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I drove down Canterbury Street in Hillfields today and you can see the top of the car park from there. I can't wait until they start cladding it and I'm also starting to wonder why I'm so excited about a car park lol!
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Yea, the cladding makes it. I'm not overly keen on the cladding on the new city college car park (too messy!), but this one really looks good.
I saw that for the first time the other day, it just looks like a skeleton. Car parks should be more like the lower precinct, bp and the new uni park, in other words covered up.
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Yea, the good thing about this scheme is that they clearly put a bit of thought into the car parks design and it really shows. Hopefully this could help set a design standard for future car parks in the city.
Looking good. Went past the new student centre site and boarding is starting to go up around the site. Looks like they will be starting any day now.![]()
Yes, I noticed yesterday that more hoardings had gone up around the Jordan Well site, and there are also some diggers and other machinery sat there.
I have a friend in the construction industry who told me that a start day was imminent. Pretty soon the skyline will be filled with cranes along the eastern route in/out of the city. Severn Trent behind the courts, central campus building on Jordan Well and then down to the new car park at Gosford Street.
If they crack on with Far Gosford Street then there may be even more cranes on the skyline!
I have a friend in the construction industry who told me that a start day was imminent. Pretty soon the skyline will be filled with cranes along the eastern route in/out of the city. Severn Trent behind the courts, central campus building on Jordan Well and then down to the new car park at Gosford Street.
If they crack on with Far Gosford Street then there may be even more cranes on the skyline!
The uni are goin to try to get rid of that tyre place.
http://wwwm.coventry.ac.uk/university/masterplan/Pages/Timeline.aspx
Look at 10 years plus.
http://wwwm.coventry.ac.uk/university/masterplan/Pages/Timeline.aspx
Look at 10 years plus.
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And let's hope Radisson Edwardian soon as well.Yes, I noticed yesterday that more hoardings had gone up around the Jordan Well site, and there are also some diggers and other machinery sat there.
I have a friend in the construction industry who told me that a start day was imminent. Pretty soon the skyline will be filled with cranes along the eastern route in/out of the city. Severn Trent behind the courts, central campus building on Jordan Well and then down to the new car park at Gosford Street.
If they crack on with Far Gosford Street then there may be even more cranes on the skyline!
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There is also a decorating centre behind the tyre place as well. No one will miss that either.
With that plot of land plus the site of the Gulson clinic behind it should give the uni enough land for another large building.
If/when the Tyre Place does get demolished, I would personally like to see a series of smaller buildings constructed up to the road (rather than set back as the Tyre Place is now). In other words I'd like to see the street line restored to link Gosford Street and Far Gosford Street. Something around 3-4 storeys would work well. I hope they don't build another huge block like the library or the new university car park. There is room at the rear of the Tyre Place (moving towards Gulson Road) for more large scale buildings, but I think the Far Gosford Street frontage should be far more sympathetic in scale and in character. No metal or plastic clad buildings there thank you very much!
For a while now I have been wanting to have a tinker rond with a CAD programme that allows you to create mock up small scale masterplans or even artists impressions.
Does anyone know of a programme which is fairly user friendly and relatively inexpensive? I seem to remember that one of you guys did a CAD style plan for the New Union Street / Greyfriars Church area of Coventry, showing how you would open up the street towards Fords Hospital.
Does anyone know of a programme which is fairly user friendly and relatively inexpensive? I seem to remember that one of you guys did a CAD style plan for the New Union Street / Greyfriars Church area of Coventry, showing how you would open up the street towards Fords Hospital.
I hope they build a skyscraper. IMHO far gosford street still looks shit, even after the "masterplan" regeneration. I know it isnt finished but it will always look grotty down there!! I just hope they replace the tyre place with some that looks good! And not build from bloody red bricks.
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