Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Wed Sep 08, 2010 2:06 pm  

Iain wrote:

Take a look at some (most) of the buildings they are responsible for and you may rethink that. I'm struggling to think of any Peel commissioned building that has had any serious architectural plaudits.

I can only go off Media City and the Trafford Centre and they both look pretty impressive to me.

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Wed Sep 08, 2010 2:14 pm  

theredshed wrote:

I can only go off Media City and the Trafford Centre and they both look pretty impressive to me.

I'd beg to differ on the architectural merit front. Tack wins outright at the TC, and "budget" wins outright at MC - check out the laughably small windows in the residential building, and the lovely Eastern Bloc architecture of the Holiday Inn. The Salford Uni buildling is reasonable. The older Victora building on the Quays and its newer neighbour are also fugly.

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Wed Sep 08, 2010 2:21 pm  

Iain wrote:

and the lovely Eastern Bloc architecture of the Holiday Inn.

That's exactly what I said when we were down there Sunday morning, infact more than one of the buildings looked like Tirana in the 60's!

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Wed Sep 08, 2010 2:30 pm  

Iain wrote:

I'd beg to differ on the architectural merit front. Tack wins outright at the TC, and "budget" wins outright at MC - check out the laughably small windows in the residential building, and the lovely Eastern Bloc architecture of the Holiday Inn. The Salford Uni buildling is reasonable. The older Victira buisling on the Quays and its newer neighbout are also fugly.

That's your opinion Iain and I respect that. In my view the TC is the most palatial shopping centre I've ever seen either side of the atlantic. As for the holiday Inn surely that design was influenced by a budget from a budget hotel chain. You wouldn't build it to the spec of the Lowry Hotel to charge Holiday Inn room rates it just wouldn't stack financially.

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Wed Sep 08, 2010 2:50 pm  

For those of you who don't know the buildings in question there are a few decent shots on Here

For those of you who don't know the buildings in question there are a few decent shots on Here

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Thu Sep 09, 2010 12:08 pm  

Been passed the site this morning and there's now a sign up declaring it as the 'Site of The City of Salford Community Stadium, home of The Salford City Reds'

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Thu Sep 09, 2010 12:53 pm  

Salfords Finest wrote:

Been passed the site this morning and there's now a sign up declaring it as the 'Site of The City of Salford Community Stadium, home of The Salford City Reds'

Pictures, we need pictures

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Fri Sep 10, 2010 2:35 pm  

Pickles is throwing his weight about with reguards new stadia http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-ma ... r-11262335

Pickles is throwing his weight about with reguards new stadia http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-ma ... r-11262335

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Fri Sep 10, 2010 2:52 pm  

Bigpev wrote: Pickles is throwing his considerable weight about with reguards new stadia http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-ma ... r-11262335 Typo etc.. It's the Tesco issue that's led to Lancs being called in, not the stadium itself. Wonder if it's anything to do with Tesco donating money to the last Labour administration? The retail element of our site has already been through a public inquiry for approval and as I've said before, if they forced to through another inquiry it would be spending public money on the same thing again - another inquiry with no opposition to the plans - surely that would be against the ethos of cutting public spending.

Bigpev wrote: Pickles is throwing his considerable weight about with reguards new stadia http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-ma ... r-11262335 Typo etc.. It's the Tesco issue that's led to Lancs being called in, not the stadium itself. Wonder if it's anything to do with Tesco donating money to the last Labour administration? The retail element of our site has already been through a public inquiry for approval and as I've said before, if they forced to through another inquiry it would be spending public money on the same thing again - another inquiry with no opposition to the plans - surely that would be against the ethos of cutting public spending.

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Fri Sep 10, 2010 3:38 pm  

So the Condems have been back from their summer hols all of a week and we here of yet more sweeping cuts, the privatisation of Royal Mail, an independent study revealing that the north west will suffer the most from the new governments economic reform policies and now we have Pickles interfering with Lancs CC's stadium redevelopment.
Very concerning!