be interested in having a look at this;

https://southbankleeds.co.uk/

Speaking as an architect, I bloody hate architects really.

There's so much of this vaguely modern-y vaguely brick-y stuff going up everywhere. It's destroying any sense of individual locality. But on the one hand I'm not a fan of gratuitous wackiness and on the other I can't be doing with inoffensive banality either.

Dunno what the answer is. Maybe I should just give up.

[Wakefield White]

Long time lurker, first time poster.

Thought some of you cunts would be interested in having a look at this;

https://southbankleeds.co.uk/

The second photo down is either a photo of the NYC high line or an architects impression of an elevated garden that is an exact replica of the high line. Leeds isn't New York, let's have some original thinking!

[Devi]

Architecture aside, and speaking as a comms design cunt, the website itself is a thing of beauty.

5/7

[eric olthwaite]

Long time lurker, first time poster.

Thought some of you cunts would be interested in having a look at this;

https://southbankleeds.co.uk/

The second photo down is either a photo of the NYC high line or an architects impression of an elevated garden that is an exact replica of the high line. Leeds isn't New York, let's have some original thinking!

It is indeed a photo of the High Line. Looking at this further, it's one of those cut'n'paste jobbies to give you a flavour of what might be.

Basically, the bottom line is that it's LCC saying, 'Look, it's all a bit shit round here and it doesn't really hang together as an identifiable area in any meaningful experiential way, but we'll give it a snazzy brochure to generate interest and hopefully drag a bit of investment, and we'll see what shakes out whilst we try and think of a plan'.

Visuals are toss, though.

[eric olthwaite]

Related, but I don't know if anyone has had a butchers at HS2?

There's a lot of peculiar things about HS2, but I'm really not clear why you'd go to all that bother then terminate the line half a mile from City Station and Queen's Square.

[Mustafaster]

Long time lurker, first time poster.

Thought some of you cunts would be interested in having a look at this;

https://southbankleeds.co.uk/

Speaking as an architect, I bloody hate architects really.

There's so much of this vaguely modern-y vaguely brick-y stuff going up everywhere. It's destroying any sense of individual locality. But on the one hand I'm not a fan of gratuitous wackiness and on the other I can't be doing with inoffensive banality either.

Dunno what the answer is. Maybe I should just give up.

I hear you brother.
Enzo has designed this utter monstrosity smack on the seafront in the centre of Santander. Takin the piss if you axe me.

Due to open next month.

[Blackwhite]

Ah, come on Eric, it's better than London or Paris: I quite like nearby stations at walkable distance. And I bet it saves a fucking mint.

[eric olthwaite]

Ah, come on Eric, it's better than London or Paris: I quite like nearby stations at walkable distance. And I bet it saves a fucking mint.

I dunno, considering the cost and damage caused by bringing HS2 into Euston - which is a pretty dumb idea anyway - knocking down a couple of unremarkable blocks of flats to get the new station within a hundred yards of the existing one seems like summat or nowt.

[eric olthwaite]

I hear you brother.
Enzo has designed this utter monstrosity smack on the seafront in the centre of Santander. Takin the piss if you axe me.

Due to open next month.

*Renzo

In fairness, the visuals look a bit better than the one shot you put up.

[moscowhite]

HS2 Station: people up here had the same thought. Pretty sure that's the old plan; the current idea is to combine City Station and HS2 into one big terminal.

Also on South Bank, Vastint (property arm of Ikea) bought the old Tetley site, have begun posting their masterplan layouts this week, based on the ideas the council were pushing in that website above. As far as I understand it they've not got a good track record with Stratford (aka Strand East) that has not moved beyond flash visuals for years, but here we are anyway:

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/for ... -1-8152465

[Son of Leeds]

Anyone had a peek at Victoria Gate yet? Stylish design drawing on the visual imagery of the fin-de-siecle arcades, or just another sleek shopping centre?

[dirty leeds]

Architecture aside, and speaking as a comms design cunt, the website itself is a thing of beauty.

5/7

They changed the sideways scroll thingy to plain ole downward. Bastards.

[Blackwhite]

What says you, Olthwaite?

Rotating shields of bronze tubes

[Tycipa]

What says you, Olthwaite?

Rotating shields of bronze tubes

Tom Heatherwick is an inspirational genius. Lovely buts nuts.

[eric olthwaite]

I'm sure we've been here before, but I fucking loathe Heatherwick. Toytown bullshit.

I guess what interests me in design is how you react to something the hundredth time you see it. Heatherwick's all about the one time immediate impact. It's like meeting a bloke who tells you the same joke, everyday, forever.

[Tycipa]

I'm sure we've been here before, but I fucking loathe Heatherwick. Toytown bullshit.

I guess what interests me in design is how you react to something the hundredth time you see it. Heatherwick's all about the one time immediate impact. It's like meeting a bloke who tells you the same joke, everyday, forever.

I'm sure he has a high opinion of your body of work.