Mr Blue Sky wrote:Tŷ Admiral - which is 11 floors of offices plus a double height ground floor and a double height top floor (so in effect as tall as a fifteen story office block) is 220,000 square feet.
It occupies a site with a footprint roughly 60% the size of the vacant land on Park Street. If the whole of the footprint is built on then I'd estimate that the new building of 270,000 sq ft will be about 9 storeys high - a double height ground floor with seven or eight storeys above.
So no tower I'm afraid.
When I posted this and made my calculations based on Ty Admiral, little did I know thst what would eventually emerge was Son Of Ty Admiral. At last the New Cardiff Vernacular has been defined - and it looks like tax and insurance offices. I think that it was Dic Mortimer who said that Ty Admiral looked like a convection heater and in a way these buildings mirror the Senedd in that they are associated with hot air (the Senedd building has some sort of eco turbine on its roof).
Is it architecture to amaze, inspire or thrill? I think not. But it does impress in a very safe, bland way. Let's hope we get a good bus station.