Heritage campaigners slam Chapman Taylor plans for Coventry city centre
1/8 Image of proposed Coventry South development
Source: Chapman Taylor
Source: Chapman Taylor
Source: Paul Catherall
Source: Paul Catherall
Source: Paul Catherall
Source: Paul Catherall
Source: Paul Catherall
Source: Paul Catherall
Plans by Chapman Taylor to redevelop the centre of Coventry will destroy the city’s post-war identity, heritage campaigners have warned
The City Centre South regeneration scheme was announced in June by developer Shearer Property Group and an outline planning application was submitted to Coventry City Council last month.
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Revised plans for the 6ha site have dropped an earlier proposal for a department store in favour of more public space, alongside the scheme’s new homes, retail and leisure elements.
Kidderminster Civic Society s Michael Loftus and Nick Hughes in front of the concrete relief. Photo by Colin Hill A 320-METRE-LONG concrete sculpture in Kidderminster has been awarded Grade II listed status following a campaign by the local Civic Society. Known as the Great Wall of Kidderminster, the extensive concrete relief decorating the retaining wall from Worcester Cross to Worcester Road ring road will be placed on the List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. Kidderminster Civic Society was already putting together an application for listed status when the wall s designer William Mitchell passed away in January, aged 94.
Part of Kidderminster s Great Wall
Saarinen’s building before work began
David Chipperfield Architects’ redevelopment of the former US embassy in Grosvenor Square has taken a significant step forward with the appointment of a main contractor.
Multiplex has won what is being described as one of the biggest London building jobs to be awarded this year, according to Building Design’s sister magazine Building.
It revealed that the firm is now preferred bidder for Qatari Diar’s £400m scheme to turn Eero Saarinen’s former embassy on the west side of Mayfair’s Grosvenor Square into a luxury hotel, having beaten remaining rival Balfour Beatty.
SATIRICAL magazine Private Eye has weighed into the current rumpus over plans to redevelop Worcester’s historic Lowesmoor Wharf. And its intervention has echoes from the 1960s, when a national newspaper article forever blighted the city’s massive Lychgate scheme at the southern end of High Street. Back then a feature in The Guardian by Geoffrey Moorhouse described the wholescale clearance of slum/period (depending on your point of view) properties in streets only yards from the cathedral as “The Sack of Worcester”. And the phrase has stuck. Now the Nooks and Corners column in the Eye brands the plans for Lowesmoor Wharf “a huge, overbearing regeneration scheme”.