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RandomComment wrote:HalRobsonKanu wrote:HI there. Long time reader, first time poster here.
Slightly off topic from Maindy Road, but Cardiff University are also planning a major development on Park Place, the Centre for Student Life, which will effectively form a new entrance to the Student Union building. The building is scheduled for completion in 2019 and it looks as though a planning application will be submitted soon.
Further details here:
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/__data/assets/ ... boards.pdf
I'm not sure I like this actually - the image on slide 4 is a little bland in my view. OK, it hides the ugly Student Union. But I quite like the redbrick building housing Costa and Subway - which the report deems of "little value - and I think this would benefit from either being more interestingly modern to properly contrast with the older buildings nearby.. or more in keeping with their style. At the moment, its just a rather bland modern building which neither contrasts nor complements.
I quite like it! The red building is fine but I'm not sure it's really valuable. I like the pillars and hiding the SU from the Civic Centre can only be good. I'd wondered before if they might ever build a new Union but perhaps it's pretty functional.