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Still pretty new in February 2020. An upmarket shopping arcade with a John Lewis department store and a multi-storey car park.
Extract from Wikipedia
Meanwood Towers
Meanwood Towers, Leeds LS6 4PL
In the middle of an estate of inter-war semi-detached houses behind Stonegate Road stands a Victorian Gothic house, Meanwood Towers. Designed by Edward Welby Pugin, and built in 1866 - 1867, this private house was commissioned by Thomas Stewart Kennedy and was originally called Meanwood House. It had tall chimneys which were removed on safety grounds in 1969.
It used to house one of the world’s most famous Edmund Schulze organs, which has since been transferred to St Bartholomew’s church in nearby Armley[2]. The building has been converted into flats, however the major part of the structure still survives.
Extract from Wikipedia
Meanwood Towers
Meanwood Towers, Leeds LS6 4PL
In the middle of an estate of inter-war semi-detached houses behind Stonegate Road stands a Victorian Gothic house, Meanwood Towers. Designed by Edward Welby Pugin, and built in 1866 - 1867, this private house was commissioned by Thomas Stewart Kennedy and was originally called Meanwood House. It had tall chimneys which were removed on safety grounds in 1969.
It used to house one of the world’s most famous Edmund Schulze organs, which has since been transferred to St Bartholomew’s church in nearby Armley[2]. The building has been converted into flats, however the major part of the structure still survives.
Bet Orwell would have loved this!! Despite it's post war veneer this is actually a doctored to......er,hell, Parkinson Building from 2006 taken around the Blenheim Walk vicinity!!
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Background Info by Johnnyg1955 (cheers Johnny - James)
The university, or poly as it was then, ran out of money to complete the building, hence the girders sticking out of the building. The irony is that the School of Architecture was based in this building. Also, the Health & Social Care school lived here, running courses for environmental health inspectors in a building that when the weather got very bad, had sewers that backed up leaving the basement flooded in raw sewage.
The design of the department store walling seems to be equal parts expressionism and Vegas.
Still pretty new in February 2020. An upmarket shopping arcade with a John Lewis department store and a multi-storey car park.
The Victorian fantasy of prisons resembling Dark Castles to detract folk from being criminal........................didn't work!
A rather glamorously-clad building fitted into the long plot behind a house on the west side of Park Square. I'd like to see it on a sunny day.
Day 126/365 - "The Images Annual"
Centenary Bridge takes pedestrians over the river Aire from The Calls to Brewery Wharf on the waterfront area of Leeds city centre.
I am sick of self portraits now , it is time to involve some friends and strangers in my project.
Today just Leeds architecture shot.
No Strobes !