Tue Nov 28, 2017 11:49 am
As far as I can see, the only change is from bronze to red cladding. The white cladding looks exactly the same as in the original renders.So I don't know why the white bits are causing so much fuss now.
More broadly, though,I suspect this building is going to look pretty dire – and illustrates, yet again, the limited vision of those who seek height for height sake. I simply cannot see the point of littering Cardiff with loads of crappy tall buildings – which is pretty well what has happened to date and, if this one is anything to go by, looks set to continue.There seems to be a naive hope that each new tall building will, this time, be the real thing. I predict, now, that Hope Street will look shitty (or at the very least, exceedingly mediocre), too. Those who become almost incontinent at the prospect of any tall building really should be addressing some of these issues – what should they be built of, what should they look like, where should they be built and so on. But beyond "great –here's another tall building" and "it doesn't look anything like the renders" there seems to be nothing.