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Tricorn Centre
The Tricorn Centre in Portsmouth was built in the mid-60s on a wave of optimism. In 1967 it won a Civic Trust award for "exciting visual compsition".
Owen Luder, Architect for the E. Alec Colman Group of Companies designed it as Portsmouth's "Kasbah Centre", or a "Market-In-The-Sky". There was ground level shopping grouped around a central square with 35 shop units and parking for 400 cars.
But the following year it was voted Britian's fourth ugliest building in a poll of 500 designers. For the next four decades, the concrete shopping centre was dogged with such an image. www.bbc.co.uk/southampton/webcams/tricorn.shtml
Tricorn Centre
The Tricorn Centre in Portsmouth was built in the mid-60s on a wave of optimism. In 1967 it won a Civic Trust award for "exciting visual compsition".
Owen Luder, Architect for the E. Alec Colman Group of Companies designed it as Portsmouth's "Kasbah Centre", or a "Market-In-The-Sky". There was ground level shopping grouped around a central square with 35 shop units and parking for 400 cars.
But the following year it was voted Britian's fourth ugliest building in a poll of 500 designers. For the next four decades, the concrete shopping centre was dogged with such an image. www.bbc.co.uk/southampton/webcams/tricorn.shtml