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The redevelopment of The Old Square/Tesco/Market. The 'gap' where Tesco was after the demolition of the store. Visible in the background is the back of the clock tower on the entrance to the Old Squre shopping arcade. This space is largely taken up with the new Primark store which opened toward the end of 2015. Not sure if the 'taken on' date is correct, it seems longer ago than that!
I was disappointed to see that the re-development of my old college, Building and Printing, Glasgow had been stopped. I could live with the current state of the building as part of a development process, but now that it’s been abandoned you wonder what the effects of time, weather and graffiti merchants will have it looking like in say, a years time - all of this assumes the lack of a mysterious Glasgow fire.🔥 #glasgow #mysteriousfire #collegeofbuildingandprinting #glasgowcollege #redevelopment #glasgowcity #glasgowcitycentre
Artist's impression showing Chamberlain Square following the Paradise Circus redevelopment, which will be renamed Paradise
The Spinnaker Tower 08/09/2012 10h35
A shot from right under the tower near the Burger King and Subway.
The Spinnaker Tower
Spinnaker Tower is a 170-metre landmark tower in Portsmouth, England. It is the centrepiece of the redevelopment of Portsmouth Harbour, which was supported by a National Lottery grant. Its shape was chosen by Portsmouth residents from a selection. The tower, designed by local firm HGP Architects and the engineering consultants Scott Wilson and built by Mowlem, reflects Portsmouth's maritime history by its being modelled after a sail. After several years of delays and cost overruns, it was opened on 18 October 2005.
The tower, at a height of 170 m above sea level, is 2 1⁄2 times as high as Nelson's Column, making it the tallest accessible structure in the United Kingdom outside London. The tower is visible for miles around Portsmouth, changing the horizon of the area. It can be seen from the Isle of Wight, and even the Manhood Peninsula.
The tower represents sails billowing in the wind, a design accomplished using two large, white, sweeping steel arcs, which give the tower its spinnaker sail design. The steelwork was fabricated by Butterley Engineering. At the top is a triple observation deck, providing a 350° view of the city of Portsmouth, the Langstone and Portsmouth harbours, and a viewing distance of 37 kilometres (23 mi). The highest of the three observation platforms, the crow's nest, has a wire mesh roof, allowing visitors to be in the elements. Windows extend to above head height, so it is not possible to get a view unobstructed by glass. The glass floor is the largest in Europe. The tower has a design lifetime of 80 years.
The design is similar to the Burj Al Arab in Dubai, whose structure is a little less than twice as tall at 323 metres.
Planning began in 2000, and construction began 2001, and was completed in mid-2005, due to repeated delays and extra funding requests by the builders Mowlem. This was six years later than the planned opening date of 1999, chosen to coincide with Millennium celebrations. The tower, originally called Portsmouth Millennium Tower, was renamed Spinnaker Tower.
Once open, the tower attracted crowds in excess of expectations, despite only the internal lift working since opening, with over 600,000 people visiting the tower the first year. It is one of a number of observation towers around the world that have become popular, including Vancouver's Harbour Centre, Toronto's CN Tower, Blackpool's Tower and Shanghai's Oriental Pearl Tower.
Facts:
Construction Started: 2001
Completed: 2005
Heigth: Antenna Spire 170 meters, Roof 110 meters, Top Floor 105 meters
Elevators: 2
[ Source and much more information and backgrounds: Wikipedia - Spinnaker Tower ]
Pacific View Elementary School was closed a number of years ago due to changing demographics in its coastal Encinitas neighborhood. It's been vacant - and deteriorating - ever since, as the school district and community debate the site's future.
Title: Men working in building
Creator: Boston Redevelopment Authority
Date: circa 1955-1975
Source: Charlestown Urban Renewal project, Boston Redevelopment Authority photographs, Collection # 4010.001
File name: R55_0067
Rights: Copyright City of Boston
Citation: Boston Redevelopment Authority photographs, Collection # 4010.001, City of Boston Archives, Boston
Title: Mayor John Collins presenting citation to unidentified couple
Creator: Boston Redevelopment Authority
Date: circa 1955-1975
Source: Charlestown Urban Renewal project, Boston Redevelopment Authority photographs, Collection # 4010.001
File name: R55_0069
Rights: Copyright City of Boston
Citation: Boston Redevelopment Authority photographs, Collection # 4010.001, City of Boston Archives, Boston
Sunday 3rd August 1975. These buildings, vacant and boarded up ready for demolition, were subsequently reprieved. They still stand.
Recent years have seen much redevelopment in the region, making cranes a familiar site on the skyline.
College Green, Bristol, Wednesday 7th March 1973. Demolition of the mighty CWS building has come to an haitus. The upper floors and clock tower have gone, but work did not resume until April 1974. Demolition was completed in October but the site remained vacant until Broad Quay House came in 1981. The long building in the middle distance, with its fancy domed frontage, is a derelict quayside shed. The modish shops, restaurants, and cinema of the "Watershed" were some years in the future. On the far side of the City Centre, on Broad Quay, the Garrick's Head public house is still standing. It was removed for an extension of the Bristol & West Building Society's head office. A hold-up begins to form as traffic bound for Park Street stops to let a car out of Deanery Road. If ever a road junction needed a set of traffic lights it was this one. None were ever provided, but a mini-roundabout appeared during the last few years before Deanery Road was pedestrianised and its traffic sent around Anchor Road. On the far side of the road is what had once been the wall of the churchyard of St Augustine-the-less. The church had been demolished in the early 1960s. By this time the burial ground was an entanglement of brambles and Buddleia ...as it remained until disappearing under an extension of the Swallow Royal Hotel, or whatever it's called these days.
It is lunchtime and the streets are busy. In the right foreground are two ladies who look as though they might belong to that tribe of senior female office administrators who, in those days, were such a formidable influence in the life of offices up and down the land, reducing many a young typist or office junior to quivering terror. Did they perhaps work at the Freemasons' Hall or the Royal Workshops for the Blind, around the corner in St George's Road; or Bauers the furriers, in Park Street Avenue; or the Folk House; or one of Park Street's long-established but doomed businesses ...Churchill's, Newberry & Spindler, Perez, the Pied Piper Bookshop? Of the old firms only Chilcott's and the Bristol Guild of Handicraft remain.
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Construction to redevelop the MTV studio site in Camden Town, North London.
Temporary structure to support the existing satellite transmission dishes.
Complete demolition of frontage so that a newer, modern site can be developed behind.
Panorama of 10 pictures combined in Autopano.
Leica M8, Summarit 35
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Title: Haverhill Street
Creator: City of Boston
Date: circa 1957
Source: Charlestown Urban Renewal project, Boston Redevelopment Authority photographs, Collection # 4010.001
File name: R55_0140
Rights: Copyright City of Boston
Citation: Boston Redevelopment Authority photographs, Collection # 4010.001, City of Boston Archives, Boston
The building in this view had been occupied for a number of years by John Woods (haulier). It was constructed in the early 1880s as the tramway depot for the town original horse drawn trams which operated from about 1880 to 1901 Proof of its original use were still present when the premises were demolished in readiness for the Cardinal Park development in the form of the original tram tracks still being present. St Francis Tower can be seen in the background and the junction with New Cardinal St on the left. In 2014,if you were standing in this position, you would be on the eastbound carriageway of Grafton Way one way system round the Royal Mail building looking towards KFC and Cineworld cinema from the south east extremity of the Cardinal Park cark park.This Collection was donated by Dr Steeds.
n 1939 Dr Roger Steeds, general practitioner joined the three Staddon brothers who were in practice at 6 Silent Street. Just before the war, the building was threatened with demolition because of road widening. The practice moved to 18 Silent Street. It was said to be a purpose built building with three consulting rooms, dispensary, reception area and waiting room and caretaker’s flat. However, the building was wrecked by a bomb during the war but re-erected in 1946. After the war as each of the Staddon brothers retired, they were replaced in turn by Dr Roy Webb, Dr Sheila Hines and Dr Bunt Drabble. Dr Steeds retired In 1966.
The first Kingaroy Post Office opened by 1902 (a receiving office had been open from 1895) and was renamed Taabinga Village in 1905, when Kingaroy Railway Station office opened. This was renamed Kingaroy in 1907. The Taabinga Village office closed in 1929.
The foundation stone of the Kingaroy Soldiers' Memorial Rotunda was laid on 25 April 1922 (ANZAC Day) by the RSL president Sergeant Norman Booth. It was dedicated on 29 June 1932 by Major-General Sir Thomas William Glasgow.
The Royal Australian Air Force had a significant operational and training presence in the region during the Second World War, the first squadrons deploying to the town's airport about mid-1942. At least eight squadrons were based at RAAF Kingaroy the, together with No. 3 Initial Training School. Kingaroy R.A.A.F. Post Office was open from 7 August 1942 until 28 February 1946.
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Another look at Upper Maudlin Street. By Thursday 9th April 1981 the last leases had long lapsed and the buildings are another seven years advanced in dereliction. On the left, where a diabolical cigarette advertisement looks down on an empty site, a little chapel had lately been demolished. All the buildings survive, I think.
A view looking down from Wells Road to Bath Road, Totterdown, with Totterdown Bridge in the left distance, Wednesday 3rd March 1973 (see below). I think the houses and shops in Wells Road were mostly still standing at this date ...though they were all to be demolished during the next couple of months... and the shadow at the bottom edge must be that of buildings on the main road. The kerb is that of New Walls Road. Down below, a cluster of doomed buildings remain at the foot of what must be Angers Road. One looks as though it might once have been a chapel.
My thanks to jaseheeley, who has provided a modern approximation to this view at:
www.flickr.com/photos/7705990@N06/2305107656/in/set-72157...
A scene in Newcastle ...exactly where I can't remember... on Monday 31st July 1972. Evidently "comprehensive redevelopment" is afoot. The whole area is coming down, streets at a time. In the distance a bulldozer is at work, pushing walls over.
We're back into the work we're doing on documenting the market hall before it's redeveloped. This is the main reason for our visit, a view of the Assembly Room. This is taken on a 16mm lens on a full frame sensor.
Chesterfield Borough Council is redeveloping the Market Hall and replacing all the interior shopping areas and reconditioning much of the building. This will take from early 2012 to early 2013.
The Council has asked Chesterfield Photographic Society to record this change and you'll see lots of photos as time progresses.
The photos all appear in:
www.flickr.com/groups/1806033@N22/
Other flickr members are welcome to post photos, please see the Group description.
An aerial view of the redevelopment taking place at Bristol City Football Club's home ground Ashton Gate. Also in the bottom right of the frame, "Nelson Mandela House" from Only Fools and Horses.
Grimwade Ridleys wholesale chemists on the corner of Princes St (left) and Friars St (right) This northerly view shows Frasers furnishers in the centre background on the corner of Museum St. The Willis Faber building now stands here. This Collection was donated by Dr Steeds.
n 1939 Dr Roger Steeds, general practitioner joined the three Staddon brothers who were in practice at 6 Silent Street. Just before the war, the building was threatened with demolition because of road widening. The practice moved to 18 Silent Street. It was said to be a purpose built building with three consulting rooms, dispensary, reception area and waiting room and caretaker’s flat. However, the building was wrecked by a bomb during the war but re-erected in 1946. After the war as each of the Staddon brothers retired, they were replaced in turn by Dr Roy Webb, Dr Sheila Hines and Dr Bunt Drabble. Dr Steeds retired In 1966.
Stanley Street, Easton, ran from Easton Road to Stapleton Road. Behind the camera it finished as a dead end, but there was an arched passageway for pedestrians to walk through to the busy shops in Stapleton Road. Off this passage was a doorway, and behind it a staircase leading to an upstairs room over a shop. Here a man had an office, and every Thursday morning during the late 60s I used to deliver his hand-towels.
At the Easton Road end everything had been demolished to make way for the huge Lawrence Hill roundabout, completed at about the time of this photo. The roundabout was to be part of the Council's precious Outer Circuit Road which, so far, remains only partially built.
A few houses remain standing in this view, but would not last much longer. Unauthorised car breaking is being carried out off right. The picture was taken on Friday 30th March 1973. By the late 70s Easton Sports Centre had arisen on the site.
The Royal redevelopment site in Wolverhampton.
The site of the former Royal Hospital and former Wolverhampton Tram & Bus Depot is to have housing built on the site.
The Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton was an acute general hospital in the All Saints inner city area of Wolverhampton.
The hospital was designed by Edward Banks in the classical style and built between 1846 and 1849 on land acquired from the Henry Vane, 2nd Duke of Cleveland. It was opened as the South Staffordshire Hospital but became the Wolverhampton and Staffordshire General Hospital in the second half of the 19th century. The internal layout rapidly became outdated when the pavilion system, where patients were separated by type of illness, was introduced at new hospitals in 1852. Additions included a new wing for in-patients as well as a new block for out-patients in 1872, a fever ward in 1873, a medical library in 1877, an additional two-storey in-patient wing in 1812 and the vast King Edward VII Memorial Wing in 1923. It was renamed the Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton in December 1928. A further block of in-patient wards was completed in the late 1930s.
The hospital closed in June 1997 with services being transferred to New Cross Hospital; the site was acquired for retail development by Tesco in 2001 but, after that development stalled in January 2015, the site was sold on to the Homes and Communities Agency for residential development in March 2016.
The remaining building of the former Royal Hospital is Grade II listed.
Listing Text
WOLVERHAMPTON
SO9198SE CLEVELAND ROAD
895-1/14/211 (South side)
04/06/91 Royal Hospital
GV II
Hospital. 1845, by Edward Banks; Edward VII memorial wing,
1912. Brick with ashlar dressings and slate roof. Classical
style. Formerly symmetrical range of 2 storeys and basement
and 15 bays with 3-storey, 5-bay, centre and pedimented end
pavilions, that to left replaced by 1912 wing of 5 x 7 bays.
Ashlar basement and Tuscan pilastrade on stone-coped brick
plinth, paired pilasters to pavilion and top blocking course;
centre has tetrastyle portico on antae. Basement has
segmental-headed windows with 16-pane sashes; other windows
have architraves and 12-pane sashes, those to ground floor
with pediments, those to 1st floor with eared architraves.
Entrance has consoled cornice with scrolled cresting,
overlight and C20 doors. Wing has similar details, but
panelled angle pilasters; distyle in antis portico, with iron
railings and later infill; treatment continued to 1st bay of
return but other 6 bays plainer. Right return and rear treated
similarly to facade, but with C20 additions, rear has Y-plan
wing. The hospital was the 1st major commission of a notable
Wolverhampton architect.
Listing NGR: SO9193998173
This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.
From Gordon Street near Steelhouse Lane.
From a series of home demolitions conducted by the city of Detroit in order to eradicate urban blight.