i believe you meant that it "respects the form of the central space and enhances the setting of the historic obelisk - recreating the circus as the public space it was intended to be [...by] creating an active and walkable edge [...and] reintroducing the traditional concave building structures that form the circle"
Just checked google maps and it seems to be a bit far from the emerging cluster which will be on the riverside. That being said though, I realised how rubbish some buildings on this road are and I would love to see some redevelopment around here.
A breath of fresh air from the metal/clad/glass/shiny school of thinking, plus it makes good on St George's Circus, making it more of a circus again :cheers:
Let's hope the crap on the same side behind it goes soon too.
Mclaren house is student accommodation, I would like to see it go but I doubt it will. The other sides are Victorian and a very dreary little eighties building.
^^ While I like the reintroduction of brick as an external material in new buildings (as well as the general improvements in basic design over the past few years) in a lot of them either the quality of the bricks themselves or the way in which they have been applied are/has been very poor (some even having parts of the facade falling to bits already!). That hotel on the corner however looked top notch when I walked past last week, so this Blackfriars Rd one should have a good chance of being as well.
Oh wow, this does look nice. I hope they don't do any cost-savings on the bricks later though, as in these sorts of designs everything comes down to the quality of the materials.
The building with the green looks like it's designed for a Waitrose to occupy.
that is a good question! i wasn't aware of these brick panels, and could explain the cheapness. the example above i was thinking of was sudsmith's bear lane project in southwark that in general i really liked, but bits of the facade were falling off
I've read somewhere that this building at potsdamer platz (architect Hans kollhoff ) used a lot of brick panels. But panels of good quality. I'm not sure if it was all the building or only the upper floors.
Brick panels can look ok, but they generally don't have the variation in tone to work on a design like this (although a custom designed product might). A block of flats is going up near me using grey brick panels, I'll try to grab a photo of it later. I doubt you'd be able to tell it's brick panels after it's complete.
Noreen, we are protesting against the solitary Barrett’s tower aren’t we so why are there 3 towers on our placards?
Shhh no one will notice.
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