It is indeed the blue tower development. I think it might look ok when finished, but others will definitely disagree with me. I can keep an eye on progress, because I can see the tower from my office window...
Let me get this strait then...so what exactly are they doing? Are they going to put some white cladding over it or have they just painted it blue instead?
The tower is getting a complete revamp inside and out and there is a huge new building at the rear of the complex, to bring the total scheme up to 400,000 square feet.
This would have looked so much better in white with seemless cladding. Instead we have a shocking blue tower with grey windowframes and solid window panels that ultimately make it look like a giant connect 4 game.
The March minutes from the Leicester Regeneration Company's board meeting (which can be seen HERE in section 5.4.1) have suggested that they might be willing to pay to a repaint of the building.
[Quoting Candida] Thankgod for that. They say some things grow on you in time. This building just makes me feel worse! I wonder if there will be a rush for buying the apartments!!
At least the rest of the structure looks nice. I quite like the idea of having a casino & hotel inside this building, within easy reach of the train station
Here's the pic I posted in the original Leicester thread so you can all see what we're on about actually I think the colour scheme has had the desired effect (in a way) as it's attracted lots of attention
I quite like the silver clad bit of the development and has anyone noted the top-floor Juliet balconies on the railway station car park side. I think they look quite nice-however, the main tower still looks like an ugly sibling to the building. :lol:
I saw the thing again this time in glorious sunshine. Normally even crap buildings look good in the sun. Not this one. It looked even worse.
It's obvious the developer took a trip along the M6 and saw the Urban Splash FOrt Dunlop redevelopment, had an "Aha" moment and promptly decided to change the colour scheme - and just to add pizzaz stick candy coloured sweets in place of windows. I wouldn't be surprised if the scheme architect then took a lift to the roof and jumped off straight after.
By the way the Fort Dunlop redevelopment looks fantastic. Mr Zarbafi couldn't even get the right shade of blue. What a plonker.
Any news that Mr Zarbafi was struck down by a swarm of (blue) flies.... well a man can dream can't he!
I really hate him he is the worst kind of cheapskate parasite developer. The council MUST surely have some powers to change it. For fxxk sake you can't even build a effing convervatory without planning approval. This may sound controversial but I predict whatever we do in spending billions to change the face of Leicester we will always be mocked as the city with that "shitty blue tower with those arsewipe stupid windows", if anyone thinks they look good they need to change their prescription!!!!hno:
its f*****g blue, that bastard needs his head kicking in, thistle hotels or whoever it is who is renting space surely cant have seen the building. ive even heard the rest of it is a shit hole under the scaffold.
what a **** that zargreb guy is, hope someone pushes him of the top of his ridiculus tower, and his whole family aswell
lol braunstone geezer I 'm sure his family disapprove of that felt tip coloured splatter job. I would help you push him off the top of the building though. Aren't there any laws for this sort of thing!?!?! Where are you now Civic Society!! I get the feeling they are loving it so that it can used as a beating stick for any future development over 3 storeys!!! Conspiracy theories abound....I think the CIA are behind this paint job...its the only explanation!
I'm sure you're all going to jump down my throat when I say this, but I'm actually getting used to it now. I know... it's defeatest mentality but it's here to stay unless an earthquake brings it down, so we may as well stop whining. My main concern before regarding the windows was that they seemed to be white, but in fact they're actually dark grey. And the solid panels make it look colourful, although tinted glass would have been a lot better. Yes, it looks rather tacky as a whole but as we're going to have to live with it we can either ignore it or look at the positives. I'm looking forward till the low-rise element is finally unveilled and the scaffolding at the top of the tower is dismantled.
I'm sorry Xtremegamer I can't accept it. The whole point of the regeneration is to attempt (somewhat) the restoration of a human and more visually appealing city centre after the mistakes of the previous efforts. St Georges Tower is one of the most visible and prominent mistakes - and now it's like de ja vu!!!
extreme gamer, tell me more of this earthquake you talk about,
mosseeds, you got it spot on, the blue tower isnt progress, its just some greedy wanker who got a job lot of blue paint on the cheap,who couldnt give a shit about leicester or its people
i hate the **** so much,
i am going to graffiti all over it, they cant possibly prosecute me as mr zargy bargy **** face has already defaced it.
I noticed that the rest of the development, looks a bit shite as well! The "officey" bit of the tower has some really cheap windows put in. This development is a serious right off!
The windows there putting in seem to be the cheapest they could find. Cant wait for a goverment department to move in hno:
Yeh I've been sceptical about the development under wraps because there seems to be an awaful lot of grey plasticky panelling.
Oh dear...the key cornerstone of regeneration was giving the new arrivals to the city a nicer welcome. INstead they come out of the station confronted by a giant duplo block!
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