Author Topic: If you could demolish just one building in Mcr??  (Read 8590 times)

celeste

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Re: If you could demolish just one building in Mcr??
« Reply #30 on: 20:48:15, 28/11/12 »
That's assuming Wytchfynder hasn't got frostbite in Siberia :-\
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Re: If you could demolish just one building in Mcr??
« Reply #31 on: 11:33:00, 29/11/12 »
why has he gone there? He'll get frostbite everywhere
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Re: If you could demolish just one building in Mcr??
« Reply #32 on: 16:35:42, 29/11/12 »
His job ;D
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Re: If you could demolish just one building in Mcr??
« Reply #33 on: 16:22:56, 12/12/12 »
the Arndale Centre remains our biggest abomination

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« Reply #34 on: 19:20:26, 12/12/12 »
who designed it?
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Re: If you could demolish just one building in Mcr??
« Reply #35 on: 15:02:39, 19/12/12 »
I understand Lewis Womersley and Hugh Wilson designed the Arndale almond with the university precinct and the Hulme crescents amongst other notable mancunian buildings.

I'm gonna stick my neck out now and I'm fully prepared for the onslaught that might follow but a few of us love the Arndale, hotel Piccadilly and some of the other 60's icons dotted around. I'm in my 30's and buildings such as the Arndale have defined the city centre for us. Yes bill Bryson described it as the worlds biggest public toilet but its our public toilet. Some people hate the hotel Piccadilly but I have fond memories of sitting in the restaurant as a kid, watching the hustle and bustle of Piccadilly below. The Arndale was a wonderland to us as kids too. Maybe it's a generational thing but I really feel that just ripping down one building only to replace it with something I'm glass and steel that could be in anywhereville isn't progress at all. Lets celebrate what we have and celebrate it for what it is. Maybe not to everyone's taste but surely cladding it in fashionable modern clothes is denying the history of a building and its roots in local culture?

We are blessed in Manchester with an architectural legacy that many cities would be proud of whether it be a Victorian pile or a slender concrete structure. We wouldn't rip the central library or the midland hotel down (yes they are listed for very good reason) yet we seem happy to demolish pretty much anything from the 60's. take a look at the new architecture being built in the city centre. The best examples owe a debt of gratitude to their 60's forebears..


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« Reply #36 on: 15:11:04, 19/12/12 »
sorry don't like the arndale i remember before it was built i don't think there was anything else there it was looked forward to by many of our parents but even some of them were devastated, it was something completely unknown to us back then
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Re: If you could demolish just one building in Mcr??
« Reply #37 on: 15:12:41, 19/12/12 »
i thought it was sombody arn and somebody dale that's what i thought anyway
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Re: If you could demolish just one building in Mcr??
« Reply #38 on: 15:39:49, 19/12/12 »
If I remember 'arndale' does relate to a persons name. I remember reading about it somewhere.. Watch this space.. When I get home ill have a trawl..

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Re: If you could demolish just one building in Mcr??
« Reply #39 on: 16:09:33, 19/12/12 »
If I remember 'arndale' does relate to a persons name.


This got me interested.  I had a search in a book I have and it mentions two people who were property developers and formed the Arndale Property Trust - they were called Arnold Hagenbach and Sam Chippindale.  I googled this and Wikipedia mentions the same sort of thing.

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Re: If you could demolish just one building in Mcr??
« Reply #40 on: 16:12:39, 19/12/12 »
i thought it was sombody arn and somebody dale that's what i thought anyway

I think you were on to something there Julie ;)
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Re: If you could demolish just one building in Mcr??
« Reply #41 on: 16:43:21, 19/12/12 »
Carl beat me to it!  ;)

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« Reply #42 on: 16:47:44, 19/12/12 »
Carl beat me to it!  ;)


I hope you don't feel like I was sticking my nose in, as I know you said you'd have a look when you got home.  I remembered reading something about this myself a long time ago.

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Re: If you could demolish just one building in Mcr??
« Reply #43 on: 16:58:55, 19/12/12 »
Carl please  ;D
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Re: If you could demolish just one building in Mcr??
« Reply #44 on: 09:04:28, 20/12/12 »
Not at all Carl! Thanks for your input!

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