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Originally Posted by Gayle
I agree, it's not the most attractive of facades but I just thought that its age and past usage might have qualified it to be listed. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to make a case for it, I'm glad it isn't.
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As you say, it's good it isn't, otherwise there would have been a whole hosts of problems with the current work to turn it into an arts centre.
Old isn't always good, and worth saving.
I hate bland, toy town generic architecture. Think what was built on the old out door market. Naff.
Personally I'd have listed the old sixties outdoor market, with it's curved concrete roof, and abstract panels The old fish market, with it's kitsch mosaic. Even the old space age loo in Union Street. At least they were unique, and very of thier time. Unlike Prince Charles's vision of new builds, that everything should be a pastoral mish-mash of quaintness.
Yuk.