Monday, June 18, 2007

Get Carter

I think that 'Get Carter' is on our 'Action' list, is'nt it?

......................indeed it is

Anyway as you see the Gateshead multi story car park is about to come down.

....................take to the barricades!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Enclosed from BBC website.

Eyesore or gem: Gateshead car park

The maxim of beauty being in the eye of the beholder is no more true than in people's estimations of modern buildings. To mark Architecture Week, the Magazine is taking some of Britain's most controversial buildings to task.

It is known by different names. You will hear it referred to by those who wish to see it demolished as Gateshead multi-storey car park or the Trinity Centre car park. Those who wish to see it stay might call it the Get Carter car park.

To fans of brutalist architecture it is a genre-defining example made iconic both by its stark concrete and for the scene in the 1960s gangster flick when Michael Caine's character throws a corrupt businessman off the top.

But under a redevelopment plan, it is now set to be demolished and replaced by a Tesco supermarket, among other things. Here Gateshead native Father Michael Brown explains why it will not be missed by locals, and the Twentieth Century Society's Jon Wright insists it must be saved.

...................join in the fight Streeter Sleuths, and have the place
torn down.............or possibly..........kept up.


What say you???