redragon wrote:Can someone please tell me why this is a good thing? Anyone been to Barcelona, Paris?.....many successful European cities could be used as an example. High density doesn't need to equal tall buildings.
Barcelona and Paris have fantastic streets and squares of lined with historic buildings, built at a time when craftsmen (not cheapskate contractors) were employed by clients who really cared about how buildings looked. When these buldings were damaged by conflicts they were repaired and rebuilt in a similar style.
Sadly, Cardiff has chosen to knock down almost all of what the Luftwaffe missed. Now we have a city centre with little historic character, many brownfield sites and far too many cheap, hideouse post-War buildings. Some may disagree, but those who say that Cardiff never had the same architectural standard of say Dublin or Edinburgh really need to look through some history books or trawl through the record offices and see the architectural plans and photographs of Cardiff's lost buildings.
Cardiff needs to preserve what little remains but it should also embrace modern developments and do things that other UK cities either don't want to do or can't. Personally, I'd love to see Cardiff with a tall skyline, filled with quality tall building developments.